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Myspaceforparents owned by a fraudster


The quirk blog recently had a posting up on the Myspaceforparents.com website, which I totally agree with. I find it shocking that parents take stalking to be the answer, and not to mention anything about the design of the site!

That’s not what this post is about though. What I find so greatly ironic is that the myspaceforparents.com is registered by Chris Barnett. I don’t really know who Chris Barnett is, so I Googled him (this is a favourite tactic for fishing out all kinds of juicy details) and eventually found this:

Chris Barnett of Brighton High School in Brighton Tenn. made a fake
MySpace of his assistant principal. He posted about the assistant
principal acting inapropriately around female students. Barnett was
then thrown out of school. Did his parents admonish him for not finding
a more reasonable way to address his concerns about the assistant
principal? Of course not. They’re suing the school.

Haha! So either a wonderfully wierd twist of events. or Chris Barrett is seriously taking the piss!

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