Anne Collier, editor of NetFamilyNews.org and co-director, with Larry Magid, of ConnectSafely.org, interviewed Christopher Gandin Le in 2007 when he was working as Resource and Information Manager at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Parents should also know that MySpace isn't the only social site working with the Lifeline, it's just the biggest (with 160 million+ profiles now) and the first. "The reason why we have a MySpace profile was that, a year ago, we realized it was our top referrer," Le told me. At that time "it was just 10 kids linking to us, putting a banner up on their profiles. We noticed that the number of referrals they sent was higher than those sent by CDC [Centers for Disease Control], SAMSHA [the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration] or any other suicide-prevention service."