Myspace?

[texas*princess]

what's the deal with people creating Myspaces for their dogs?

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

what's the deal with people creating Myspaces for their dogs?

I had a chapter sister who made one for her guniea pig. I refused to add it as a friend, she got pissed. Then it died. I think the myspace page is still up though. Now I need to go see.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

what's the deal with people creating Myspaces for their dogs?

That's what dogster.com is for.

My daughter and all her friends have deleted their My Space accounts now because "it's boring". It's soooo last year, you know? Ah well, less for me to check up on now.

Originally Posted by AGDee

That's what dogster.com is for.

My daughter and all her friends have deleted their My Space accounts now because "it's boring". It's soooo last year, you know? Ah well, less for me to check up on now.

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.

[texas*princess]

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/18/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Would this seriously hold up?

Originally Posted by texas*princess

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/18/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Would this seriously hold up?

Um, what happened to parents actually taking responsibility for their kids and monitoring their online use?

Seriously AGDee, you need to teach a class to some of these parents!

[winnieb]

The IT department put a blocker on Myspace at work!
I know there were some people on there all day long-- but come on.....

[_Lisa_]

Originally Posted by winnieb

The IT department put a blocker on Myspace at work!
I know there were some people on there all day long-- but come on.....

I was pretty pissed when my work blocked MySpace & LJ, but after getting some really inappropriate picture comments, or coming across the random profile with a half naked chick, I'm glad they blocked it or I'd be fired for viewing them by now.

Originally Posted by winnieb

The IT department put a blocker on Myspace at work!
I know there were some people on there all day long-- but come on.....

Proxy servers are key. That's how I access it at work.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by OTW

Um, what happened to parents actually taking responsibility for their kids and monitoring their online use?

Seriously AGDee, you need to teach a class to some of these parents!

You should! And while you're at it, PLEASE educate high schoolers and collegians as well, who for some reason think that parents, schools administration, potential employers, family friends, youth group leaders, etc. can't see what they post. It's frustrating watching people post pictures of them drinking underage, giving way too much information about their bodies at parties, or even doing drugs. Even though there have been articles about it in the papers, they still think they're safe, and they're only hurting themselves. Parents DO need to monitor the sites to make sure their kids aren't being downright stupid as far as safety and image is concerened.

I always know not to post things on my myspace or facebook that would upset my mom...because I guarantee she's looking at them!

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

I always know not to post things on my myspace or facebook that would upset my mom...because I guarantee she's looking at them!

Even though my mom's pretty aware of what goes on in my life, I'm glad that she doesn't know to use a computer. How do I know? She's so old school that she doesn't know how to use the DVR.

And today's bit of MySpace news:

This morning I logged on to MySpace only to find 203492803948234 of my friends posting bulletins entitled "DELETE THE HACKERS!"

Apparently, if you go into your Edit Friends, you'll see Red X's with This Profile Has Been Deleted. This bulletin claims that these Red X's are hackers that somehow got into your profile. SO NOT TRUE. These are actually your friends that have deleted their profiles. Until recently they just appeared as ghost profiles in your friend counts. Now you can actually get rid of them.

Hopefully my friends will eventually get a clue because their bulletins are just damn annoying!

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AGDee

That's what dogster.com is for.

My daughter and all her friends have deleted their My Space accounts now because "it's boring". It's soooo last year, you know? Ah well, less for me to check up on now.

You may want to make sure that they don't just do Facebook instead.

[AGDee]

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.

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

You may want to make sure that they don't just do Facebook instead.

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!

[UGAalum94]

Yes! Good luck! It does sound like you are doing an excellent job.


There's high school facebook now, but as far as I know, no middle school facebook.

If I had kids, I don't know how I'd handle it. I think having one family computer for the kids, so they knew you could check the history might be a start (but they can still use other computers).

I think showing them the risks is probably the best way to encourage them to be careful.

[Stef the Pef]

Facebook is open to everyone now, so theoretically, I guess I middle schoolers could join on a regional network or no network. CREEPY.

That was my main reservation against joining myspace (and why my myspace profile that I reluctantly, finally got is private with very little information on it) and I'm angry that facebook's been moving in that direction for a while now. I didn't want highschoolers on there (and creepy old men pretending to be highschoolers)...why on earth would I want to open it up to people out of school, too?! Yeeeuch.

Hooray privacy options!