Archive for the 'MySpace News' Category

MySpace is research place for busybody ‘Dr. Meg’ (San Jose Mercury News)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named ‘Dr. Meg.’

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MySpace: All about sex, drugs and violence for teens, study says (Scientific American)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

More than half of teens on MySpace discuss or post images on their profiles of sex, drugs and violence, new research shows. But another study finds that reminding kids the info is public may tame the content they publish on the social-networking site. [More]

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MySpace: All about sex, drugs and violence for teens, study says (Scientific American)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

More than half of teens on MySpace discuss or post images on their profiles of sex, drugs and violence, new research shows. But another study finds that reminding kids the info is public may tame the content they publish on the social-networking site. [More]

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Teen profiles on MySpace rife with references to sex, alcohol use and violence (The Capital Times)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Want to visit the wild Web world of Madison adolescence? Np! (No problem!) Log into MySpace and type in a local zip code. A browse through the web pages and social lives of local teens is a virtual visit to their messy bedrooms — full of blaring music, colorful posters, gossip, and, in this age of exhibitionism spawned by cellphone cameras, hundreds and hundreds of photos. Only keep scrolling …

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MySpace Account Leads To Domestic Violence Act (WPBF Palm Beach)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Police say a MySpace account led to an act of domestic violence involving a Fort Pierce man and his girlfriend.

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Teen Sex, Drugs, Violence Plaster MySpace.com Networking Site (Bloomberg)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Sex, drugs and violence mark the majority of MySpace.com postings by 18-year-olds, a study found, potentially hurting job prospects and drawing sexual predators.

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Majority of teens discuss risky behaviors on MySpace, studies conclude (EurekAlert!)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

( Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center of Seattle ) In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children’s Research Institute and published in the January, 2009, issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents frequently discuss high-risk activities including sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence using MySpace, the …

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Many teens display risky behavior on MySpace: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

More than half of teenagers mention risky behaviors such as sex and drugs on their MySpace accounts, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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MySpace is research place for busybody ‘Dr. Meg’ (San Francisco Chronicle)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named “Dr. Meg.” The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of…

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MySpace is research place for busybody ‘Dr. Meg’ (INO News)

Monday, January 5th, 2009

(AP:CHICAGO) Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named “Dr. Meg.”

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