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No More MySpace at Tulsa Libraries
   posted 3:55 pm Mon August 20, 2007 - Tulsa
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If you want to use the popular socializing website mySpace at any Tulsa County library, you will be out of luck. The Tulsa Library Commission has banned the site from all of its computers. They have put up a pop-up block page if anyone attempts to log on.

The commission made the decision after receiving dozens of complaints from parents, saying the pictures posted on some of those sites are inappropriate.

NewsChannel 8 myTAKE - What's Your Opinion?"There were complaints about the content on mySpace images popping up on the screen so others in the library could see them," says Mike Meienheimer.

Some mySpace users are outraged by the decision.

"I'm 23 years old and now the library is telling me I can't get onto mySpace? I don't think they are my parent."

"I don't have the Internet, I don't have a computer at home, so this is my only place I can check my mySpace account," adds Haley Hindman.

But, some others say some of the things you find on mySpace don't exactly belong at the library.

"These computers are supposed to be away from sex and stuff," says Yorlandy Salgado. "And those kinds of sites, mySpace is full of that."

No matter what side library patrons are on, officials say the decision is final for now. The commission plans to monitor mySpace to see if it makes any changes, like having tighter censors. If that happens, they may change their decision and allow mySpace back in the library.

Another social website, Facebook,  is still allowe. The commission says that site has stricter guidelines, making pictures more appropriate. The Pioneer Library System just outside Oklahoma City has also banned mySpace.
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