Internet help: For those of you regulars who like to give assistance via the Internet, here’s an interesting article the Help.com staff has been reading. - Help.com

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myspace is way too oversaturated with self promotion and spam, it can only get worse. so to answer you question, i think sites like this would serve as a better catalyst for that type of info circulating about in a useful manner. just make sure rupert doesn’t get his hands on help.com as well.

I think it will work for families but not so much for the general public information…

I don’t really get this. Wouldn’t any disaster severe enough to take out the telephone system also wipe the cable and fiber optics networks as well the electrical utility grid? Why would the internet be functioning when the telephones are not? Cell phones have too little battery life to be usefull after the power goes out.

It should be remembered that after Katrina the only functioning communication out of the NO’s disaster area was an old-fashioned payphone.

I’d have to agree with TheBlastedKing about Myspace. It’s way too saturated with self-promotion and spam to be used as a reliable source of information in the midsts of a disaster. Also, so many “fake” news bulletins go out on Myspace that it would probably just be ignored. It would have to depend on the website in order for the material to be trusted. CNN.com or FOXNEWS.com would probably be more trusted than Myspace.com.

A large enough EMP blast, like that after a nuclear explosion, would take out anything electrical, probably including cellphones so the only thing that would work would be messenger pigeons. :) haha

I can’t even set up my myspace accout it confuses me. I can just about work out Help.com thought. So maybe I wouldn’t be in to much trouble in the event of a disaster. Nice idea though

what it is - myspace? first heard about it