I know I don't need to explain "MySpace" to graduates and Confirmands, but bear with me for the sake of the adults. "MySpace" is a website filled with over 70 million interactive, personal webpages and blogs. It's something like the old-fashioned personal pages in the newspaper (when news came on paper), but it's more like 70 million personal diaries, all hung out there for the world to read.
Not all of it is innocent, however, as the story in yesterday's Free Press reminds us. They ran the story of a 16-year-old girl from Gilford, Michigan who was lured to the Middle East by a 25-year-old man through a conversation on MySpace. The article begins: "From her little yellow home amid the cornfields of TuscolaCounty, Katherine Lester linked to the wider world through MySpace and launched h…