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May 2, 2009

A Short History of Internet Scare Stories

2004: “Your children are being solicited in chatrooms!”
Meanwhile, adults start using IM at work and IM scare stories go away.

Then,
2006: “Your children are being solicited on MySpace!”
Meanwhile, people over 35 join Facebook en masse and social networking site scare stories go away.

Then,
2009:

http://www.walkingpaper.org/1971

My question is, now that the over-35 crowd is on Facebook are [some] public libraries still maintaining their No-Facebook/MySpace policies?

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