The director of a children's advocacy group in San Diego believes new rules for the online website MySpace will not shield kids from online dangers. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has the story.
Many kids fall victim to sexual predators and cyber-bullies on MySpace every year. Now MySpace executives want to make their site a safer place. They just announced new security measures which include making the profiles of some teenagers private, and developing technology to verify the ages and identifies of its internet users.
Robert Fellmeth is the director of the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego . He's not convinced the new controls will stop online predators. In fact he believes the measures amount to a public relations gesture.
Fellmeth : I'm just concerned that parents will get a false sense of security that this is all taken care of because they're handling it -- and I don't think they can handle it.
Fellmeth says parents need to be the first line of defense in monitoring children's Internet use.
Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.
