Myspace
Myspace.com is a controversial place. Many people I know will not even look at it, others (I've noticed a lot of pillsbury alumni!) use it regularly. Obviously, I do not want this site to be offensive to anyone, but I have decided to link to the myspace accounts of pillsbury alumni who provide me with a link (and whose sites are decent, which I think could have gone without saying). Visiting these sites is "at your own risk" and a personal choice for each viewer of this blog. We had such interesting comments on the music question, and I would be very interested to hear your views about myspace.com. Who uses it? Why do you use it? Who has a negative opinion of it? How did you form those opinions? Click on the comment box below this post and let us know your views!
posted by Pillsbury Alumni @ 10:17 AM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Naomi,
I agree with Micah (super?) on questioning the Myspace links. After refreshing the Myspace page a few times, I too was presented with the Maxim add.
Is it possible to have a "You're exiting the site and what you see next may or may not be appropriate" page when we link to other sites?
Chet
I think MySpace is a great way to keep in touch in theory. Like all "free speech" that is not regulated you are bound to happen upon stuff that you may not want to see. One of my family's cures for this is using Be Safe online. It blocks ANY and ALL advertising and just shows that web pages content. It's wonderful. We do not do Halloween and several sites I have visited lately at other places have been loaded with "Monsters" and scary Halloween stuff that really frightened my 3 year old. Even websites like hotmail and yahoo, and on our home computers this banner ads are blocked so you can't see them. Also on MySpace you can make your profile private so you don't have any stalkers or people trying to send icky messages or pictures. It is all a matter of opinion and I personally love it.
Hi this is Jon Miller I am Hearther Miller Vigil's brother. I use myspace as a ministry to witness to other people and open a forum for questions on religion and other touchy issues people may not feel comfortable talking about but feel free to over the internet. My myspace is http://www.myspace.com/jonboy3 you can post it if you want there is nothing I am ashamed of!
Hey guys, I know what you mean about the gross adds on various websites. I have a mac and I am thankful that it blocks 99.9% of popup windows. However, those banner ads can be just as bad. I use firefox and just downloaded firefox 2.0 for free from their website and I discovered that it has an add-on called adblock which takes out just about every banner add on the webpage itself. It also doesn't leave the space white, it blends in the blank space with the background of whatever website you are at so you don't even know that it blocked an ad (except for a little tiny adblock sign where the ad used to be). I hope this is helpful, I know I really have appreciated this.
Great dialogues about the issue!
We've all probably seen the Dateline shows how they have found the predators trying to hook up with kids on line. Sometimes they have used the My Space site.
In working at the teen shelter/ group home, I come in contact with teenagers and their parents on a regular basis who have had experience with My Space. I had one parent tell me just last week that their 15 year old daughter had been posting pictures of herself on her My Space account that were almost pornographic. In the secular teen culture this is an avenue to have communications with other people, known and unknown, away from "snoopy" parents. Some out there would even say that by getting comments on their bodies and other things that it is good for their "self esteem" [I hate those words]. It begins with parents trusting their youth and that trust either being misplaced or abused.
As for the adds, I hadn't even realized until reading the comments that even on my hotmail account there are adds for weightloss pills and other things that have barely-clad women. It's almost inescapable. Thanks for the ideas on limiting the ads, Jason. The difference is that nobody looks at my e-mail account except me. But what if I had a My Space account and a friend who was struggling with pornography or immoral thoughts and had one of these adds pop up? He might get ambushed when he was trying very hard to steer clear of this type of stuff. Could that be considered a stumbling block?
I know I mentioned Christian liberty in a post on another string, but Christian liberty isn't the liberty to do what I want. It's the libert to make choices that will better my service and relationship with God. Especially for those in Christian leadership, vocational ministry or not, there is a responsibility. How would it look if I had a My Space account and I gave the address to a youth at church and their parent was watching them while one of these banners came up? Even if the chance is minimal, one might be all it takes.
Following Him,
Steve
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