The Anti-Myspace Petition
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Author: Zach Payne
Started: June 14, 2006, 11:38:27 pm
Target: Federal Communications Comission
Category: Civil & Human Rights
Supporters:

25
Goal:

500
Goal Progress:

5% Complete
Status

Active
Myspace.com. This website started out with the premise of establishing a community for young adults to come and meet up with each other. This website had several new features, including a page and blog for all members, as well as allowing the member to host and post photographs of themselves, and allow their friends to comment on them. Revolutionary indeed.

At first, myspace was restricted to individuals under sixteen years old. However, younger members who liked the site found a simple way around this: lie about your age… it’s not like they’ll care. Indeed, the myspace administration does not care to use common sense about their members. I know one girl, who was in my eighth grade English class. Her myspace profile said that she was 100 years old… interesting. However, it seems that her photographs served as a counter. How many 100 year olds would have color photographs of themselves as teenagers, wearing today’s fashions? Apparently, after some time, myspace understood they had a problem. What did they do? Instead of deleting the accounts of the perpetrators, they reduce the minimum age limit to the legal minimum of thirteen.

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I’ve watched the news over the past months, and it seems that every few days, myspace.com is mentioned… and not in a positive light. The massive high school protests against the anti-immigration bill were mostly arranged on myspace. Just this week, I saw two different news clips about this wonderful website. The first, talked about a teenager that fell in love with a man she met on myspace. The other was about a young man who decided to post a video of him getting into a fight, and then cocking a field rifle. The next day, he was caught with the rifle at school.

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I’m not trying to make myspace into a scapegoat for these negative Internet activities. However, myspace is a big part of the problem. Myspace has gravitated a great deal of teenage activity, and now violence, slander and sexual themes run rampant.

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It’s time to make the Internet safer. I’m not saying that complete censorship is the way to go, but we can’t have teenagers endangering themselves by posting photographs of themselves and giving away personal information like the school they attend, their address, phone number and other such information. It’s time to get the government involved, and to set up regulations concerning myspace and other related sites.

Zachary J. Payne
Whittier, CA
June 14, 2006




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dikweed said 11/25/07, 5:05 am (verified)
I will die before i have a myspace page. Fuk myspace and it's virtual high school of making friends and fuk buddies. The sad thing about myspace is that it's many people's first experience with the internet. Well, that's one sad thing. It's sad that people feel the need to create billboards of themselves so as surfers drive down the virtual highway, they are bombarded with a slew of different people all saying
#25

sir galahad said 11/19/07, 10:10 pm (verified)
myspace really sucks ass. it consumes my girlfriends life, and she even cheated on me once with a guy she met over myspace.but i've always hated it. its just a stupid way to escape reality. go to hell myspace whores!!
#24

RHY said 09/12/07, 6:08 am (verified)
thank god, myspace is always been a hatred of mine and like jacob i got so sick i googled 'anti-myspace'. The number of people who act very differently on it really bugs me and it really annoys me to see the amount of females teens that feel the need to post pictures of themselves in their underwear.. or bust shots etc. really gets to me the amount of decent people who turn into...basically whores.down with myspace.. and all the others like it in my opinion.--RHY--
#23

Irma Sandoval said 08/11/07, 6:52 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#22

jean claude dusse said 08/05/07, 5:44 am (verified)
Myspace sucks!
#21

rhino said 07/21/07, 2:09 pm (verified)
go to hell
#20

ivan said 06/19/07, 1:13 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#19

Sidney Barros said 02/26/07, 4:53 pm (verified)
Anyone can get a MySpace account an example is my 14 year old step daughter, who also got an yahoo email without parent consent. Common any programmer/Hacker can fix this. Meaning if all the big players wanted to they could really make it hard to get an account of any sort. Example require a credit card account - Verifying acct with name then issuing an email to the account owner , most bank and institutions require an email for Fraud and this should be shared with all internet institutions once the acct.# is given to an establishment such as MySpace, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail not so hard to require compliance. There are a great deal of many ways to make it work with common sense! No DL's won't work! Make kids worry make them see they are responsible for fraudently stealing there parents credit card info.
#18

