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MySpace Press Conference On 'Internet Safety' Today

MySpace is having "a press conference to make a major announcement in regards to Internet safety" today at the Sheraton in New York at 11 a.m. EST, according to their press office. (If you want to listen in, citizen journalist, you can dial it up and listen in at 800-895-0231 or 785-424-1054, with conference ID: ABCDE.) Quite possibly related: Today, the New Yorker takes on the so-called "MySpace Suicide Hoax," in which 13-year-old Megan Meier hanged herself after being taunted by neighbors posing on MySpace as a teen boy. In the neighborhood drama that ensued, an innocent foosball table was also destroyed.

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dubiouswonder says:

The foosball sentence made this blurb worth reading

» by dubiouswonder on Jan 14, 2008 at 11:36 AM
jonathan says:

er, maybe that should be "myspace hoax suicide"?

» by jonathan on Jan 14, 2008 at 06:39 PM
SpaceMonkeyX says:

I live in O'Fallon (the "next town over" from Dardenne Prairie, though DP is actually surrounded by O'Fallon's city limits) and let me tell you, this has been a huge story around here for weeks.

» by SpaceMonkeyX on Jan 15, 2008 at 10:53 PM

 
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This entry was published on January 14, 2008 at 10:30 am by Choire Sicha.

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