Summer Camp Directors Join the MySpace Haters Club

[mandy]

Summer camp directors have a new scourge, and it is not mosquitoes or impetigo. It is the Internet, specifically sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, where young people often post personal or revealing information.

Camps say they are increasingly concerned about being identified in photographs or comments on these sites, even innocuously. They worry about online predators tracking children to camp and about their image being tarnished by inappropriate Internet juxtapositions — a mention, say, of the camp on a site that also has crude language or sexually suggestive pictures.

"This is probably the No. 1 issue facing all camp programs,"...

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/techno....html?_r=1&oref=login