MySpace: Harmless amusement or dangerous pastime?
By Mary Friel
A majority of MySpace users are teenagers. And some of them are checking MySpace pages at school.
Mendota High School?s administration resorted to disciplining dozens of students for using MySpace during school hours. But even after being warned a number of times, students still feel the need to sign on to MySpace at school.
MySpace has become a problem for more than one reason.
Before disciplinary actions were taken, students were logging on to MySpace to chat with friends while class was in session. Lean Moiser, a computer programing and keyboarding teacher at Mendota High School, said, ?Internet usage logs are checked daily. Students found using school computers for non-educational activities are referred for discipline.?
But is that enough?
Most students with a MySpace page don?t think it?s a distraction from school.
Kevin Folty, 18, of Mendota and a senior at Mendota High School, has in fact said MySpace has become a distraction from his schoolwork.
?I have been in trouble for being on MySpace,? Folty said. ?I was on MySpace at school, and an image that was on my comments was accidentally transferred onto the desktop, and the computer administrator could not take the image off. I later showed him how to take the image off but still got in trouble.?
Folty also explained that since he got in trouble and can only be on the school?s computers with supervision, he now spends homework time on MySpace.
Students also tend to disregard the dangers associated with having a MySpace account. Adriana Sandaval, 18, of Mendota and a senior at Mendota High School said, ?I know there have been problems with MySpace. I think that kids shouldn?t put down personal information.?
In fact, to be eligible to have a MySpace account, all that is required is personal information.
?I don?t think it is safe for kids to be putting their personal information on display,? said Reagan Stevens, a Mendota High School teacher of classes that include keyboarding, computer literacy, consumer economics and accounting.
Stevens also stresses MySpace use is definitely not appropriate for use in school and is better off at home.
?Some very tragic events have occurred from innocent use of this site,? Moiser said.
MySpace has been a problem not only around this area but all over the United States. Just recently in California a number of students were expelled from school for being on MySpace during school hours. Actions were even taken to charge some students with a hate crime for comments made about a classmate on MySpace.
A majority of MySpace users are teenagers. And some of them are checking MySpace pages at school.
Mendota High School?s administration resorted to disciplining dozens of students for using MySpace during school hours. But even after being warned a number of times, students still feel the need to sign on to MySpace at school.
MySpace has become a problem for more than one reason.
Before disciplinary actions were taken, students were logging on to MySpace to chat with friends while class was in session. Lean Moiser, a computer programing and keyboarding teacher at Mendota High School, said, ?Internet usage logs are checked daily. Students found using school computers for non-educational activities are referred for discipline.?
But is that enough?
Most students with a MySpace page don?t think it?s a distraction from school.
Kevin Folty, 18, of Mendota and a senior at Mendota High School, has in fact said MySpace has become a distraction from his schoolwork.
?I have been in trouble for being on MySpace,? Folty said. ?I was on MySpace at school, and an image that was on my comments was accidentally transferred onto the desktop, and the computer administrator could not take the image off. I later showed him how to take the image off but still got in trouble.?
Folty also explained that since he got in trouble and can only be on the school?s computers with supervision, he now spends homework time on MySpace.
Students also tend to disregard the dangers associated with having a MySpace account. Adriana Sandaval, 18, of Mendota and a senior at Mendota High School said, ?I know there have been problems with MySpace. I think that kids shouldn?t put down personal information.?
In fact, to be eligible to have a MySpace account, all that is required is personal information.
?I don?t think it is safe for kids to be putting their personal information on display,? said Reagan Stevens, a Mendota High School teacher of classes that include keyboarding, computer literacy, consumer economics and accounting.
Stevens also stresses MySpace use is definitely not appropriate for use in school and is better off at home.
?Some very tragic events have occurred from innocent use of this site,? Moiser said.
MySpace has been a problem not only around this area but all over the United States. Just recently in California a number of students were expelled from school for being on MySpace during school hours. Actions were even taken to charge some students with a hate crime for comments made about a classmate on MySpace.
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