News.com Forgets Parents - Called to Action You Deadbeat Parents
Published by Picturesque on Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 2:12 PM.
A News.com article discusses how MySpace "blurs line between friends and flack". It discusses how companies use MySpace to market their products and hold discussions with people, including children, to sell their merchandise. So your child makes friends with the Burger King who tells them they need to buy a whopper and they believe their new "friend". My first question is, who's minding the children. No decent parent should let a younger child use the Internet without supervision, much less chat with an unknown claiming to be the king of anything. I just had to comment on this as they assume we are all using the Internet to babysit our children. Such parents do exist I'm sure, but is it the companies fault? Who should be penalized here? Common sense dictates the parents of the children are at fault.
It is obvious to anyone with a brain that these are companies selling their wares. It should also be obvious that not everyone in a chat is honest about who they really are. I'm rambling now. At any rate, businesses can benefit from using MySpace if they are marketing to the under 30 crowd. Articles like this prove it.MySpace blurs line between friends and flacks | CNET News.com
It is obvious to anyone with a brain that these are companies selling their wares. It should also be obvious that not everyone in a chat is honest about who they really are. I'm rambling now. At any rate, businesses can benefit from using MySpace if they are marketing to the under 30 crowd. Articles like this prove it.MySpace blurs line between friends and flacks | CNET News.com
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