Your kids on MySpace?
By lxrowe
@lxrowe (372)
Australia
April 12, 2007 6:50am CST
Do your kids get home from school and literally dive at the computer? Do they spend as long as they do at school in the one spot. Talking to strangers perhaps...
Does anyone know of anything I can do as a parent to let my children have a safer internet experience?
4 responses
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
15 Aug 07
aka:
how come Killforf's head is so big if he doesn't have a facking functioning brain inside it.
(Functioning for thinking/common sense rather than functioning for living, which he still manages to do, miraculously.)
... it must be those pastas sustaining his health.
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
15 Aug 07
I think that if there are older, perhaps wiser siblings who happen to use the same websites as the youngens, they should do their job at monitoring and making sure that they don't, say...
Give their passwords out to complete strangers that they meet and end up with their accounts hacked and stolen.
=P
ily.
@usaction (649)
• United States
13 Apr 07
First, and not to be disrespectful, but this doesn't belong under Myspace. If there's a PC or internet topic, it should go there. Myspace is a great place for bands, artists, and writers to share their talent with the international community, without the greed and lies of the big record labels.
In internet explorer, go into tool, options. On the window that appears, pic the Security tab. Pic the sites that are trusted and restricted. Also, do a search for terms such as "cyber nanny." Yahoo, as an example, has parental controls.
@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
12 Apr 07
My son is 7 1/2, and doesnt do the myspace thing (i wouldnt allow it, even if he wanted to!) but he does like to dive on there after he does his homework and play on webkinz, or cartoonnetwork.com, which is fine, but I monitor him. Especially if I see him sending an email. That's all you can do, you have to give them space but still be watching. It's a fine line I know, but if you make it too obvious that you are watching them they will just hide it more. So watch from afar, or pretend your doing something else if you need to. But just be there as much as you can to keep your eyes peeled.