So, I am back from the Netherlands, and I was pissed last night cause Continental delayed my flight in Newark to New Orleans to 8:00 and i went and had some snacks with my parents 5 yards away....Not playing it safe (which would have been staying at the gate to see when the plane's departure was) we sat there like logs and my dad left and came back telling me the plane left without us! I NEVER HAVE MISSED A FLIGHT! and it was my fault as well as my parents because we should be sitting at the gate, but its Continental's fault for making such a drastic switch without notifying it on the loudspeaker...so i went to a crappy hotel and missed most of the ALA Librarian Association Convention at Morial Convention Center, do to my flight coming in today instead of last night, like it should have...DAMN IT! oh well....SO How bout UnderOATH's new album and Miami winning 4 straight games to win their first nba championship and Dwayne Wade putting up Jordan-esque numbers! But, really REPORTERS, MEDIA, BULLSHIT, THEY ALL HAVE TO STOP COMPARING PEOPLE TO JORDAN, YEAH DWAYNE HAD THE almost the SAME STATS (pts wasnt reasonably close, check SportsCenter, via espn.com)FOR HIS 1st three PLAYOFF APPEARANCES AS MJ, but Kobe, LeBron, DWade...STOP! JORDAN IS JORDAN the best, not a great nice guy, BUT THE BEST BALLER in da history of da league! and NO ONE Will ever replicate him! Kobe and LeBron are the future prodigys, but they are unique they are a new breed.....Jordan can never be duplicated and we need to give time so we can call the future future rooks like Dwayne Wade, or the great Kobe Bryant! ANYWAY CONGRATS TO MY BOY DWADE AND I LOVE HIM<>
MYSPACE IS GOOD-for bands to get their music out, for friends to interact, for a chance to spread the word easily and fast, and to talk to members of the bands u like so they have an easy way/medium? for bands to reach you and quickly message and answer your questions: GOOD (bands that are good or amazing that talk to u) UnderOath, Lydia, So They Say, Sullivan, and The Prize Fight Is WHy Myspace is good they support their fans, like the fans support them....
<---------THE PRIZE FIGHT-they need a major label, they have talent as do all of these bands, some are better off than others (Underoath, So They Say, Lydia, Sullivan)
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WHY MYSPACE IS OK, PISSES ME OFF, OR IS STUPID>>>>> 1. A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him. 2.
By Bob Sullivan
Technology correspondent
MSNBC
Updated: 10:42 a.m. ET April 29, 2005
Marcy's 13-year-old daughter has a knack for switching computer screens or shutting the laptop when mom walks in the room. Like in many families, the two often argue about whether mom has the right to see what her daughter is doing online. The conversation is never really resolved.
But a few months ago, Marcy's need to keep up with her daughter's Internet travels took on a new urgency when she found an unfinished message on the screen urging a friend to check out her daughter's picture on a special Web page her daughter had set up.
With that, Marcy made a discovery thousands of parents around the country are making -- teenagers are among the most active Internet bloggers, and many are posting pictures, names, addresses, schools, even phone numbers, almost always without their parent's knowledge.
"It blew me away," said Marcy, who requested her full name not be used. "And I just lost it. I sat my daughter down and said, 'Do you realize how inappropriate and how dangerous this is? Here's your face. Here's the town you come from. Do you realize how many sick people are out there?' "
To see her daughter's site, Marcy had to sign up with a service named MySpace.com. When she did, she found her daughter's page, personal information, and pictures. But she also found a list of her daughter's friends, and made another discovery -- almost all of her 8th-grade classmates at George Washington Middle School in suburban Ridgewood, N.J. had pages on MySpace.
"And their pictures are very provocative," Marcy said. "There's shots with their butt in the air, with their thongs sticking out of it. They squeeze their elbows together to make their boobs look bigger."
One-third of students have blogs Soon after, Marcy went to the middle school and talked with its technology coordinator, Mary Ellen Handy, who volunteers with WiredSafety.org. Handy discovered that about one-third of her 250 students have Internet blogs -- and only about 5 percent of the parents know about it.
"The girls are all made up to look seductive....Parents have no clue this is going on," she said. "You think your kid is safe because they are in your house in their own bedroom. Who can hurt them when you are guarding the front door? But (the Internet) is a bigger opening than the front door."
Blogs and their technology cousins, social networking sites, are all the rage among young Internet users. About half of all blogs are authored by teenagers, according to a 2003 study by Perseus Development Corp.; and according to comScore Media Metrix, a majority of the top 15 sites visited by teens 17 and under in January 2005 were either blogs or social networking sites.
