2 posts tagged “myspace”

Family and friends of 36 out of the 490 death row inmates in Texas have been maintaining Myspace accounts in order to send messages out to the world about their life and reflect or refute their conviction.

However, these accounts may soon be removed if Andy Kahan, director of the crime and victims office for Houston Mayor Bill White has his way. He has already written a message to the website asking for the accounts to be taken down.

The director draws parallels with the site considering taking down the accounts of registered sex offenders as well. Though there are obvious moral issues involved with this case but I don't think that taking these accounts down will really help anything. For one, family and friends can always switch to another social networking site or just make the identity of the prisoner less obvious. This problem will always be around as long as inmates have the ability to communicate with the outside world and I highly doubt this right will be taken away so until then, it will be a long fought, probably unsuccessful battle for Mr. Kahan.

MothersClick, a new website to be launched in a little less than 2 weeks (October 17th), is targeted as a "myspace for moms." Sounds like a good idea especially for younger more techie type moms who want to socialize like their kids do. However, what about Mr. Mom aka Dad? I'm guessing he's not allowed...

I tend to think that a parents social networking site would have been a smarter plan. I mean, obviously, the parents would tend to socialize with the same sex but hey, what about single parents? It could be a slightly less creepy way of meeting other single parents? Not gonna lie, that would be pretty cute.

In any case, discussion about strollers, baby food, and teenage angst will soon find its home off the sidelines of the soccer field. (a stereotype, I know--but hey, it does have some truth to it). Let's just hope good old Dad finds a website for himself one of these days too.