Banning Myspace - Comments Page 4

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Thanks for the info. I found your site to be most helpful in my research for an editorial I'm writing for my college english course. For the record, I think that banning social networks in schools (esp. in colleges) is agonizing, but extremely necessary.

I know firsthand what it's like to be an irresponsible student glued to my Myspace page, and I can tell you that $20,000 in college tuition is not worth countless hours spent "keeping in touch" with 500 "friends" you've never even met.

well if you ask me i luv myspace and its really fun so i think we should have myspace at school if u feel me im not a crazy bttch but i thimnk we shoulod have myspace.

EDITOR'S NOTE: So eloquently stated...

I guess I see where the schools are coming from. I mean your supposed to go to school to learn, not to talk to your 500 "friends", who are most likly some kind of pervert.

Now sure, I'm a typical teenager and go on myspace. The thing is, I know that I should go on it at home, not at school when I am supposed to do my work.

Do these schools banning myspace also block the other online communities such as AOL, or is this a plot to limit your freedoms to appropriate time and places. To use an justification like online predators as a reason for banning myspace, or anything else, is like commiting yourself to a bomb shelter or a padded room free of societies and life wonders. We are social beings and starve for interaction, and do deserve a free will to express ourselves, and to see the expressions of others.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Fine, nobody is stopping you from interacting, or expressing yourself. Just don't do it in school, where others are paying for you to be educated.

My school has blocked email, aim, myspace, livejournal and everyother blog in the NATION! and ALL of these proxies! there has to be something against this somewhere!! what about a protest or something??

EDITOR'S NOTE: Could it be... they want you to learn??

Some of these web sites worked for me, but most of them were blocked. The one I recomend is www.anysite4u.com this worked for me but then the next day i tried again and it was blocked so use at your own risk cause im sure your school's have consequences just like mine

myspace is fun and u get to keep n touch with your friends...they should not ban Myspace even at home...noone can control what we do at home except our parents...

Myspace is not that bad for people that know hwo to use it right,but peeple that give out there information and talk to people that they don't know is the worst thing that you can do. Myspce is good for comunication but not for giving out personal information you should never talk to anyone that you don't know, although anyone can get a hold of someones picture place it on there myspace and say that there someone that their not so you should always ask a question that only they would know, and then call them to make sure although they have made voice changers so that they could sound like that person so just be carful about what you put and say on myspace

Ok, I am not going to claim to be an expert in interpreting the law, or in interpreting the Constitution but let me present a, perhaps, different view.

Schools have the legal authority to control any traffic across their network. Since they own the network and pay for it they get to decide what the rules are. On a technical note, myspace or any site on the web can be used as both a place to slander, libel, deploy comprimising software,... all of which is illegal.

For those that want to spend time trying to get around the "blocks" think about this: your actions could be seen as circumventing security measures and could get you in big trouble.

For those that think that the bans are unfair, think about this: The Internet is a pool of free-flowing information and as such information can be distributed around the globe in a heartbeat. Administrators and school officials have a legal obligation to protect students from abuse. This I speak from helping with a youth organisation. I have a legal responsibility to report abuse and if I don't I go to jail.

Think about this the next time you object to administrators banning myspace at home: They are doing what they can to protect you, as they are legally bound to do so.