Facebook or MySpace, Why Not?

I have read CNN news on January 5th, 2009, about a study that conducted to know negative issues of using MySpace or Facebook for teen life

" Study: Teens on MySpace mention sex, violence "

The study said that 54 percent of teens talk about behaviors such as sex, alcohol use, and violence on the social networking giant MySpace. As we know that we can easily expose many things in this social networking sites, we can upload any photo, showing our feelings and thoughts, and there is no limitation on that. How we know that there is no villain out there who looking for their target. Who knows?

We cannot say that MySpace or Facebook is bad or good, the think is that how we use it for our good. Just like the study (Moreno) said

"It’s really not that MySpace is bad or good. I think the lesson is that it’s a tool, and how you use it determines the kinds of outcome you’re going to get "

Just like the study recommend for the parents that they should watch carefully their teenager in their online lives. They suggest that the parents should create their own MySpace or Facebook account to know the activity of their kids. Another suggestion is that the parents also should know the password of their children account. But i think the second one is not to important and it is privacy of the children. Furthermore they will not like that, isn’t it?

Facebook or MySpace can be used by the parents to know and learn about their children life, hobbies, their favorite, friends, etc.

So I think, we should have a positive thing on this kind of online life. In this global world, anything can happen, so it is good to have your own social networking with the profile you have but you must playing safe on that.

How do you think?