2. HISTORY OF MYSPACE
• Myspace was created August 2003 by Austin Russell.
• The very first MySpace users were eUniverse employees.
• Myspace is now owned by News Corporation. It was bought in
July 2005 for US$580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation
• eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to
quickly start off MySpace.
• By late 2007 into 2008, Myspace was considered the leading
social networking site. But it is now ranked 25th in leading
internet traffic sites as apposed to Facebook which is 2nd.

3. NEGATIVE PRESS
• In October 2005, a flaw in MySpace's site design was found by Samy
to create the first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm.
MSNBC has reported that social-networking sites like MySpace are
turning out to be hotbeds for spyware.
• Another criticism is that social networking sites make it easy for
stalkers who target people in everyday life.
• In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide
after being the victim of cyber-bullying instigated by the mother of a
friend who had posed as a sixteen-year-old named "Josh Evans".

4. Man charged with raping girl he met on MySpace
Washington County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a Dundalk man they
say had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met on MySpace. Twenty-two-
year-old Juan Valerio has been charged with second-degree rape and
third-degree sex offense. He is being held on $85,000 bail.