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traceyd
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Myspace=Trouble
Ok so today DH got a phone call from his mother all upset about one of his neices who is (13) having some pretty "sexy" pictures on myspace.com. His mother was told by another one of his neices (who is 23) Dh called the 23yr old neice to find out more about it and we wound up logging on to myspace to find that she has herself listed as 17 yrs old and states where she lives etc. These pictures are insane!! She has her stomach hanging out (she is a skinny thing) bo*bs popping out of tank tops and her expressions and body language are all screaming "sex". So his niece didnt want to be the one to call her Aunt and tell her about it, so somehow my DH got involved and called his sister. Well she doesn't seem to think they are so bad. She is computer retarded so we literally had to walk her through every step-she did say a few curse words but didn't really seemed to phased by the pictures. She had to get her youngest daughter to help her log on etc (this daughter had mentioned that she was concerned about her sis' pics to her mother earlier in the week) and Dh knows he is screwed now b/c his nieces (there was also her other older daughter who had a profile but nothing was to bad on that) are going to know he ratted them out. I'm so angry at his sister for involving her other younger children and DH says he only did it b/c god forbid there would've been some psycho looking at this pictures and trying to find her (it wouldn't be hard!) I just needed to share since I feel like DH did the right thing but now is going to look like the ultimate bad guy
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
that's definitely a tough situation.... But, i'd rather look like the bad guy, then the one who knew, but did nothing about it.
because, you get over being the 'bad guy', but god forbid something happened... you can never get over that inaction. 
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:01 PM |
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Melbernai
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
You know what -- good for your DH. She is 13 -- she'll get over him ratting her out. Remember, 13 year olds get upset about EVERYTHING so she'll eventually get over it. He did the right thing.
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:01 PM |
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Wendy1220
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by neeniebean86
that's definitely a tough situation.... But, i'd rather look like the bad guy, then the one who knew, but did nothing about it.
because, you get over being the 'bad guy', but god forbid something happened... you can never get over that inaction.
Couldn't have said it any better than you have. It'll take some time but your nieces will get over it and DH definitely did the right thing.
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:03 PM |
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munchkinbugs
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by Melbernai
You know what -- good for your DH. She is 13 -- she'll get over him ratting her out. Remember, 13 year olds get upset about EVERYTHING so she'll eventually get over it. He did the right thing.
Completely agree.
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:05 PM |
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Shanti
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Posted by Melbernai
You know what -- good for your DH. She is 13 -- she'll get over him ratting her out. Remember, 13 year olds get upset about EVERYTHING so she'll eventually get over it. He did the right thing.
I 100% agree
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:08 PM |
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traceyd
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
you guys wouldn't even believe these pictures-if Dh's mother would've seen them she would've been a wreck. She was crying without even knowing what the heck they were.. My Dh was absolutely disgusted with comments left on the pics too-like you're so sexy-put on some clothes you wh*r* etc. I know a lot of them were her friends joking around but she is absotuely gorgeous and if one pervert got the wrong idea-who knows-I'm just fearful that his sister wont really take action. I mean everyone else in the family was shocked and appalled-she was asking me how to look up her other daughters friends b/c she wanted to show me her oldest daughters new boyfriend I was in shock
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:10 PM |
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Salason
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by neeniebean86
that's definitely a tough situation.... But, i'd rather look like the bad guy, then the one who knew, but did nothing about it.
because, you get over being the 'bad guy', but god forbid something happened... you can never get over that inaction.
i agree. it freaks me out how much freedom kids have on the internet and could get themselves into SO much trouble. very scary.
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:13 PM |
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Wendy1220
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
So she knows the older daughters boyfriend is on that site as well? Yet, she didn't know about her younger daughters pictures. I hope she understands how dangerous it is for her daughter to not only post pictures like that of herself but to disclose the general whereabouts of where she lives. It also bothers me the way these kids speak to one another; even if the comments were made by her friends, it's disturbing that they think its acceptable to speak this way.
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| Posted 5/12/06 10:16 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by neeniebean86
that's definitely a tough situation.... But, i'd rather look like the bad guy, then the one who knew, but did nothing about it.
because, you get over being the 'bad guy', but god forbid something happened... you can never get over that inaction.
I agree with this. Next time, tell him to contact MYSPACE directly & complain of underage users. It's a temporary fix but they'd have to lock her account out & take down the page.
If the mom has read a paper or watched TV (dateline, for example), she had to see those &@!@)!*$ arranging "dates" with underage girls. This is a perfect reason to be computer literate...for the sake of your children.
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| Posted 5/12/06 11:01 PM |
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MsG
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
A 13 year old is not an adult, so if she is mad at him, chalk it up to an obviously troubled girl having someone call her on her behavior. He did the right thing. Too bad her mom doesn't sound very concerned. 
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| Posted 5/13/06 5:38 AM |
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amarto
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
My DH was actually just in the same predicament where his 16 yr- old neice was on the website saying she was older. Thank God he said something because we found out that there was an older man that was e-mailing her and was up to no good. The police had to get involved and it is a very scary situation. It actually turned out that the man lived in in the next town!
Better to be safe than sorry!!
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| Posted 5/13/06 6:42 AM |
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luvsbob4603
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
I was in the same situation with my Dh's nephew he is only 12 years old and i saw him on the site and I told my father in law who told his father and eventually the mom found out!
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| Posted 5/13/06 7:30 AM |
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skew
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good for your DH. there has been A LOT of issues w/ mysapce and these kids do not compehend how destructive and damaging the site can be if misused. personally, i wish some one would step in and ban the site.
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| Posted 5/13/06 8:17 AM |
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jersee3380
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
we had the same trouble. dh's son (who lives in RI) made a profiel and put inappropriate sayings and told of things he has supposedly done, all over it. he made himself older and told of his school and where he lives. i found it, told dh, who called his mother and of course WE were the bad ones. god forbid she watch out for her kids.
i think it is kinda of dangerous, especially for little kids who dont think anything will ever happen to them. ya never know.
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| Posted 5/13/06 8:38 AM |
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dpli
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by neeniebean86
that's definitely a tough situation.... But, i'd rather look like the bad guy, then the one who knew, but did nothing about it.
because, you get over being the 'bad guy', but god forbid something happened... you can never get over that inaction.
Exactly!
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
Posted by skew
good for your DH. there has been A LOT of issues w/ mysapce and these kids do not compehend how destructive the site is. personally, i wish some one would step in and ban the site.
I agree. I'veoften said it's nothing but trouble and gotten flamed for it, well...
As a high school teacher I can't tell you how many students (even with innocent pages) have been approached by slime-bags offering them all sorts of things.
Even adults... I've read at least 4 stories on LIF alone about how ex's of either DH or the poster has been contacted after years of not seeing one another and the other spouse has foudn the correspondence. Every one of them is questionable. If you haven't seen each other in years and you know the person is married then WHY are you contacted them???
Call me whatever you want but it's NO GOOD!!
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pmpkn087
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Re: Myspace=Trouble
I think your DH absolutely did the right thing.
His neice may not see it now, but she will eventually that it is better to have someone who cares than noone who cares
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