If you are not familiar with and have little interest in MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites, you might reconsider:These interactive networks of photos, blogs, user profiles, groups, and internal email systems have been interconnecting people for a few years now and their use and popularity have been explosive.

As the cruel mom in this story, I most point out, that the “teenage victim” of the very same story happens to be the twelve-year-old daughter of the cruel mom. One day, the cruel mom was sneaking evilly by MySpace Girl’s sparkling clean room just waiting to find something wrong when what should she discover? MySpace Girl had left a website on her computer. It happened to be her MySpace account.

In doing a little research on teens and MySpace, there is becoming an overwhelmingly high number of search engine results for public libraries who have decided to make MySpace pages to attract the teenagers. Depending on your personal view of MySpace and the like and your view of how your child is able to handle such situations online, this may be good or bad.

The MySpace Guardian helps protect parents and children from potential predators on MySpace. The toolbar is dedicated to protecting children online. With their tools and a combination of other child protection tools such as Search Help’s Sentry parental control software and sexual predator alerts, they intend to keep users safe online.

This award is presented to MySpace members who use the social networking site as a tool to help make a positive change in their community and the world, according to Jin Yoon, a MySpace public affairs coordinator.