The Potential Dangers When Your Kids Use MySpace

MySpace.com makes it so easy to create virtual social communities online for teens and early twentysomethings to build friendship networks and to express their personalities.

This new digital media world allows teens to form "relationships" much on the Internet as they are in reality.

But Internet "relationships" are not the same as real-time relationships. They allow fantany to merge and confuse reality. They also can allow young people to make themselves vulnerable to dangers they would never face if supervised by a parent or responsible adult.

Dangers as serious as murder. The amount of violent crimes associated with MySpace in its short life history of less than 3 years is disturbing to parents and police officials alike.

The December issue of Wired writes about "Murder on MySpace":

With more than 120 million registered users on MySpace, odds dictate that some of them will die by violence. The ghoulish, encyclopedic Web site MyDeathSpace chronicles about 600 victims and more than 35 accused, convicted, or executed murderers with MySpace profiles.

As a parent, are you blocking MySpace access to your child? Do you know how to successfully block MySpace from your computer to protect your child? What about other social network community sites with their own tragic stories, such as Facebook or Xanga?

With Safekeeper, you can easily block these sites and prevent your teen's access to it on the family computer. Or, if you do approve access, you can monitor exactly what they do on it, receiving daily reports of all your teen's online activity.

Download the free 14-day trial of Safekeeper today and get peace of mind knowing you are being as strong a digital parent as you are a parent in real life.