FACEBOOK has negative effect!!
By jinkeemie
@jinkeemie (21)
Philippines
April 21, 2011 10:08am CST
Mind if i tell you guys that facebook affects us, prior to the minors. Actually in our village lots of kids are in with the facebook. Cafe owners are allowing them to surf the net. It ends up not going to school. Why would they allow children doing stuffs in facebook actually...
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
21 Apr 11
Cafe owners are allowing children to use facebook kind of like giving a candy bar.
they want money off the cafe so luring the kids in gives the owners money.
Its a business and businesses only thrive if there is profit.
Unfortunately getting that money can be done with not the best interest of family and kids.
That is where parenting comes in to get children go to school.
I am not sure what country you live in. But I have to say I admire different countries such as China, Russia, etc because most of their children are very well educated. I have had the pleasure of working side by side with these young people when they are in colleges here in the United States. And very brilliant indeed.
Its just like here though if we allow our children to have to much time on facebook, movies, video games its all the same thing. Parents work and sometimes both do and it makes for a very hard day to know your chlld is doing the right thing unless you have spoken to the school and get updates if the child is doing something wrtong and you get to give correction to the child,
Anything in a great amount can be addicting. The internet is one of them.
I hope you will find a happy medium if you have children.
@jinkeemie (21)
• Philippines
21 Apr 11
That is so nice to hear from you.. I will be a good mother someday.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
22 Apr 11
I wish you the best with parenting. I was a mother of 5. My first two girls were very obedient. the 3rd a boy every time I drove him to school, he would run out the back door and play hookey.
I caught on and while he was racing to the back door I drove around, and made him get in the car and take him in to the principal myself! LOL
My 4th a girl she was a chronic runaway. At 13, she had run away 7 times
Cops brought her back home. We would talk to Family Services, schools, psychologists, etc. Finally it was Labor day weekend First weekend in September. I drove my car to work, my husband drove his motorcycle. I called my daughter from work since they were off school til after labor day she had her little brother with her. I asked her if she wanted me to come get them for Lunch and go to a resale shop during my lunch hour.
She said yes, She left my son at neighbors which was ok as I knew the lady, and walked towards the resale shop. I picked her up and we drove over. She said...Can I cool off in the car? I said sure just make sure you bring the keys and lock up the car. So I went inside she gave me my keys back we shopped, then got lunch drove her back home and went back to work.
In the meantime my husband is coming home early which he usually did on Friday. he calls me at work as he was going to pack up before I got off and says...What did you drive to work?
I said..My car and you drove your bike so the truck is in the garage.
He said NO my truck is not in the garage. Someone has stole it.
I said well our daughter and son were home and she knew kids that had their license so maybe she is allowing someone to drive it without us knowing.
Then I noticed...she had taken our truck keys off my key ring while we were together. Yep so he called the police. Wanna hear what the police said?
Are you SURE you wanna report your car stolen by a 13 year old?
My husband and I both went bolistic here we were doing everything to keep this child intact and the police were not going to aid us finding a Cab plus full size GMC!
Well the cop finally comne to the door only he was like 45 minutes later
My daughter drove in the driveway (13) and when she saw her dad come out she litterally drove into the garage door!
We litterally made this cop that showed up AFTER the fact and could not prove she was driving...and said I can take her down but you have to prosecute her.
We got down to the police station and they were sending her home. We don/t have a place for minors they said. So I threatened to walk out and leave her. the police woman told my husband and I if we walked out the door WE would be charged with child abandonment.
Well we finally went to court. the JUDGE was gonna let her off. I stood up in the mediation room and said sir I am this girls mother do I not have a right to speak?
He said ok. I turned to my daughter and said she has run away 7 times, now she has stolen a full size cab plus truck with my 8 year old Child in in it. that is when the Judge said SHE had her little brother in the truck?
I said Yes sir, and we have done everything we can do and if you just send her home again nothing has changed.
He put her in a girls home for one year.,
We got to visit them once a week unless they had acted out and then we were not allowed to see them that week.
She was very coniving and played the rules
I told the workers I knew she was playing them. they said OH no she is doing really good.
Yea she did so good she got out the day before Christmas. She ran away again the day after Xmas.
It was very hard to see her take that road.
Fortunately now she is a mother of one and another on the way and has turned into a really good mom. So maybe I did something right other than her running away all the timne.
My baby son...he saw what his brother and sister did, and he basically attached hisself to me and always did everything with me and I wound up homeschooling him his last three years of high school. so having children and being a good parent does not always make you look the part kids have a mind of their own sometimes!
Hope I didnt scare you off from being a parent LOL
@babyanna (1216)
• China
21 Apr 11
Hi,there!
Yeah,certainly.Many social networking sites have this kind of effects.We have another site here in China,many students spend a large amount of time on it.They are just so eager to find out what their friends are doing and want to update their status every second.It's just crazy.I was addicted to it once,but now I'm out.I don't wanna waste too much time on it.
Well,it's pretty easy to account for the reasons.They want to attract more kids.With free access to the net,they can have more customers,and thus,more money.It's always like that.
@jinkeemie (21)
• Philippines
21 Apr 11
Why are they doing that? just for money sake, for profit I mean business are after with the profit but heLLo.... Children are innocent. They should be guided"
@fragilewings (316)
• Philippines
22 Apr 11
Some computer internet shops allow minors to rent their internet service to gain money. That's business as usual. I've been seeing computer shops who doesn't allow minors from entering their shops however, when you take a look inside, most of their customers are minors. I don't think that internet cafe owners really mind if their customers are minors because they need customers to run their business. Whether you're a minor or not, you're still customer and you're payment gives them income.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
21 Apr 11
Do they have truancy officers by you? I would call the school and complain that everyday you see kids in these cafe's during school hours. I know if our kids missed school we'd be notified and if the problem persisted we could be ticketed or taken to jail for them not going to class. I think the cafe has a moral obligation to not allow anyone under 18 in there during school hours.
@jinkeemie (21)
• Philippines
21 Apr 11
Yeah thats right and the government should play a role in regulating business like internet cafe's. And put sanctions if not obeyed.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
22 Apr 11
facebook would be a bad or good depends on how to use it. As with the knife, when used for something useful, like cooking, knife into something good, but if the knife is used to injure another person, the knife into something bad. As parents of teenagers, parents must accompany children. Always give direction and should not be banned. If prohibited child would have rebelled.
@ofabiania (421)
• Philippines
22 Apr 11
in our place, there is this ordinance made by our mayor that internet cafe's should never allow school age people to play games or surf the net during school hours.. if ever they will be not follow the said ordinance, they have to pay a certain amount or for constant violators, have their place closed.. as for the use of FB, it has its pros and cons just like anything else.. when used at the proper time and at the proper perspective it can be helpful unless otherwise.. :)
