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Graci Gillming

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July 24, 2008

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Profiles are created when a person applies for an account for the purposes of using Instant Messenger or for entering MSN chat rooms. If you listen to your students, you'll know they "chat" a lot, especially when they get home from school. This is where they make "new friends," but these new friends may not be who they say they are. That's what's so scary!

The profile contains info boxes which are all OPTIONAL except for the account name. It has categories for first and last names, town, age, hobbies, interests, favorite sayings, music, etc. Most of them think this information is harmless, which most of the time it is. But predators, who want to "groom" a victim, use this info to earn a false friendship.

Here are the steps to see who has a MSN profile in a specified town.

Go to www.msn.com
Click on My MSN near the top in the center of the window.
Choose People & Chat in the navigation bar at the top.
Click on Member Directory in the navigation bar at the left.
Click on Advanced Search in the "Search this site" category in the navigation bar at the left.This will bring you to http://members.msn.com/find.msnw?rr=440171640 which you could have entered, but some people wanted to know how to get here from MSN's home page.
To see a list of girls from your town, choose Female from Gender and select United States in Country. It should then display a new screen where you can choose the state. If it doesn't, fill out the town anyway. If it does redisplay a new screen, select the State and then fill in the name of the town.
If you want to see only the ones with pictures, click that check box.
Click Search and browse through the list to see what the girls have revealed about themselves.

You can do a similar search for boys in your community.

Kids may also have accounts on Yahoo or AOL, which have similar ways to search for profiles.

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Thursday July 24, 2008 Site Links Home About Resources Workshops NSSRS Admin Resources ESU Links ESU Home Network & Information Services Professional Development Special Education Administration Administration Login	Profiles Profiles are created when a person applies for an account for the purposes of using Instant Messenger or for entering MSN chat rooms. If you listen to your students, you'll know they "chat" a lot, especially when they get home from school. This is where they make "new friends," but these new friends may not be who they say they are. That's what's so scary! The profile contains info boxes which are all OPTIONAL except for the account name. It has categories for first and last names, town, age, hobbies, interests, favorite sayings, music, etc. Most of them think this information is harmless, which most of the time it is. But predators, who want to "groom" a victim, use this info to earn a false friendship. Here are the steps to see who has a MSN profile in a specified town. Go to www.msn.com Click on My MSN near the top in the center of the window. Choose People & Chat in the navigation bar at the top. Click on Member Directory in the navigation bar at the left. Click on Advanced Search in the "Search this site" category in the navigation bar at the left.This will bring you to http://members.msn.com/find.msnw?rr=440171640 which you could have entered, but some people wanted to know how to get here from MSN's home page. To see a list of girls from your town, choose Female from Gender and select United States in Country. It should then display a new screen where you can choose the state. If it doesn't, fill out the town anyway. If it does redisplay a new screen, select the State and then fill in the name of the town. If you want to see only the ones with pictures, click that check box. Click Search and browse through the list to see what the girls have revealed about themselves. You can do a similar search for boys in your community. Kids may also have accounts on Yahoo or AOL, which have similar ways to search for profiles.
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