MySpace: a waste of good half-nakedness
Silicon Valley schools are blocking kids from MySpace after finding profiles with booze, cleavage, and (oh noes!) flame wars. The Valley is going through the same social-site backlash as the rest of the nation: teens want to be loud and dirty in public, and parents think their kids should keep quiet. Guess these people have never walked down Haight Street.
Social-tech expert danah boyd has championed students' rights to free speech before, saying that kids will only find other places to mess around.
Which is precisely why teens shouldn't be posting their dirty pictures and suggestive jokes on MySpace. They should be on Suicide Girls and camboy sites, making money off this stuff. Isn't this the home of monetizing content? Barely-legal teens of Silicon Valley, be responsible: stop the free half-nakedness.