But it's what's on the sites that concerns Handy and other experts. A study of teenagers' blogs published this year by the Children's Digital Media Center at Georgetown University revealed that kids volunteer far too much information. Two-thirds provide their age and at least their first name; 60 percent offer their location and contact information. One in five offer up their full name.
"I wonder if a lot of the bloggers are ... really cognizant that the whole world can read their blog?" said David Huffaker, who authored the study.
Experts interviewed for this article could not cite a single case of a child predator hunting for and finding a child through a blog. But there are cases of children being lured through other Internet services, such as chat rooms.
"I don't see why pedophiles wouldn't use this tool, if this is where kids are," said Ann Coulier of Net Family News.
Great source of friends Blogs and community sites are a great source of entertainment and networking for teenagers. High school junior Mary Ellen Handy -- Mary Lou's daughter -- said most of her friends began blogging when they were freshman.
"You can meet a lot of people. I go to an all girls' school, and it's a great way to meet guys from other schools," Mary Lou, who opened her MySpace account at 15, said. While she's attuned to safety issues, "the sad thing is a lot of girls put their addresses, other personal information. So many people don't know what's going on how vulnerable they can be."
Because they need a user name and password to join services like MySpace, experts say that many teenage users assume the site is protected. "But then they put their school name in, or their school team name," said. Anne Collier, editor of NetFamilyNews. "They don't realize somebody could put two and two together and figure out who they are."
An 'attention competition' Parry Aftab, who runs the WiredSafety.org program, says she doesn't think any blogs or community sites "out there are safe for kids." She says her organization gets complaints every day. "There are underage kids on every social networking site on the Net. They are engaging in highly provocative conversations and doing things they would never do offline."
Because there are so many kid blogs -- about 6 million, Aftab estimates -- many authors try to outdo each other to get visitors. Often, that includes provocative comments and images.
"It is an attention competition," she said. MySpace.com, which has 13 million users, says it has a strict policy of not allowing members who are under 16. Spokesman Bennet Ratcliff says the firm immediately removes sites that are in violation of the terms of service, including any site with too much personal information. But many bloggers get around the rule by lying about their age. MSNBC.com found when browsing the site that on several pages, kids who say they are 16 later state in their personal descriptions that they are younger.
"People are taken off the site whenever they are found," he said. Ratcliff wouldn't say how often that occurs.
LiveJournal, another popular site, allows 13-16 year olds to post. Some 400,000 of its 7 million users are under 16, according to the site. Executives there say most people have a positive experience, and it plays an important role in helping young people find each other and learn to express themselves. It does not screen user content, according to Kevin Krim, head of subscriptions services at Six Apart, which acquired LifeJournal earlier this year.
"Like an (Internet service provider) or domain host, it's neither feasible nor appropriate for us to be playing a role as editor or censor or making judgement calls," Krim said.
But Huffaker said the sites deserve some blame for the release of personal information. In the sign-up process, many ask for e-mail address, for example. Merely asking the question urges kids to answer it, making them think revealing the information is safe.
Kids blogs can be positive Handy said parents who discover blogs should try not to overreact and immediately shut off Internet access or community sites; there is a safe way to blog, she said.
"That is the first reaction parents have, to cut them off" she said. "But the kids know that, and they don't want to lose the Internet, so they don't tell their parents what they are doing. And you don't want that. You want the lines of communication open."
She said parents need to be much more involved with their kids' computer use than they are. Many just turn on the Internet access and walk away.
"If they are going to have a computer in the house, they need to be trained," she said. "You don't give a kid a car without proper training. This is just hazardous."
Sandra Calvert, a psychology professor at Georgetown's Children's Digital Media Center, and co-author of Huffaker's study, says parents shouldn't be dismissive of blogging. "(Students) are learning some basic programming skills. It's teaching them to be Internet savvy, how to make things, how to be creative."
Krim offered a similar defense for child blogging.
"For every off-color picture you might find, you are also going to find a number of kids having really interesting conversations about their developing views of spirituality, what they think about war. Those are good things to be thinking about," Krim said.
What parents should do While finding a blog can be jarring, Coulier said "the Internet presents a remarkable opportunity to parents and kids for a kind of partnership." Kids can teach their parents about the technology, while parents can teach their kids Internet street smarts, she said.
But there are some basic steps parents can take to increase their child's online safety.
