LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of the country’s most notorious street gangs have gotten Web-savvy, showcasing illegal exploits, making threats, and honoring killed and jailed members on digital turf.

Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street and others have staked claims on various corners of cyberspace. “Web bangers” are posting potentially incriminating photos of members holding guns, messages taunting other gangs and boasts of illegal exploits on personal Web sites and social networking sites.

“I’m just being real and I ain’t got nothing to hide,” said Kristopher “Kasper” Flowers, 30, a professed member of the 18th Street gang with facial tattoos of “18″ and “666.” The main 18th Street gang Web site has a link to “Kaspers World.”

Gangs once only roamed the streets of big cities but now can be found in 2,500 U.S. communities, according to the FBI. Police departments suddenly faced with the unwelcome arrivals are looking for help anywhere they can get it, including the gangs’ own easy-to-find Web sites.

George W. Knox, director of the National Gang Crime Research Center, said he has trained hundreds of police officials in how to cull intelligence on gang membership, rivalries, territory and lingo from these Web pages.

Link: Excite News - Gangs Use Internet to Showcase Exploits

86 million users are not enough for Rupert Murdoch Myspace.com will go regional this summer, opening a branch in German language, too. So MySpace really becomes the new MTV?

It is all about that…ich, me, moi,…io. Self-expression, self-love, self-experimentation. The web gives power to the people and people use the power to satisfy their needs and desires. Web is a dreamland in which narcissism and exhibitionism are the norm and voyeurism is a lifestyle. Just have a look to these two weird and obsessive projects and then tell me your theory about that.

The adaptation to my generation

Noah K Everyday