On Tuesday, we told you about Myspace.com, the wildly popular virtual party that connects teenagers around the world, sometimes with damaging results.

Today, we learn one local school district is confronting this growing internet giant head-on.

Most parents aware of Myspace.com have been concerned with the heavy sex content. But now we're hearing of serious problems with students as young as 13 involved in everything from sexual to racial harassment, prompting a prominent school district to take action.

Fourteen-year-old Callum Dickson became depressed and ended up changing schools after someone posted a hateful Web page about him on Myspace.com.

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“I just kind of felt betrayed. I couldn't stand it,” he said.

Myspace is a global network of blogs, chat and messaging where users post personal, often provocative profiles on-line and share them with the world.

It is the fourth most trafficked Web site on the planet with more than 37 million members and doesn't screen its content, resulting in painful episodes like Callum's and sometimes worse. A high school in San Antonio, Texas shut down last week after a hoax posted on Myspace about a terror plot.

Phil Geiger wrote an article about the phenomenon for his school paper.

He says the site plays to one major teen obsession.

“People like to be noticed,” he said.

Most schools already block blogging sites like Myspace.

But use at home is so pervasive the Lake Washington School District is implementing training for teachers, parents and students about Myspace and other sites like it after issues of harassment involving students using the site.

“I think that they range from petty typical kind of gossipy behavior to some pretty serious threats where students are fearful because of who they're hanging out with or race or religious affiliations,” said Chip Kimball, superintendent and chief information officer at the Lake Washington School District.

Chip Kimball, assistant says it’s the anonymity offered by sites like Myspace that can become destructive.

“Whenever there’s an anonymous situation, students take that as free license to possibly say things they wouldn’t say face to face. And it’s that anonymity that can actually be destructive,” he said.

As for the Dickson family, Callum's mom has this advice for parents.

“Every single parent who has a child online needs to talk to their children and they need to be educated themselves,” she said.

Counselors say while the content many teens post on Myspace is intensely personal, many don't think about the fact that it's all there for the world to see  and exploit.

Bottom line: Myspace belongs to everyone.