Use a password-protection feature that genuinely does limit access to sites, says Huffaker. Livejournal's Krim says one-quarter of the posts on the site are limited to "friends only."
But not every child will be that cooperative, Aftab says. That's why it's also a good idea to occasionally search for your child's biographic information online.
"Talk to your kids. Say 'I read this article, do you go to a social networking Web site? And if you are not sure, 'Google' the kids. Search for their real name, their address, their telephone number, screen name, nickname." That's the best way to find any surprise blogs, she said.
That advice may or may not help Marcy, who says her experience of finding her daughter's blog left a rift in the relationship. She's concerned the girl may put up another site without her knowledge, using a name she wouldn't know. As a parent, she feels overwhelmed trying to keep up with each new Internet trend. She's barely gotten used to instant message services, and now she has to worry about blogs.
"I'm not sure there's anything that can (fix this), it is so difficult to police these sites," she said. "How do you prove a kid is 16 or older? Maybe information could come from the schools, newsletters that say, 'These are things kids are suddenly participating in online,' But it is very scary, and you don't know who's hands this information is falling into."
3. Your kid’s cyber secret Jan. 27: MySpace.com is a wildly popular Web site where teens can find each other, and sometimes find trouble. You may never have heard of the site, but most kids have. Dateline’s Rob Stafford reports on why parents must mind MySpace.
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Why parents must mind MySpace
Posting too much information on social networking sites may be dangerous
By Rob Stafford
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 12:34 a.m. ET April 5, 2006
Rob Stafford is back with another report on the popular social networking site, MySpace.com, which has made headlines recently since several sex crimes have been connected to the site. In the multi-part report, "Dateline" follows a police officer who assumes a fake identity, engages in online conversations with young teens, and then shares with their parents what he has found. Airs April 9, 7 p.m. on NBC. The report, below, aired Dateline Friday, Jan. 27, 9 p.m.
You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's a safe bet, your kids have.
It's a social networking sites — sort of a cyber combination of a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than 50 million members, its one of the fastest growing Web sites in the country.
Shannon Sullivan, teenager: Everyone has a MySpace and everyone wants a MySpace.
It’s free, easy to join, and easy to message its members. Kids chat about everything from school, to sports, to fundraisers for Katrina victims. It all seems like innocent fun, and it can be. But many parents and teens are unaware there are hidden dangers.
Shannon Sullivan: I honestly just thought it was my friends looking at it
Which is why Shannon disclosed so much on her space. She put her name, her address, and where she went to school— everything about how to find Shannon was on that site.
Rob Stafford, Dateline correspondent: Were you worried about doing that?
Shannon Sullivan: I didn’t think twice about it.
Shannon did think twice about something else: The rules on my space say you’re supposed to be at least 14 years old.
Stafford: How old did you say you were?
Shannon Sullivan: I think it was 18.
Stafford: You think it was 18?
Sullivan: I was 13 at the time.
Shannon’s mother Margaret happens to run the computer system at a private grammar school. She has parental controls on her home computer, and several months ago, MySpace popped up on one of the reports Margaret gets on the Web sites Shannon has visited.
Margaret Sullivan: I was just very upset. Somebody looking for a kid could find a kid very easily.
Stafford: Had you ever heard of it?
Margaret Sullivan: No.
She was stunned by what Shannon revealed and found the sites of other kids far more revealing.
Margaret Sullivan: I found all kinds of pictures of kids in revealing positions, and pictures of kids scantily dressed.
It’s a cyber secret teenagers keep from tech-challenged parents who are not as savvy as Margaret. It’s a world where the kids next door can play any role they want. They may not realize everyone with Internet access, including sexual predators, may see the pictures and personal information they post.
When “Dateline” surfed MySpace, we found scenes of binge drinking, apparent drug use, teens posing in underwear, and other members simulating sex, and in some cases even having it. We also found less provocative pages like Shannon’s was, but potentially even more dangerous. Teens listed not only their names, and addresses, but even cell phone numbers and after school schedules.
Parry Aftab, Internet lawyer and safety expert: [It’s] one stop shopping for sexual predators, and they can shop by catalogue.
Stafford: Do parents have any idea what some kids are posting on these sites?
Aftab: Parents are clueless. They’re caught like deer in the headlights.
Aftab educates parents and kids about the dangers lurking on the Web.
Aftab: Pedophiles are using all of the social networking sites. And every other anonymous Internet technology to find kids. The social networking sites are where kids are.
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Aftab says even kids who don’t list their name and address can provide enough personal information— such as the kinds of bands and boys they love— for a pedophile to use to con their way into their lives.
