As I said on my comment over on your blog, I agree that if the Girl Scouts take the same steps as you’ve done to protect your family from the negative aspects of MySpace, then yes, it’s a great marketing tool and can help promote them.

Young girls, like the Girl Scouts don’t need to be on MySpace was my point.

Have you seen what happens with young girls on the site? They get all kinds of weird creeps asking for sex, drugs and other stuff.

This is why I said “We need to keep some innocence in America…” – “Especially with the Girl Scouts.”

I hear daily in my line of work from parents, teachers and city officials about how MySpace is causing issues for our youth and when I say youth, I mean the boys and girls under 17 years of age.

Girl Scout Cookies do enjoy great brand recognition, but most folks don’t know when cookie season starts in their community. And, awareness of cookie season is only half the reward. Actually knowing how and where you can purchase cookies is the real challenge. If you don’t happen to run into a Girl Scout selling cookies in front of a grocery store or work with a parent of a Girl Scout then you are pretty limited in terms of cookies access. Promoting the cookie program on the single most popular social networking site on the Web and then connecting that with a cookie-finder tool seems kind of like a no-brainer to me.

Agreed it’s another venue for getting the word out about the cookies, but common, what person living in America doesn’t already know about Girl Scout Cookies?

Every year they show up at stores, parks, schools and proud parents bring cookie order sheets to work… everyone knows about them… hehe… they don’t need to be on MySpace.

Besides, they’re not selling the cookies on the page. They give you a way to look up what troop is in your area, and where their “selling site” is, so you can go buy them from the local troops.

I’d be more worried if it was a page for an individual troop, who was selling their cookies online.

Not sure yet – you might want to see if Bush has his own MySpace. Maybe he blogs about committing war crimes?

I really hope MySpace doesn’t become considered an American tradition.