Sidney Barros said 02/26/07, 4:53 pm (verified)
Anyone can get a MySpace account an example is my 14 year old step daughter, who also got an yahoo email without parent consent. Common any programmer/Hacker can fix this. Meaning if all the big players wanted to they could really make it hard to get an account of any sort. Example require a credit card account - Verifying acct with name then issuing an email to the account owner , most bank and institutions require an email for Fraud and this should be shared with all internet institutions once the acct.# is given to an establishment such as MySpace, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail not so hard to require compliance. There are a great deal of many ways to make it work with common sense! No DL's won't work! Make kids worry make them see they are responsible for fraudently stealing there parents credit card info.
#17

ryan jerden said 01/29/07, 8:23 am (verified)
I support this petition.
#16

Jacob said 01/29/07, 4:32 am (verified)
I started using myspace when it first came out. my friends and i used it for a study group. but now, i cannot believe what has happened with myspace! 12 year old girls (maybe even younger) dressing up like street prostitutes, with 1200 friends on their list! And men of all ages hitting on them! Sending them nasty comments! and thats probably not the worst of myspace! But ya'll know what all happens on myspace, so i dont have to go into detail. And the True.com advertisements... those are another thing! but right now, I'm waiting for the friends i care about to reply, so i can make sure they have my email address. and when they do, im going to close my account. this is just ridiculous! thats mainly why I googled "anti-myspace!" To make sure there are still others with morals and integrity. Thank God for all of you! I support this petition 100%
#15

Anonymous said 01/24/07, 10:37 pm (verified)
The internet should be safer. Myspace is for Emo, Goth, and Sexual Perverts mostly. Maybe even murderers. So it's time to take a stand a get rid of it for good. The kid of people as I described on Myspace want to meet the people in real life they meet on the website, but this leads to murder as said once on the news. Also don't believe Celebrities unless they have official music pages.
#14

Tiberius said 01/17/07, 3:23 am (verified)
I support this petition.
#13

amanda said 07/20/06, 2:38 am (unverified)
because i dont get why kids have to communicate to friends this way.God invented a phone and lets use it! also, why do these kids want to put thier lives in danger and have perverts go after them and sexually molest them or may kill them. Its a danger posting picture of yourself on the internet especially myspace because its a perverts dream, young kids posting pics of themselve and saying where they live.I heard of a 16 year old girl who went all the way to jordan (a country somewhere in the middle east) to visit a friend she met on myspace. This made national news.NO MORE MYSPACE!!!!!!! I 100% agree with you.
#12

Beverly said 06/30/06, 3:37 am (unverified)
I LOVE MYSPACE!
#11

AJ Biancaniello said 06/23/06, 1:08 pm (unverified)
I support this petition.
#10

LOp said 06/16/06, 11:47 am (unverified)
Get out of the nearest door you can find, everyone that has signed a petition on this website has lost their self dignity and should get out because their parents should disown them.
#9

mbarone said 06/16/06, 2:03 am (unverified)
Agreed. MYSPACE is terrible. I am sick of seeing my friends say that they are 100 years old, as well. Besides, how many people live to be 100 anyway? It's like a 1 in a billion chance.
#8

Z. said 06/15/06, 6:20 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#7

Lori said 06/15/06, 3:29 pm (unverified)
I do not support this petition. For one, it's not myspace's fault for what children do. It's the parent's fault. Plain and simple. If you don't know what your child is doing then thats your part failing as a parent. There's lots of websites like myspace where any little kid can get on, its just myspace is the more popular. And the young man with a rifle? Simple idiotic boy. There's one born every minute, and he's just being an ass and trying to make himself look good. So really here...some people are dumb, some are not. If you don't know your child is being a little whore on myspace, thats your own damn fault.
#6