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Old 06-16-2006, 00:26   #61
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My daughter (25) Just got on it a couple months ago. I was asking her about it. She mentioned all the music as well. She posts pics of her daughter who is 10mos old now. She also found some old friends from High School, which have now all gotten together a couple times.
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Old 06-19-2006, 05:54   #62
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Having done a lot of research on this subject I though I could add a few points to the discussion.
As part of graduating with a sociology degree (save the jokes) I focused on internet related communication. Message boards, instant messaging, blogging and profile sites like Myspace were the crux of my study. The info that I gathered through surveys and interviews blew my mind.
Keep in mind that I was surfing BBSs when everybody used AOL and a connection speed of 56k was unheard of. Anybody who watched a nekkid picture of Tracy Lords load line by line knows exactly what I'm talking about.
90% of college students use Myspace or it's counterpart Facebook. 90%!!!! We can't get 50% of college students to vote, and yet they'll spend hours personalizing their profile and uploading pictures.
Time and time again I would ask cute college girls (side bonus) if they were careful with the info they posted. They always said yes, they would then turn around and tell me they posted class schedules, party locations and even their plans for that evening.
I won't get into the theories behind this behavior but sufficed to say most people are blissfully ignorant of the realities of what happens once they hit the "submit" button.
For those of you who are still active in the military, just think if you were in a situation were you were captured by the enemy. You provide the requisite name, rank, and serial number and how long would it take them to find your page. Those of us who have been through SERE will tell you how debilitating it can be for that interrogator to come in and ask about your father or mother [B]by name[B].
Practice good SA and PERSEC because it can bite you right in the middle of your behind.
That reminds me, I need to punch out the guy who filled out a "buddy" card on me, again.
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Old 06-20-2006, 23:36   #63
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Girl Sues MySpace.com

MyCrimeSpace.com is interesting as well. Rupert Murdoch owns his own little universe.

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Old 06-21-2006, 01:28   #64
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Check this out:
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Man Robbed by Teen Girls, Thought He was Meeting MySpace Friend
Old 06-21-2006, 08:56   #65
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Man Robbed by Teen Girls, Thought He was Meeting MySpace Friend

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A Jacksonville man says he was duped and robbed by two girls after attempting to meet with a woman he met on the internet.

The victim says he chatted online with a woman, known on her MySpace.com profile as “Natalia”, for two weeks before deciding to meet with her. He says her prfile showed sexy photos, and a blurb which said “just lookin’ for something fun”. That brief, friendly description was all he knew about her before they planned to meet.

"She sent me a message saying she thought she met me somewhere," says the victim.

They decided to meet at what she called her home at the Bentley Green Apartments.

“I went to [the apartment] and knocked on the door, and there was no answer. So I called her and said, ‘I'm here’ and there was no answer."

That is when two girls who were 14 and 15-years-old, approached him saying they knew Natalia, the girl he thought he'd be meeting. They also said they knew where he worked at what car he drove.

"This was not the girl that the picture was of on MySpace," the victim said.

Now sensing something was wrong, he was ready to take off, but was stopped by a shocking discovery.

"[One of the girls] took [a] gun out and put it to my head and told me to empty my pockets."

The girls didn't get much because the victim had forgotten his wallet. They let him go, unharmed, and he called police.

Police did a search of the area and found the two teens with another male suspect. They searched a purse and found two loaded handguns.

Myspace.com may have been developed for friends and music, but this victim had to find out the hard way that not everyone is logging on for the right reasons.

The so-called Natalia did tell the victim that she was 18, so he was shocked to learn he was actually talking to a 14-year-old. He says he has since removed personal information from his MySpace profile, like his salary and the kind of car that he drives.

Those teenagers are now charged with armed robbery and carrying a concealed firearm.
And they said the kids need protection.
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Old 06-26-2006, 20:28   #66
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This website is dangerous...as are most dating sites I have perused....investigations are still ongoing. Anyone recall the recent murders of a military woman and her daughter?? Looks like the daughter and the boyfriend were MySpace groupies.
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Old 06-26-2006, 21:58   #67
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A friend of mine introduced me to myspace in December. I use it for staying in touch with friends, and have had no problems. A simple rule I apply is if I don't know them in real life, I don't add them as a friend.

I've found a lot of old friends on myspace that I don't think I would have gotten in touch with in any other way short of going back home and writing down all of their contact info.

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Old 06-27-2006, 08:45   #68
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My old high school boyfriend found me on MySpace, haven't talked to him in 14 years. Boy did I dodge a bullet with that one!
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Teenage Girls Rob Man they Met on MySpace
Old 06-27-2006, 17:47   #69
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Teenage Girls Rob Man they Met on MySpace

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story...B-D86CF9E6B65F

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Old 06-27-2006, 18:54   #70
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Hah!

They need a disclaimer: Myspace.com is NOT the best place to 'pick up chicks'. They may be lying about their age, and/or apparance, and/or SEX, and/or -very likey- their intentions...

