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webmaster Mar 5 2006, 08:46 PM Post #1
What do you think about MySpace.com? Do you allow your children to visit it
and/or have their own homepages? If so do you require that they give you access
to their homepages?
My wife thinks the site should be banned by all parents period. I am beginning
to wonder if she may be right. Some of the stuff I have seen, and some of the
stories in the media really makes me wonder.
What do you think?
putkidsfirst Mar 5 2006, 08:57 PM Post #2
It's blocked here, but there are so many copy cat sites just like it. I monitor
EVERYTHING my kids do online, talk to them about it, look at it, etc. The
internet is such a huge part of teenage life you can't ban everything (too
difficult to do that) plus blockers make you lazy not looking at what is going
on, talking to your kids, etc.
I have a My Space account just to interact with kids I USED to work with
whoonce out of managed care started a My Space page!
sandylegsntoes Mar 7 2006, 09:44 AM Post #3
GREAT question!!! It is correct that there are opposing opinions regarding the
dangers of allowing young teens to use MySpace. Here is my experience with it.
I noticed that the teen girls were on MySpace quite a bit....from the time they
came home from school until they went to bed, with breaks for dinner. I made up
a MySpace "fake" profile and screenname and was invited into one of the teen
girls(14 yr old) space. (The rule is that they are not to invite strangers into
their space, but they do...hence, my fake person was invited in).
I was shocked to see the graphics and text content of this particular girls
space. She had cartoon soft porn pics (big breasted women in thigh high
stockings, lace panties bending over peeking out from between the legs) with
nasty, invitiing language as banners, a pot symbol, and bulletins with the most
foul content being sent out to all in her mailbox. This girl had her cell phone
number posted not only in a bulletin she sent out to tons of people, but also
in the profile 'describe yourself' section.
I let the residents know about the content of the site....verbally and in
writing. After a week, I checked the site to discover that only the pot leaf
had been removed. I asked the residents about it and they repliled that they
had the teen remove the pot leaf but the other stuff was okay..."just anime."
They had not noticed the teens cell phone number within her profile.
It was a great struggle for me to consider letting Admin know about it, but I
did. (I think I asked this forum advice about all this). Admin directed that
the inappropriate material be removed from the site.
A week later, the news started reporting on the death's of teen girls from
people met on MySpace.
I did NOT want to be right or "win" over the issue of the girl's MySpace. I
wanted to keep the girl safe, and it guide her to be a 'proper' young lady.
It is my opinion that the teens spend WAY TOO MUCH TIME on MySpace. They get on
it after school, regardless of failing academically, and stay on it until bed
time, breaking only for dinner and clean-up chores.
MySpace is an addiction for many of the teens.
IMO, teens should not be allowed to use the computer for 'fun time' if they
have under a C on their current daily grade. Time on the computer should be
EARNED. Everything that is received or sent out should be MONITORED. It's our
duty to protect the kids.
caring4kids Apr 24 2006, 07:07 AM Post #4
QUOTE(webmaster @ Mar 5 2006, 10:46 PM)
What do you think about MySpace.com? Do you allow your children to visit it
and/or have their own homepages? If so do you require that they give you access
to their homepages?
My wife thinks the site should be banned by all parents period. I am beginning
to wonder if she may be right. Some of the stuff I have seen, and some of the
stories in the media really makes me wonder.
What do you think?
Xanga is a big one here. We don't allow any of our girls to go any of these
sites. We have had to many problems with older men, or just giving out personal
information.
--Vonda
nmmommy Apr 24 2006, 08:33 AM Post #5
Kids have been allowed to have myspace sites up until this weekend. It's gotten
to be where that many of the kids have extremely inappropriate stuff on their
sites. So, admin chose this weekend to block all computers on campus from
accessing myspace. They probably will still do it at school and on home visits,
but at least we can protect them here on campus.
putkidsfirst Apr 24 2006, 08:38 AM Post #6
Well, Myspace is blocked where I work as well, but then you gotta hope your
kids don't find www.hoverspot.com and the many other places like that.
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