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Summer Camps Join Fray Against MySpace
The New York Times reports that now even summer camps are raising concerns about social networking sites such as MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook. Camps are worried about the ramifications of certain activities being associated with their summer programs after revealing pictures or postings are made online. Some camps are banning digital cameras, while others are instructing campers and parents to remove references to the camps from blog postings. Of course, the camps take the stance that they are merely trying to protect the children:
"The information that kids share today often is personal and private information that allows predators to track them down. We're also concerned about cyber-bullying."
Now anyone with a one time at band camp story can post video footage to the Internet. What great things MySpace has brought.
MySpace is a waste of time. There are plenty of other ways to communicate to friends that are superior. Forums, for example. Invisionfree loads faster than any myspace profile. Blogging seems to me to be the new hit way to talk to yourself. Some of these profiles have such malformed CSS they crash your browser.
It is the owner that crashes the system. If you are enough of an idiot to put 50 background processes in Windows you sho