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AGDee, I applaud you.
As a teacher, most of my kids were completely oblivious about how much stuff they actually put out there. Until a police officer, who specializes in child issues(abuse, pornography, molestation, etc), came in. We had an assembly for the 5-8th graders. He started off with a borring powerpoint about first amendment rights, computers, etc. Then he flashed up a screen shot of someone's myspace page and said, "Is Jane here?" The girl started to freak, and everyone started laughing...until he flashed up some more pictures of their pages. He showed the kids some of their pages (with some parts actually blacked out because it was so inappropriate) and asked them how they felt that a 37 year old man was looking at their pages. It scared some enough that they changed the pages...but not all of them.
We've had about 3 high profile cases of child abduction/murder in the area, but we still have kids who think they are immune to it all.
Bottom line, more parents need to be like AGDee. However, most of them won't. Which is why I think having the ads are at least a start.
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