My Space Vs. Gawker Stalker

It never ceases to amaze me how people can take a pretty good thing and twist it and turn it and trash it till its something other than what it was originally intended to be. I would hate to see that happen in the case of My Space and Gawker Stalker, two very interesting pop culture driven websites.

My Space dot com has been getting a lot of network air time of late with several spots devoted to inadequately supervised teens naively laying out a road map to their front doors for the estimated tens of thousands of pedophiles trolling the internet.

The good news is that government, law enforcement and many parents are now responding to the alarm and My Space management is showing sincere signs of compliance stating that they have already deleted hundreds of thousands of subscribers suspected of being under the required age of 18. An excellent start.

My Space started out as a free file sharing firm and has grown to the world’s 5th most popular English-speaking website and was bought in July 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation the parent company of Fox Broadcasting.

Finally a large portion of My Space evolved into an open planes virtual schoolyard with no eagle-eyed principal patrolling landscape. When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Lacking sufficient restraints, free to emulate pervasive high profile sexuality and hedonism, many teens have stepped right up to the pornographic threshold and many have definitely crossed the line of public decency and personal safety.