Introduction

Hello all!  Welcome to my blog MySpace or TheirSpace?.

As you may already have guessed from reading my title, the topic of my blog is about MySpace censorship, specifically on how it affects schools.  As MySpace has become more and more popular especially among teens, the issue of what should or shouldn’t a student be allowed to place on his or her account has become very important.  Should a student be allowed to talk bad about the school or those involved with it?  Whose job is it to monitor the students MySpace accounts?  If the parents do not care then should the school?  If the student is forced to remove certain things from their MySpace account, is that a violation of their freedom of speech?  I know that this is a lot of questions to deal with, but I hope that by looking at some of the events that have happened recently I will be able to answer some of these questions.

The feeds that I have subscribed to are USA Today, The Washington Post, Google News under the search query myspace and schools, and finally to a blog called blogTO.  I chose USA Todaybecause I thought that it would provide me with many articles about MySpace censorship that have occurred throughout the United States.  I chose The Washington Post because I hope that it will give a view of the topic from a more political angle.  Located in Washington D.C., I thought maybe it might have some political opinion about MySpace censorship that other newspapers might not have.  The Google News search query should be able to get me a lot of articles that specifically deals with MySpace and how it is affecting schools.  The blog blogTO consists of many different blogs to search through, and provided me with a few that dealt with MySpace censorship.