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* Some employers have begun to research prospective employees by browsing their MySpace sites, possibly affecting their chance at being hired. <ref>[http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?issue=104&article=1084 Facebook, MySpace impact employee hiring], The Collegian Staff, Bob Jones University, Accessed October 30, 2008</ref>
 
* Some employers have begun to research prospective employees by browsing their MySpace sites, possibly affecting their chance at being hired. <ref>[http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?issue=104&article=1084 Facebook, MySpace impact employee hiring], The Collegian Staff, Bob Jones University, Accessed October 30, 2008</ref>
 
*Others have criticized it for being the very demise of real-life relationships, instead forcing those relationships onto the internet.
 
*Others have criticized it for being the very demise of real-life relationships, instead forcing those relationships onto the internet.
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*Several people have voiced complaints of teenagers posting suggestive or otherwise inappropriate pictures of themselves.  They claim that Myspace has not done enough to protect minors from the dangers associated with the internet.  Myspace responded by implementing a "private" setting for profiles, blocking access to strangers, but this and other security features have done little to sway critics.  
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*Several people have voiced complaints of teenagers posting suggestive or otherwise inappropriate pictures of themselves.  They claim that Myspace has not done enough to protect minors from the dangers associated with the internet.  Myspace responded by implementing a "private" setting for profiles, blocking access to strangers, but this and other security features have done little to sway critics. The privacy settings can be circumvented by users with little or no hacking experience, rendering them essentially useless and hence providing a false sense of security to users.
 
*MySpace has been used by [[atheists]] to promote their blogs, books and to reach out to young people. However, MySpace was very decisive in deleting a large atheist group<ref>http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/01/banned-myspace-deletes-largest-atheist.html
 
*MySpace has been used by [[atheists]] to promote their blogs, books and to reach out to young people. However, MySpace was very decisive in deleting a large atheist group<ref>http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/01/banned-myspace-deletes-largest-atheist.html
 
</ref>. MySpace's founder Tom Anderson is himself an atheist.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/myspace-cofounder-tom-anderson-was-a-real-life-wargames-hacker-in-1980s/</ref>
 
</ref>. MySpace's founder Tom Anderson is himself an atheist.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/myspace-cofounder-tom-anderson-was-a-real-life-wargames-hacker-in-1980s/</ref>
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