MySpace News And Information

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

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:41:57 +0000

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)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:41:00 +0000

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)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:41:00 +0000

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

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:08:30 +0000

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)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:43:43 +0000

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!)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:34:19 +0000

( 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)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:32:48 +0000

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)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:25:13 +0000

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

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:22:08 +0000

(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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MySpace is research place for busybody ‘Dr. Meg’ (The State)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:20:32 +0000

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 lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encourage safer Internet use. Her message read in part: “You seemed …

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