Aftab: If someone knows you "like pina coladas and walks in the rain," it’s very easy online to be exactly what it is you’re looking for— to be your “soul mate.”
Stafford: Who might happen to be a 40 year old predator?
Aftab: Absolutely. The teens just don’t get it. To them, they’re talking to a computer monitor.They’re playing in an area where they don’t recognize the consequences.
In the last month, authorities have charged at least three men with sexually assaulting teenagers they found through MySpace.com and just this week police found a missing 15-year-old girl who investigators say was sexually assaulted by a 26-year-old man she met through the site. MySpace members are now warning each other about the danger of sharing information online.
Aftab says parents need to find out what their kids are sharing.
Aftab: Say to your kids, “I’d like to see your profile page tomorrow.” It’s important that you give them a day to clean up their page. That will be the last time you give them warning.
Then Aftab says look at their site: Are the pictures provocative? Their profiles too detailed? Who are they talking to? And perhaps most important— have they kept their profiles private, protected by a password, to keep strangers out?
MySpace.com would not agree to an on-camera interview but did tell “Dateline” via e-mail that it prohibits posting personal information and has a team that searches for and removes both underage users and offensive material. MySpace said it does not pre-screen the content of its more than 50 million members, but encourages all of them to exercise caution.
Shannon Sullivan’s safety lesson came from her mom who grounded her from the Internet for two weeks.
Stafford: And six months ago you had no idea this was a danger?
Shannon Sullivan: Six months ago, I thought it was just another place you can to on the computer.
Stafford: And you were 18 back then?
Shannon Sullivan: Yes. (laughs)
Her mother, Margaret, did something Aftab says too many parents are afraid to do: take control of their child’s computer.
Aftab: They’re afraid of their kids. They somehow think because technology is involved, they’re no longer the parent. Get real. You’re the parent. If you don’t like it, unplug the computer. If they don’t follow your rules, no Internet at all. If you’re not the parent and if you’re not going to step in, no Web site on earth is going to be able to help your child be safe.
5. The book MySpace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens and Parents is now (u have got to be kidding!-KQ)In a light-gray house on Route 207, the small den has a blue carpet, a black desktop Dell and wood-panel walls – pretty plain, really – but when George McBride, a senior at Goshen High School, sits down and gets online, this space becomes MySpace. He's only one of hundreds of teens in the Goshen School District, in other school districts throughout the mid-Hudson and all around the country who over the past year to a year and a half have made MySpace.com the hottest, most popular "social networking site" on the Web. "Some kids are a little obsessed," McBride says. "Everyone is on it," freshman Aly O'Connor says. And anyone could be. That's what has Internet safety experts and parents more and more concerned these days. "From my interaction with teens, they don't really understand that there are adults who are predators," says New Hampton's Nancy Quarantotto, a mother of five, including two this year at the high school. "They think of it as: 'Oh, that happens to somebody else, somewhere far away.'" Los Angeles-based MySpace.com launched in October 2003 and now has an estimated 7 million to 9 million users. It's become the pre-eminent site of its kind, passing Friendster, LiveJournal.com and TheFaceBook.com. Kids use it to post personal profiles and blog with their friends, making it, basically, one, huge, free-of-charge warehouse for e-flirting – a sort of matchmaker meets AOL Instant Messenger. Pinpointing the exact number of mid-Hudson high schoolers on MySpace is hard – its "membership" is fluid, and some kids post spotty, incomplete information – but rest assured: It's a lot. A quick search on the site for folks within five miles of Chester's 10918 zip code returned 863 matches. Middletown's 10940: 753. Warwick's 10990: 492. Punch in the names of the area's two biggest high schools – Monroe-Woodbury and Newburgh Free Academy – and 585 and 352 pop up. Here in central Orange County, in the Goshen School District, the number as of early last week was 229. The MySpace phenomenon, at least in Goshen, kids say, started last summer, picked up in the fall after they got back to school, then just took off. "One person got it, then another, and then it was like, everyone had a MySpace," freshman Campbell Decker says. "It was crazy." What's crazy, says Parry Aftab, an online safety expert in Fort Lee, N.J., is that "kids go on there and share a lot more information than they should." The information seems on the surface harmless, even mindless, bored-kid jibber jabber. "Just saying hi and whatever," says McBride, who has 404 "friends" on his MySpace. Banter on the site includes lots of ALL CAPS and tons and tons of exclamation points. A whole heap of this: LOL. And some of