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Privacy concerns enter teens’ site
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Published: January 6, 2009
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CHICAGO — Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named "Dr. Meg.”
The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encourage children to have safer Internet use.
Her message read in part: "You seemed to be quite open about sexual issues or other behaviors such as drinking or smoking. Are you sure that’s a good idea? … You might consider revising your page to better protect your privacy.”
Parents, and even doctors, who care for adolescents "should feel very comfortable looking up” their children’s or patients’ profiles on social networking sites like My-
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