MySpace moves quickly after being slapped with a MySpace上的舉動很快被掌摑後,與一 lawsuit claiming 30 million訴訟聲稱30000000 by a teenager, molested by a contact she made in MySpace.由一個少年,性騷擾是由一個聯絡人,她在MySpace上。 MySpace will adopt a series of measures next week to make it harder for strangers to send messages to younger teenagers. MySpace上,將採取一系列措施,下週使它更難陌生人發送信息給年輕的青少年。

MySpace, which has more than 70 million members, has been under pressure for quite sometime because members are frequently subjected to lewd or inappropriate messages and occasionally lured into dangerous real-world encounters. MySpace上,這已超過70萬的會員中,一直壓力下,相當一段時間,因為議員經常受到猥褻或不適當的訊息,並偶爾誘騙到危險的現實世界中所遇到的。

MySpace will also stop showing advertisements for certain products - like online dating sites - to those under 18. MySpace上也將停止展示廣告,對某些產品-例如網上約會的地點-未滿18歲人士。

Older users sending a message asking to become friends with younger users will now have to enter the recipients’ actual first and last names or their e-mail addresses, rather than simply their user names.老年人的用戶發送郵件要求成為朋友,與年輕的用戶現在將進入收件人的實際第一個和最後一個名稱或他們的電子郵件地址,而不是簡單地使用者名稱。

The new policy still allows people under 18 to send messages to those under 16 without knowing their full names or e-mail addresses.新政策仍然允許18歲以下的人發送信息給那些未滿16歲不知道他們的全名或電子郵件地址。 So all you have to do to subvert the system is to set your age to under 18 in one of your identities.因此,所有你必須做顛覆制度是要設置您的年齡未滿18歲的在您的一個身份。

MySpace will also start to allow all members (instead of just minors) to designate their profiles as private and thus available only to their named list of friends. MySpace上也將開始,讓所有成員(而非只是未成年人)指定他們的個人資料作為私人,因此只提供給其命名為清單的朋友。
Link鏈接

The bottomline is that none of these measures can be foolproof unless MySpace decides to verify age of registrants (using credit card?).底線是,沒有這些措施,可以萬全,除非MySpace上決定,以核實年齡登記(使用信用卡? ) 。 It is however a step in the right direction without compromising much on the openness of the system.不過,這是一正確方向邁出的一步,沒有妥協,很大程度上的開放系統。