understand the elements of communicating a threat. "DID THREATEN TO INJURE OR DAMAGE THE PROPERTY OF:____ AND COMMUNICATED THAT THREAT TO SAID PERSON (ON A PUBLIC FORUM WHERE PERSON COULD HEAR IT) IN A MANNER TO MAKE A REASONABLE PERSON BELIEVE IT WOULD LIKELY BE CARRIED OUT AND SAID PERSON BELIEVED THE THREAT MADE BY THE DEFENDANT WOULD BE CARRIED OUT..GS 12-77.1(a)

i will shoot you is a threat and someone probably told the victim it was there and he went to the site which is public and heard it.

ok hold up... i understand this guy robbed joe blow and for that he should be punished. however i do not understand how they can get him for communicating threats. why was joe blow looking at this guys myspace in the first place. This guy never said that he was going to kill joe blow, this article doesnt even say he spoke to the guy.. yes he put a song on his myspace that said blah blah blah .. so what? if i were to put "before he cheats" on my myspace that would mean I could go to jail because it proves that im going to go vandalized my boyfriends car?

Am I missing something here?? It seems to me that if it weren't for myspace, this thug would still still be out there plotting to harm a witness....instead, he posted a threat, it was reported to authorities and they acted...looks like the system worked for once to me.

in our home so that is not a worry from us. We found out she had accessed the acct at her friends house and did this. So guess what? Her password was changed to one she didnt know. The only way she could get into her acct was here at home when WE logged her on. Its not so hard to do!!! But seeing the way the other kids post sexual things and all the opportunites they are afforded as young impressionable minds, we decided to get rid of it til she is more responsible and we feel its ok for her to have it. If we as parents dont step up and take back some control of our children, then we are only asking for the bad things we get as results.

I have myspace and love it now that more of my far away friends and family are added. HOWEVER I totally agree that parents have to monitor what their kids are doing. I have a 15yr old as well as a 13yr old. We allowed the 15yr old to have a myspace acct, with us knowing the password. To make a long story short, her "friends" from school had inappropriate things on their profiles to the point of we had enough so she no longer has an acct. Is that mean to her? Maybe, but she has limited time on the computer and she doesnt go to friends houses like that so her only access is here at home. She is allowed on the computer only when we are home and her password is the same to everything she uses. We check her history and keep tabs on what they do. Its up to us parents to say this is right or wrong. They follow our example. When she had her myspace, she did try contacting a male friend and even put her picture up there from the one friends house she did go to. We have no webcams or digital cam