MySpace New Age Restrictions

Recently MySpace has announced its new age restrictions policy that makes a few modification regarding profiles viewable by adults and minors. The new policy prohibits MySpace users who are eighteen or older from requesting to be on a 14 or 15-year-old’s friends list. However, if they know the teenager’s full name or email address, they are not restricted from requesting to be on friends list of a teenager. Another new rule will prevent users 18 or over from viewing full profile of 14 or 15-year-old.

In addition to that, all users will have the ability to prevent contacts from people that not their age. All users will have the option to make their profile half-viewable to those people not on their friends list. While it is mandatory to know a 14 or 15-years-old’s email address or full name to be on his or her friends list, it will remain optional for those 16 and over.

MySpace is concerned that they have no knowledge of the registered users real age or identity; hence a person 18 and over can still register as a youth and yet have access to full profiles. The new changes are expected to be in action by next week.