...more often than not, all of the above.
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Old 06-27-2006, 20:07   #71
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Being a high school principal, I have a MySpace account to be able to monitor my student's accounts and track alumni. http://www.myspace.com/iceman726

I also have a blog callled School Dais to discuss educational issues...including the dangers of blogging sites like MySpace for students and families.

http://sfoda726.blogspot.com/

You've got to be careful with your ID. I had to track a student down this year who created a fake MySpace account using my real name and posting false information that was detrimental to our school. The MySpace ffolkes were extremely accomodating in helping me and I wound up identifying and expelling the student. Their willingness to help me led me to believe that this must be a pretty common occurrance for them.
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Old 07-24-2006, 01:15   #72
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Just heard tonight that it was GONE. No reason given on the news.
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Old 07-24-2006, 08:51   #73
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They're back up

From the site:

hello everyone - so there was a power outage in LA yesterday. unfortunately it directly hit the data center where myspace's servers are located. lots of people were affected. the backup power failed and that's why myspace has been screwy since yesterday afternoon. we are still working to get everything back in order. i know what most of the problems are, it's just giong to take awhile to fix them. thx for your patience!
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Myspace/Terroist Space....its all the same part1
Old 08-31-2007, 16:49   #74
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Exclamation Myspace/Terroist Space....its all the same part1

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From what I've been reading its a great place for pedophiles and child molesters rapist, sexual Predators and Registered Sex Offenders. Let's not forget the high school killers and suicide gang.

Not a day goes by that there isn't another "sad" or sick story in the news about that place.....
Lets not forgot the terrorists.

Myspace may be a terrorist tool used for selective targeting, recruitment, recon and intelligence gathering, propaganda and a tool used for infiltration into the country.

I'll try my best to explain all of these concepts....I'd greatly appreciate it if the special forces community would stick with me through out this post so they could give their input as to if my fears are justified.

Myspace acts as a Terrorist selective targeting site because it will contain the profiles of relatives, and friends of key targets or key targets themselves. Key targets being people connected to military, government, industry, or anything else a terrorist network would deem useful....

Myspace and its past versions under the different names and companies that it evolved from is basically like 1 big filter system for a cyber savvy terrorist, enemy intelligence organization, hacker turned cyber mercenary....

If one had enough time and resources they could go through pictures or profiles looking for military or government marketing’s or other hints to indicate the person was connected to or was a key target.

One terrorist 1000 of miles away could locate 1000s of potential targets using myspace alone, never mind all the other sites like it.

It is a website that narrows down people’s locations, ages, sex, interests, jobs, hobbies and may contain detailed info, a basic psychological profile, and pictures. This is ideal for finding key targets amongst the average society....

So are sites that help veterans connect with old war buddies, or dating sites or sites that help people find each other from high school....

Info could be gathered on a person secretly through the internet, given to a spy to be studied, and then the internet spy approaches the key target or someone close to the key target via one of these sites.

Using scripts based a profile to build an internet relationship of some sorts...and of course remembering to ask how their son/brother/uncle/father in the military/government/industry is doing.

An example of this is this very site I am currently posting in right now. I know it contains Special Forces soldiers and most likely people connected to them.

Just reading forums on this site I could have gather intelligence on things like common usernames, nicknames, former units, general locations, and even what specific computer security soft wear some special forces members use on their PC....

I hope that the members of this website remember the old World War 2 allied motto of "loose lips sink ships"

Info collected from the internet and websites like Myspace or various other profile and discussion sites could be used to develop a psychological profile for the target, and could be used to help track people through the internet from one website posting to another...collecting info as you go until eventually collecting through one of the various ways the jackpot, their IP address....their virtual zip code if you will.

The IP address could then be forwarded to a terrorist member currently working in the telecommunications industry as an internet technician.

The spy technician would punch the ip address into the work data base and would be returned with the Users first and last name, technical info, account info, and home street address.....

Data and lists of IP addresses could be forwarded to the tech spy who gathers first, last names and street address of key targets and forwards it back to the spy network to be used at later dates in attacks.

The attacks could be digitally photographed with the photos then being sent to the myspace accounts and emails of the friends and family members of victims….A very nasty propaganda tool.

Different companies even use different IP ranges, so the spy network would know which specific spy to send the info to.

Corp America even makes things worse with their mergers and partnerships among supposed competitors.

A example of this is Comcast and TWC Roadrunner....Competing companies were trading territories and employees....Sometimes even sharing employees at the higher tech support levels.

They also may have begun out sourcing tech support to India and Asia.

This means 1 person in any call center around the world could have easy and untraceable(by using their co-workers accounts) access to the street address of millions of Americans all across America who have been filtered and identified as being key targets themselves or connected key targets.

Myspace and its cousins, and any other form of internet communication if you aren’t careful could be used to filter out the potential key targets.

Remember “Loose Lips Sink Ships”

All they need is a way to filter out the millions of internet users from the ones that are the key targets, than start tracking the key targets on the internet as best they can, waiting find their IP address.

