African American and Black Culture

Myspact ain’t Real Life

By Kamia Mwango on | From intheblack.today.com

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July 18th, 2008 by Kamia

I have had it up to about HERE with all this extra drama thatI hear about stemming from content posted on Myspace pages. In my humble opinion, that myspace is real only to a certain extent, and you have use common sense when deciding to believe the information or not. I mean, a 19-year-old guy with all these thick, half-naked models as his “friends?” Come on, that is the same guy that barely got a date to Homecoming. As much as Myspace allows people to communicate their reality, the website also allows people to create a fantasy, too. If you think Alicia Keys has nothing better to do that ask about your poodle, you are probably taking Myspace wayyyyyy to seriously! Having said that, I don’t think school-age children should go around posting nasty comments about each other on the site either. However, that is up to the PARENTS to raise decent children that don’t do that foolishness. That’s like if someone put up anonymous posters about another kid in the neighborhood. You can’t catch the other kid that did it, and the target of the propaganda gets seriously hurt. It’s up to parents to know what your children are doing. If they are getting online and terrorizing other people, I’m sure they also have other behavior indicative of a problem child. Please supervise your children and make sure they “play well with others.” If I see one more news story about physical violence or emotional trauma caused by Myspace, I’m going to throw up. I’ll ask you guys: Myspace, real or fantasy? Do kids really get hurt by Myspace propaganda? Are young Black kids engaging in this sort of thing? Let me know!