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Friday, June 09, 2006
The Pandora's Box of Social Networking - Meryl K. Evans, TechNewsWorld
Parents are urged to talk with their children about sex, drugs, smoking and other potentially risky behaviors. Now, frank discussions about online safety should be added to this repertoire, educators and child-protection advocates agree. MySpace claimed almost 5 million registered users in 2005, and that number has grown to exceed 70 million today. Though currently the most popular, MySpace is only one of a number of social networking sites online, and their attractiveness to teens and pre-teens has spawned worry over a growing Internet menace.
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