Police: MySpace Kids Should Be Watched
July 31, 2007 by Philip Dru
 Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Knowledge Driven Revolution
POLICE are advising parents to join social networking websites - such as MySpace and Facebook - to “spy” on their children.
The move follows growing concern by authorities at teenagers who post intimate information and photos of themselves on the sites for the world to see.
Police say the explosion in popularity of sites like MySpace (owned by News Corp, parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au)and Facebook has created a perfect hunting ground for stalkers and pedophiles.
In NSW in the past week, a teenage girl has run away with a stranger she met on the Internet and two others have threatened to leave home.
Parents have inundated the Department of Community Service’s (DoCS) Parent Line, distressed at the “secret lives” they believe their children are conducting online.
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