A teenager's point of view

This is a blog for parents to read. I'm so sick of everything being biased by nosy news reporters who don't know the whole story. I realize that some people are being stalked and raped from the internet. And I also realize some people just need the attention from a complete stranger to make themselves feel better, so they plan to meet up with them and the stranger turns out to be a pyschopathic freak. I understand that. But what about the responsible teenagers who know better? I'm not an attention-craving idiot that puts pictures of myself with hardly any clothes on. And I'm definetly not lonely enough to talk to someone i've never met just because they requested me on myspace. So I would deeply appreciate it if our lame ELDERS could stop being so paranoid about every child in the world, and stop trying to warn our parents about something we have control over! Im not saying its not important to watch what your own kid is doing. But I don't need a stranger to alert my mother of my "innapropriate use of the internet." And don't give me the excuse that "We need to alert all the unaware mothers because they're just not informed of what their child is doing". You know what? That's their fault. They should be home spending quality time with their kids learning about what they're doing in their spare time instead of whatever else they think is more important than their children. And just to inform those unalert parents, your children are the ones getting stalked. Because you're not giving your kids enough love. So stop blaming "Our technological generation" because that is just CRAP. I hate to say it, but it is. Your not spending enough time with your child so they're giving themselves away through the internet. End of story. Now, stop saying all kids are stupid enough to let themselves get kidnapped and raped from myspace. Because personally, i'm insulted that someone would think just because i'm young that i'm not informed. Don't try to ban your child from this website, because it is a fun way to keep in touch with friends. Instead, make sure they keep their profile on private and encourage to them the dangers of the internet and they just need to be careful and not talk to strangers. One more thing, if most of you parents are so alarmed that your child would display their interests and pictures on the internet, why don't you mind when they go to parties or the movies of the mall by themselves? It's practically the same thing. Except at parties, the movies, and the mall, you're child can actually get in danger. Drugs, sex, and violence doesn't happen online. It happens at places. So don't blame myspace for that stuff. You've been trusting more dangerous things than myspace for years. Why not trust myspace, and just inform your child of the dangers, just like you did when you let them go places on their own?