incrediBILL - 2:50 am on Jan 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

It's a catch-22 as you can't protect your privacy and your children all at the same time.

If you want to protect the children, require an adult to create the account using a valid CC and some other information, perhaps force them to use VERIFIED BY VISA which requires a PIN number.

However, I'll stick with teaching the kid, take responsibility for protecting your own family, I did, it's not MySpace's job. If you don't trust the kid, install software on the kid's computer that will track what they do and report back to you where they went and what they typed.

Your kids are your job, nobody else's.

Period.