If there are any parents out there, what is your opinion of 'My Space?' And, does your child have one?
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Personally, I think that message boards and chatrooms, should not be available to children under 18. That may sound harsh but here are my reasons, there is NO WAY for it to be monitored, there are WAY too many sick perverts out there that use it for their perverted reasons, you hear it time and time again, parents either do want or dont have the time to monitor to whom they are chatting or corresponding with, nor can they monitor what their child posts on an online message board or what they answer from said site. I personally dont think things like yahoo messenger, AIM, or MSN messenger are appropriate for them, for same reasons above. I just feel and it has been proven that it is just a huge pandora's box, it is used to undermine parents to a child who is experiencing problems in their household, it is used to lure children away with false promises, and basically it is one big LIE. If there was a way to MONITOR it, that was able to eliminate the majority of above stated reasons, then I would be a little more ok with it possibly. Till then, it is not that we have to fear so much the people our children come in contact with on a daily basis anymore, we have to fear the people in this little world called CYBERSPACE.\n\nThank you
909196
facebook or everyonespace?
1091009
My space is so addictive because it allows you to see a little bit into the life of friends, co-workers, and old classmates. People have taken time to design a web page and most write blurbs about themselves and their lives ; info and insight that you normally would not have gotten. And Hello its free !
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I have one and I like it for networking with the people of same interest.(Music, DJ, Music Artists networking, etc.)\nFrom my experience,\nIt's helpful for widening my music experience, but had the bad experience once. There was a time I was annoyed by certain individual. It just annoyed hell out of me.\n\nNow this is what I heard according to the friend.(he heard from the news supposedly)\n\nThere was a girl who worked for restaurant.(One of the popular fast food place) At my space, she mentions city that she lives at. The thing is... it's not a big city, so it only had very few fast food place. Guess what? The girl got raped and killed by the stalker. It seems that the stalker saw the picture of her and looked up for the place that she works. Because the city had very few of that fast food. He narrowed it down...\n\nmyspace.com is good? yes, but just be careful because there are some crazy people out there.
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hey i have four kids!! and i am telling you to get rid of it all together out of site out of mind!!!!! it really worked four times for me. they were all alittle over two when i did it!!!!!!!!
1007714
have u ever seen the show parental control on mtv. Its basically what it is. your parents control the things u watch, eat, hear etc.
963010
You could use a yahoo 360 page with strict parental controls so only people who know his email address can ask for permission to see his page, I am in the same situation with my 11 year old. We have an agreement that I'm added as a friend so I can see who she is adding.
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I have a myspace and I absolutely love it. \n\nBy the way the girl above me that goes by "kiss me" put that same response for a myspace question I posted. \n\nHer "answer" is kind of ironic considering how suggestive her name is.
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What exactly is your question? What would you like to know abut parental roles and government censorship? Do they exist? Do we need more of one or the other or even both? Please help so we can answer your question!
875395
I don't know much at all about my space.com but I know all the young people seem "hook up" on it but once you reach my age you find a technique that works for you for example I just walk around the lake behind the Condos I live in with a bottle of Rum and yell I NEED a man, and that seems to work pretty well.
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I think that myspace has some risks, but you just have to be careful. Don't talk with people you don't know. Also be careful about things that are posted on your page. Sometimes people can have enough details on their page to be easily tracked down. Its just like anything else in life....you must use caution. It is very sad to think that myspace could be outlawed because parents don't keep track of what their children are doing on the internet. Hopefully it never comes to that. It has been such a nice thing for me. I have found alot of old friends that I had not spoken to in years. I love myspace.
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I'd blame it on parents but unfortunately kids can go to any internet cafe or friends house and get on myspace...and they're going to if you don't let them. \n\nJust as well let them use it if they want and talk to them about the dangers of meeting strangers on there.\n\nThat's something you should be teaching your kid anyway.\n\nThe media likes to oversensationalize this kind of thing. Last year it was shark attacks this year it's myspace. Girls get raped on college campuses too it doesn't mean you shouldn't send your kid off to college.
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My kids seem to like a place called pointlesssites.com they seem to love it and it is kind of funny. It's a great resource for all of the silly things that people have out there one the web.\nIn non-internet related fun you can always read a good book or rent an old movie.
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Your child has NO right to privacy.  Any privacy you give your child is a respect that he or she has earned from you, not a right that they are given.  It's the parent's job to know what's going on even when the kid doesn't want you to and to try to guide them even when they don't want it.
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-How does your child learn best (visually, orally, kinesthetically)?\n-Is there anything your child is especially interested in?\n-Is there anything you think I should know in partciular about your child?
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I come from Boston,and our newspaper has printed over 350 articles in the last year about sexual predators using my space to get to kids,so yes, some may have been murdered.\n                Parents,do not let your kid post a profile.My space was originally for musicians to communicate with eachother,but somnehow it has gotton way out of hand.It serves no good purpose.Un like Yahoo answers that actually helps some people.
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Well, i like it myself..but it does get a bit boring. \n\nIt is not a bad thing. People talk about internet predators being all over it..all i can say is..parents should watch their kids more closely. \n\nIt is not the average users problem at all.