"Many of our safety features are built around age and it's important that people honestly reflect their accurate age while on our site," Nigam said in a statement.

Hahahahahahaha!

I have a friend, who is finally doing well again financially, after taking a severe hit during the dotcom bust. He fixes people's computers, and helps with both software and hardware problems. He jokes with me that "so long as people are lazy and stupid" he'll make money. Sadly, I think he'll be a rich man before he has to find another line of work.

Parents should parent. That seems pretty simple to me. If you don't know where your kids are after school, that makes you a pretty lousy parent in my book. Goddess knows my folks kept tabs on me, and I was a good student and athlete. In an age of cell phones, implants and pagers, it doesn't really seem logical to me that this mom can hold MySpace responsible for her daughter's willingness to drive away with a strange man: