I became aware yesterday that my son had an account on Myspace.com (without our permission)so I got his user name and password and logged on. The site was filled with pictures, videos, surveys and a whole lot more. As I clicked on the related sites of my son's friends, I saw that pornographic sites have the abilility to enter kids' sites under the guise of being a friend. One site in particular was incredibly frightening and dangerous. It invited the kid to click onto this particular site which was hooked up to a webcam and offered pictures and videos of "Live Teens". This site was not only pornographic but was also predatory in the way that it tried to lure kids to the site and to participate. I've read articles on the rape crimes and the victims and suspects meet up through Myspcace.com. One of those articles are from and many others. If your child has an account on MySpace, get on there and check it out. Even if your child's site is fairly benign, check out what it is linked to. This isn't just "rebellious" kids who are doing this - it is a lot of our kids (kids who homeschool, kids from church, kids from youth groups, kids from Bible study). And the most important is talk to your teens, explain to them the extent that what might could happen to them and guide them not to make such wrong decisions.
a reminder to all parents.
by dannieboi 11 Replies latest social family
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TheSilence
Just bumping this to the top.
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Lady Lee
I suggest you call your local police and let them know about the sites. They can put you in touch with the organizations that are tracking these sites
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Q. Bert
Even us as adults must be alert to our electronic footprint. It's a creepy, insidious world these days. It's hard even to know who to trust, or where to find it. The news comes to close to home, at times.
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DJK
Welcome to the board Dannie. I have more bad news for you. There are college girls in my area that search myspace for people local and try to lure them out of myspace and onto regular e-mail. Then they try to solicit from there.
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stillajwexelder
scary
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Q. Bert
Good news is to know the extent of the bad news. Then the connections can be made, or disconnected, as you choose. Hopefully your children are close enough to you that you don't need to ask where they are, other than what they are thinking about. And then you can have a warm, open conversation so that your family can "take care" in the fullest sense of the phrase. — Q. Bert
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bikerchic
The Internet can be a dangerous place for the young and parents should not only monitor what their kids do online but set up things like this:
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Q. Bert
Monitoring cannot take the place of an in-bred set of safe values. Even adult get into situations "over their heads" because of like of proper direction, despite extra years of trial-and-error.
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lisavegas420
I set up a myspace account so I could keep an eye on my children (grown) and their friends. I don't care if they are 20 somethin' if I see any of them doing or saying things that seems questionable, I call or message them and ask them about it.
I messaged one girl, a friend of my son's that I had met a few time........she had a picture of her child and then a picture of herself smoking pot with her friends on same page. She removed the pictures.
I've messaged and called several after they've written about how much they hated their life and wanted to die. They're all still with us. Don't know if it had anything to do with me. Maybe they just wanted to know someone noticed.
Thanks for the warning, Danni...and welcome
lisa