It keeps getting reported that tools of the Internets are luring children to trouble. MySpace.com is reportedly the newest offender. MySpace.com is not luring the children into trouble, per se. The users of the Internet tool are luring the children into trouble. How do people protect their children? I do not know the answer. Some parents apparently are attempting to forbid their children from using MySpace.com through their schools and local libraries (www.websense.com). Let us hope they are watching what is going on at home as well.

"You wouldn't leave your kid on the side of the highway without supervision," Morano (Connecticut Chief State's Attorney) said. "You shouldn't put them on the Internet highway without the same type of supervision."

Methods for children to get into trouble have grown. The mobility of our society has increased the likelihood of encountering a pedophile from the West Cost on the East Coast. Children are our future. Children are also usually smarter than we give them credit. We must not only protect them, but inform them.

Be careful out there...