this, too: :-D Most common question: "How r u?" Although site rules say users must be at least 16 years old – and no suggestive photos! – there are plenty of 14- and 15-year-olds and a bunch of scantily clad glamour shots. "Hey everyone," one Goshen high-schooler's profile says. "Yes, it may say that I am 18 years old but I'm only 14 … turning 15 soon, baby!" Some sample headlines to profiles: "mad SEX skills!!!!" and "I am your asian goddess." "WOW," one recent Goshen blog comment says. "nice job showing us your a-- today when you were playing tennis." MySpace's terms of use agreement says profiles can't include telephone numbers, last names and street addresses, but still … "Let's see," says Christine Syvarth, the mother of a junior girl. "I know your name, I have a picture of you, I know where you're from, and I know you like to go to basketball games. "HELLO?" After all, one in five teens is approached online by a sexual predator, according to a recent study done by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Read down to the last of the four pages in the user agreement, and it says: "Under no circumstances shall MySpace.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death …" Is it just harmless fun, then, or really, truly dangerous? "Actually, I think it could be," junior JJ Kozala says. "Last night, some girl found my MySpace all the way from Indiana, so anybody could find you." Last year, meanwhile, and for almost the entire year, Decker, who is 14, talked with another friend to a guy on AOL – a guy who turned out to be 45. "We flipped out," she says. "It is kind of dangerous," says O'Connor, another freshman. "People know what you look like, where you live – they know a lot of stuff about you." "People on MySpace can be anyone they want to be," junior Sameer Al-Tariq says. "It could be a 50-year-old man using a hot girl for a picture." The parents – at least the parents who know at all about MySpace – don't need to be told. "There was a 57-year-old who wanted to know more about my 16-year-old daughter," Syvarth says. "That bothers me." "My daughter had a 27-year-old man who wanted to be her friend," Quarantotto says. "From Scotland, no less. At least that's where he said he was from. "You're in a weird position as a parent," she adds. "Do you get on the phone with, like, 30 parents and be a tattletale? Because that's what you feel like." But many parents just don't know. They set curfews, monitor homework and have rules about who can drive, and where, and at what time, but when it comes to the Internet, well … Call George McBride's house, get his dad and leave a message about MySpace, and what comes back, real friendly, is this: "He'll know what that means?" "Kids are going there thinking it's role play without knowing there are real people on the other end, and real risk, and real concerns," says Aftab, the online safety expert. "Kids don't realize the Internet is as much reality as the real world." And parents are left to figure out what's OK and what's not. "At first, I was, like, 'Who's looking at this?'" says Eileen Sabbagh, the mother of two high schoolers in Goshen. "I was thinking there are predators out there. That's why we have the computer in the kitchen. You can look over their shoulders." The Quarantottos' computer is in the living room, where everybody can see it, but Nancy Quarantotto ultimately asked her daughter, Autumn, to erase her profile off MySpace. "I'm not mad," the 15-year-old freshman says. "It was like, whatever. The newness had kind of worn off." Isn't that always the way? The parents are getting wise, and the kids are moving on. It's getting a bit too mainstream, they say. "Watch," Decker says. "In, like, two years, everybody's gonna be, like, 'Eeeeeeewwww. MySpace? Gross."
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Read the headlines, and it can sound like MySpace is the most dangerous place anyone can visit on the Internet. It’s not. Take any group of millions and millions of people, who are freely able to join and navigate a web site, and you are certainly going to have a large number of people who are a danger to other people, just as when you walk down any city street, some people you walk past who have been or will be a danger to other people.
Many teens seem unaware that what they are posting can be viewed by anyone in the world who has an Internet connection, but unless they have taken specific action after joining MySpace, that is indeed the case. Meanwhile, the teens post pictures and blog away, oblivious to the likelihood that parents, teachers whom they’re ‘trashing’ or maliciously impersonating, police, and sexual predators may be reading every post.
Entering information that will be displayed on an openly accessible Internet page is like posting the same information on a billboard that can be seen by all the billions of people who have an Internet connection. But is a teen who wants to get online because all his friends are doing it thinking about this? Probably not.
So, is MySpace dangerous? Every open Internet site is somewhat dangerous, so yes. Can a MySpace user take steps to significantly reduce the risk involved in using the site, without losing any of the benefits the site offers? Yes, absolutely.
