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Cyber Socializing: Are Internet Sites Like MySpace Potentially Dangerous?

Cyber Socializing: Are Internet Sites Like MySpace Potentially Dangerous?

Cyber socializing: Are internet sites like myspace potentially dangerous?
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Katherine Lester, 17, and her father leave the courthouse in Caro, Mich., on June 29, 2006, after prosecutors decided not to treat her as a runaway for flying to the Middle East to meet a man she had met on the Internet. As cyber socializing grows, so do fears that the Internet exposes the vulnerable — especially the young — to sexual predators.

Last year, Eddie Kenney and Matt Coenen were kicked off the Loyola University swim team after officials at the Chicago school found they belonged to a group that posted disparaging remarks about their coaches on the Internet social-networking site Facebook.1

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