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Originally Posted by lurkur
I think it's fucked up on all sides. Adults not knowing how to act like adults, but the kids suffer. The mother shouldn't be so quick to hand all the blame to the other adults, however, because she should have been monitoring her activity, instead she laughs off a comment that her daughter was too young to even sign up for the service in the first place.
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I disagree. I think she did the best she could. Parents make mistakes, and the 'mistake' the mother made is minor enough to be negligible. Any kid older than eight has a MySpace account. And there are millions of children around the world with MySpace accounts who don't have horrible things like this happening to them because the adults in their lives know better than to harass them online.
I think we need to stop giving predators of all kinds whether they be rapists, child abusers, schoolyard bullies, frat/sorority hazers or sickos like these people a free pass by saying that there are always bad people around and so the it is the responsibility of the vulnerable others to beware of them and keep away.
The fact is that unlike non-human predators, these jerks have a clear choice and they don't
need to prey on vulnerable people for their very survival. Across the world, predators are not held accountable enough, while the preyed-upon are held accountable to an unrealistic and unreasonable degree.