6. MY SPACE- ADANGEROUS PLACE
By Domenick J Maglio, Ph.D. - NIPSA board member
The days of thinking children are safe in their own rooms, in their secure gated communities are gone. Children as young as eight years old are going intocyberspace to expand their universe. They travel without an understanding of the dangers to which they are exposed. This site like, “Face book” for college students, contains photos that verge on soft porn. The difference is younger children are flocking to “My Space”. Parents of young children are obliged to go online and browse the website www.myspace.com to judge for themselves.
You will not be alone. Although under many parent’s radar screen, over 40 million mostly young people throughout the worlduse this site to become virtual friends with total strangers. Over 87% of youth in the twelve to seventeen age bracket are actively involved online. Ask your ten-year-old about My Space and he will probably have some knowledge of it. The concept of being highlighted online is spreading like wildfire in the youth culture. It is seen as being sophisticated.
In our fragmented existence children have little responsibility in helping the family and too much idle time on their hands to create a fantasy existence. As the proverb states, “Anidle mind is the devil’s workshop. Our youth, with their abundance of unsupervised time, are writing up biographical sketches with often provocative photos exposing too much skin and too much information to attract new so called “friends”. The interests and photos are usually altered to present an image of what she wants to be rather than what she really is. There is no easier way to develop an identity than to instantly project one to an unknown audience. Most of modern young people know more about the perverted world of Hollywood than they do about their own relatives. On My Space anyone is given a stage to be a celebrity to an anonymous audience.
Children feel invincible. They may have been taught the dangers of being online but they think any problems would never happen to them, only to someone else. The real danger to our children is that there are many deviant people who can view the child’s website by only clicking on their picture, name, address or zip code .By this simple procedure your daughter or son becomes vulnerable to become the next potential victim of a predator.
Do not feel too complacent if your child is younger than 15 years old. According to the guidelines of My Space anyone under the age of fifteen would have a limited website viewed only by their friends who have their email. However there is no check on any material entered on the site including age so younger children often make themselves appear older.
My Space is not a master plan to gain access to children. It is an enterprise for making a profit. The business purpose of My Space is to make money through advertising. The more people driven to the site the more a business can be charged for ads.
Young people placing their photos and interests online is a frightening process for those of us with life experience. Children with a limited number of years on earth have an equally limited knowledge of human nature. More and more stories are appearing with people who have met an evil person online and have come to a bad end. The unlimited access to millions of people will only add to the number of these tragedies.
There is no denying that cyberspace is a reality of modern times. There are no fool proof means of insuring our children are not venturing into this precarious world except one: their WORD. We need to depend on our children pledging themselves to do what they say they do. They must tell the truth.
Instilling a moral code in your children by teaching them to be honest will prevent them from doing things behind your back. The cost of embarrassing one’s parents becomes too great to distort their personal history to impress others.
Involved parents are the antidote to the world of ever expanding temptation. Stronger parenting will stop “boys and girls going wild” into the dangerous world of online fantasy and into the arms of waiting predators.
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My DRUM HERO---Aaron Gillespie!
my name is aaron roderick gillespie and i was born in clearwater,fl on july eigtheenth nineteen eighty-three...i really really like/love the band u2, i am addicted to getting tatooed... i really am insanley blessed to a part of this whole thing and i want to thank you all for reading this Jesus loves you.... --------------------------------When did you begin playing music? ummm...my mother has been musical my whole life so probably around like four or five.What would you be doing if you weren't in this band? I would probably be a worship leader or a chef depending on one thing or another.Favorite touring moment thus far: Being on the Solid State tour and having communion together in Sacramento.Favorite band accomplishment thus far: Accomplishments are such hard things to tag but... I think that just having people sing with us and come and watch us is an honor.Gear used: Various sizes of truth and medicine man drums, meinyl cymbals, dw hardware.
Jun 12, 2006 - MTV2.com Video Premiere - "Writing on the Walls"!!
The new video from post-hardcore quintet Underoath may show a bunch of strangers living in a house, but it's definitely not The Real World. Directed by Anders Forsman, "Writing on the Walls" depicts the story of a murder and everyone connected to the victim. Watch the dark mystery unfold in the premiere of "Writing on the Walls," the first single from Underoath's new album, Defining the Great Line www.MTV2.com
New Song Online Now! "Define The Great Line," hits stores everywhere on Tuesday, June 20th. A second song from the album entitled "In Regards To Myself" is now online! Be the first to hear it! Check it out on purevolume.com here and our MySpace page!
MTV2.com will be streaming the new Underoath album, "Define The Great Line," in its entirety starting Tuesday, June 13th for one full week! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information!
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