14 DAY TRIAL // Popular social networking site MySpace.com is having some problems these days, which will most likely mar its image and even its popularity.
One of the scandals the site is involved in is related to the threat a middle-school student made to one of his classmates.
According to TeWinkle Middle School officials quoted by the Associated Press, the student who created the post is likely to be expelled and 20 of his classmates who accessed it might get suspended.
MySpace.com allows users to edit their posts and for that reason, nobody knows for sure what they saw. However, it seems that the original message said the following:
"Who here in the [group name] wants to take a shotgun and blast her in the head over a thousand times?"
The school officials expressed their concern regarding the students' access to technology.
"With what the students can get into using the technology we are all concerned about it," Bob Metz, the district assistant superintendent of secondary education, told the AP.
The second scandal which scarred MySpace.com's reputation is about some minors from Connecticut who were molested.
In one of the cases, a 22-year-old man molested an 11-year-old girl in her room, while the parents were sleeping, and in the second one, a 39-year-old man molested a 14-year-old teenager in his car.
"The Internet has allowed people to invade our own homes, to have conversations with our children in the privacy of our own homes without us ever knowing about it," U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor told AP.