ABSTRACT

In April 2006, 19-year-old-Pete Solis of Travis County, Texas, came across a profile on MySpace that caught his attention. The information on the MySpace profile of “Julie Doe” identified her as a 14-year-old first year high school student, and Solis had no reason to doubt she was who she said she was. Solis’s own MySpace page said that he was an 18-year-old high school senior and football star. The two had numerous interactions via MySpace and over the phone before agreeing to meet in real life for a date; in each of these instances, neither Solis nor Doe told the other that their MySpace profiles were not entirely accurate.