Another MySpace.com story. If you haven’t heard about MySpace.com then you probably don’t have any kids in middle school or high school yet. MySpace.com was an idea that went out to almost every high school across the country. The school system provides each student with their own webspace that they can use to develop their own websites. It was a nice idea, I suppose, to give every child, regardless of ability to have internet access in their homes, to have their own website. Level the playing field I guess. The only problem was that the schools didn’t even really seem to know how to fully teach the kids about the tool they had given them.

Now in this most recent story a kid posted jokes about a teacher on his MySpace site and is being sued by the teacher.

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Without knowing more than what is posted on the news site I am sort of on the kids side on this one. And, in general, when it comes to myspace.com, I am on the kids side. We have given them an incredible tool but we didn’t give them any guidance. Even if we don’t fully understand the technology and its full implications we need to keep our kids safe.