Thanks for joining the discussion, Candace. You don't say what this person's doing on MySpace specifically, but it sounds like what you're dealing with - a falling out and breakdown in communication between friends - is a universal challenge that is now happening online as well as offline. I hope others will join in on this topic (and feel free to disagree), but I don't think the solutions are really any different online than offline. The addition of technology certainly seems to complicate or confuse things, but it isn't really the problem and can't change or fix it. The problem - which is still just human relationships - is the hard part for which there never has been an easy solution. What the Internet does sometimes (worst case, whether it's MySpace, a blog, or any other tool for making issues public) is distribute and/or perpetuate a problem, unfortunately, because - unlike an argument that breaks out on the phone - other people can see it if someone chooses to make it public on a Web page. I know this is no comfort to you but maybe it explains a little what can happen. It's also a way of saying that none of us can realistically expect social-networking sites to fix relationship problems. They can do some things, such as take down an imposter profile or a page that otherwise violates their terms of service. But that's really usually just a temporary fix because there is no guarantee the person doing the harassing won't put up another abusive page or profile. One thing you can do is see if whatever the person's doing in MySpace violates their terms of use (click here to read its terms). If it does, you can send an abuse report to MySpace and get that temporary fix that sometimes turns out to be permanent because the person doesn't want to bother putting up another imposter profile. If this is the problem, you can report the URL to MySpace via imposterreport@myspace.com. Good luck,
Anne
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Anne Collier
ConnectSafely co-director