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From Wired News:

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — On websites such as MySpace, teenagers can find people around the world who share their love of sports, their passion for photography or their crush on the latest Hollywood star. But authorities say teens are increasingly finding trouble in an online environment where millions of people can, in seconds, find out where they go to school, learn their interests, download their pictures and instantly send them messages.

Police in the central Connecticut city of Middletown suspect that as many as seven girls were recently assaulted by men they met on MySpace. The FBI says it regularly receives calls from police trying to figure out how to stay ahead of popular technology that puts children a mouse click away from millions of strangers.

Not really anything new here. As has been happening for the last 15 or so years, parents are increasingly relying on technology to “babysit” their children when they can’t. Teenagers these days are so much more familiar with computers and the Internet than their parents are and I’d wager that most parents simply don’t know that sites like MySpace and Facebook exist.

Kids, being kids, however, simply don’t understand the possible repercussions of putting all their personal information online. People that I encounter are often very surprised at the amount of information one can gather about another from the Internet. It’s worse when people, mostly teenagers and young adults, put their personal information right out there for anyone to see.

Wired: Teens Reveal Too Much Online.