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Experts warn parents of the lure of teen social sites

Originally published: March 27, 2010 8:52 PM
Updated: March 27, 2010 8:55 PM
By CAROL POLSKY  carol.polsky@newsday.com

BABYLON, NY. THURSDAY MARCH 25, 2010. Family and

Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa | BABYLON, NY. THURSDAY MARCH 25, 2010. Family and friends gathered outside Boyd Spencer funeral home in Babylon during a memorial service for 17-year-old Alexis Pilkington who killed herself during the weekend.

When Victoria Woods of Bethpage recently happened upon her 16-year-old daughter's laptop, left open on the girl's page on the popular Internet site Formspring.me, she was enraged by what she found.

Nasty comments, written anonymously.

The site's users invite anonymous questions. But Woods later found out that her daughter had been so shocked by the first anonymous comment she got that...

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