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Originally Posted by OTW
I can see how MySpace would be tres passe for your daughter and her friends, especially since their social network is limited.
I'm still addicted because I find old friends and former classmates every day.
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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
You may want to make sure that they don't just do Facebook instead.
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They are only in middle school and yes, their social network is limited. They won't be doing facebook for another 5 or 6 years. It's a relief to me because I was worried about some of the information some her friends were posting and even ended up doing an Internet Safety session for her Girl Scout troop because they were giving out way too much info about themselves, including age, school and pictures. I explained how a child predator could just sit in their school parking lot at the end of the day, watch which bus they get on, check the bus stop schedule online on the school district website and eventually, follow them home from school. All of them have working mothers and go into empty houses. It was pretty scary. I had trained my daughter well, but other girls didn't realize...
Once she's old enough to Facebook, she will be away at school and I'll have to trust that my "training" of her has succeeded and she will make good choices. I can only hope that I can give her the tools to succeed in life at that point!
As an aside, she turns 13 today. I am officially the mother of a teenager. Wish me luck!