The key target, a friend of the key target or a relative will have myspace or some variants of it past or present....This gives the terrorist network a filter system in the first place to find these key targets.
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Myspace/terroist space.... its all the same part 2
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Exclamation Myspace/terroist space.... its all the same part 2

The second way Myspace could be used as a terrorist targeting system is by scanning profiles and actively targeting people who have facial or physical deformities, over weight, appear to be emotionally unstable, and people who might obviously contain low self esteem. People who are in stressful life situations or troubled times.

With the idea being that is statistically more likely for a terrorist network to systematically and scientifically manipulate the person into blowing themselves up.

Then they would relay info of the selected targets through the internet to a trained and degreed PhD psychologist. Who would help manipulate the person by telling the terrorist exactly what to say based on the persons developing psychological profile.

Sociological information extracting experiments could be conducted over days, weeks, months, or even years. An example of this would be setting up the low self esteem/ lonely person with an online girlfriend or boyfriend or friend network.

This simple tactic could work on many people....The virtual girlfriend or boyfriend would gather personal info on the target and maybe even be used to actively lower the persons self esteem...an example of this is could be as simple as "I promise ill meet you in person tomorrow" and never showing up....

Over the months and years info could be gathered and a fairly accurate psychological profile could be developed.....This profile could be forwarded to a team of 2-5 trained terrorist operatives already in the USA or Europe....

From there the team could casually approach and infiltrate the life of low self esteem target, and use the psychological profile to set up rehearsed social situation and use scripts written by trained doctors to manipulate the person.

Quickly becoming a person of power and influence in their lives.....

Religious influencer would be the ideal position and would be likely to happen eventually because the target would be lonely and have low self-esteem and quite possibly be searching for acceptance and love that comes with god and community....

Once in a position of trust and during a religious discussion in a safe place that would not be disturbed by the outside world the Terrorist religious leader spy could then secretly slip the target a dose of MDMA with out the targets knowledge.....

MDMA is a widely available street drug that causes an extreme euphoric feeling....put it this way on street it goes by the name "heaven".

Long term side effects of the drug include depression caused by the drug creating chemical imbalances and possibly burning cells in the brain to cause prolonged depression.....

When taken it causes the individual to feel very euphoric becoming more trusting, less likely to resist ideas or suggestions, and more talkative, increased sensitivity of sensory perception including feeling, sight, sounds, and smells all perfect things for revealing info, faking a religious experience and manipulating low self esteem person into becoming a suicide bomber.....

Thanks to the internet and myspace, and other profile sites like it that myspace evolved from it’s possible for a team of two or more terrorist spies to have dozens of low self-esteem, mentally disturbed, emotionally unstable, isolated, lonely individuals under their social influence and power.

Who may become unknowingly addicted to drug that worsens depression feelings when not on it and when taken gives them the feeling of going to heaven, which they think is caused by a religious experience found through relationship with god through their religious leader.

All the while unknowingly being targeted by a person skilled at manipulation who is in control of their self esteem and manipulating them with the help of drugs, trained medical doctors and profiles, scripts, social situational set ups, and other various manipulation tactics.

Eventually telling them that its gods will that they die and sacrifice themselves...and only doing so will their past sins be cleaned.....or something along those lines....

This tactic could be also incorporated with some LSD or various other drugs and combined with some hidden speakers so the target actively thinks they hear the literal word of god talking to them.

The literal word of god condemning them about past personal acts would actually be the scripts of the trained psychologists....Who would ideally condemn them for acts which they only confessed to their faceless internet friends...

Since the individual would most likely have forgotten about the random internet friends group by now having been led into knew social structures....they would think it could only be God talking to them because only God would know such personal info.

The religious leader could specifically not ask questions so the target would know they did not tell the religious leader this personal info.

None of that would be possible with out Myspace or the various profile sites that myspace evolved from.

Myspace could be used as a direct and indirect recruitment tool, simply find any teenager in America who hates authority and government, or other people displeased....

The average rebellious teenager couldn’t be convinced to join the Jihad but I think they could be convinced to commit various acts of vandalism or set off fire alarms….

Things that could prove quite tactically significant in a coordinated terrorist attack…If the manipulation was done correctly the individual would not even know that they were being used as a pawn.

Myspace could be used to find employees of specific companies or industries and then contact them and bribe them...

Myspace could be used by a terrorist team to find and manipulate a low self esteem person into marrying a foreign person. Who is their perceived soul mate due to well organized recon, and an accurate psychological profile.

This would make diction by immigration services slightly less likely to happen because the spy would have a profile and written words to study from and memorize combined this with a support team to help the spy always appear to be the perfect lover.

Myspace could be used to form cyber romantic relationships and convince them to expose themselves on web camera so they could be blackmailed with incriminating pictures later on.

Remember folks loose ships sink ships....and it’s not just "my space" it’s your friends and families space, their space, everyone’s space, and the unfortunately terrorist space to....
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