Here is the Mercury News story today (free registration) about MySpace, the hot social-networking Web site that is causing so much concern among Silicon Valley parents and schools that they are organizing to shut access to it entirely in some cases.

At San Jose's Presentation High School, administrators banned MySpace after discovering some students were logging on from school -- and that some had posted photos of themselves scantily clad and partying. School officials told...

their parents, and now, like many other schools around the Bay Area, Presentation is warning parents and students about the long-term implications of online postings.

...A quick search of local pages turns up photos of kids showing off cleavage, hoisting Corona beers and making obscene gestures for the camera...

It is interesting how stories develop and percolate at the Mercury News. The Merc's business section doesn't cover MySpace too closely because the company is not based in the valley. Now that MySpace's reach has impacted the community, inspiration for this story popped up elsewhere in the paper. So whether you are a valley company or not, if you have impact, good (see brief article by a teenager who comments about MySpace's benefits; just has to be used in the right way) or bad, the Merc will eventually cover you.

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