Tuesday, December 15, 2009
children and facebook or myspace
i know i'm too young to have a kid on facebook or myspace, but i have a neice that has both and she just turned 14. she has had this account for 2yrs. my neice has good pictures none of which are "dirty", but she does have some questioning friends and comments. she apparently got in an arguement on myspace with another person who was posting things under what she wrote. the girl and her got into an confritation at school and the other girl printed off what my neice said. her mom had no clue what she or the other was posting on the account. the mom also doesnt have a clue on who she is talkin to on there or where she knows them from. the mom does know that she has these things, but doesnt check them. i think that the mom should be checking this if she is allowing her to have this, but i thought myspace you are suppose to be 18? and isnt facebook suppose to be 14? facebook might be ok now, but she isn't old enough for myspace. some of the people she has as friends are random people that are older. i just couldnt believe she doesnt check it. ugh... times have changed and i'm only 21! (but i was raised with just a phone that i had to be off of by 7:30...)
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Jacque, I have kids that have facebook and myspace. But i also have both and for my kids to have there accounts, I made them add me as a friend so i can see there pages everyday. And you can count on me checking them . I'm really bad i check them every morning and every night.I think if parents are going to allow there kids to have the accounts they should be responsible and check them out.
ReplyDeleteI do not know the age limits for each of these social networks but I have heard My Space is much more open to viruses, stalking, and weirdness than Face book. I know my granddaughter (almost 15) has both accounts. I see her Face book account but am leaving her My Space account up to her mother to check on.
ReplyDeleteme and my fiances mom have tottaly different points of views when it comes to raising kids especially teenagers. shes way more relaxed than i am. it just seems weird to me that your child got in trouble from posting things on myspace and you continue to let her do things like that.
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