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 Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:03 am
personally, i don't think children under the age of 12 should be allowed to access the Internet or if they do, they should be closely monitored
i find it very disturbing that a 7 year old girl can freely access the Internet, get on Gaia, and send me a message saying that she is interested in me
i am 18 years old...
there are men who are way older than me on Gaia and have very different motives than i do that would not have taken the time to explain to this girl that she is way to young to be talking to me or anyone else the way she was on the Internet
this is just me talking...but what do you guys think?
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:12 am
I think certain sites are fine
for school and such
but I agree they should be closely monitored
small children tend to be easily manipulated
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:31 pm
there's no problem with any over 10 on the internet if they are watched by there parents because there are creeps on the internet who might stalk them or kidnap them
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:11 pm
14 and under makes me nervous personally 15...acceptable. 16 better. Am I too much of a worry wort?
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:24 am
Trust me, most kids already have or will have a myspace, facebook and etc by the time they are 11
But yes your correct it is disturbing that a seven year old girl is on Gaia, especially with all the explicit things I’ve seen on here
My philosophy is
under ten= only school related websites, closely monitored
ten through the kid moving out= online chat rooms etc are acceptable so long as the sites are approved by the parent(s), monitoring will still be in place though, maybe not to the same level but if your concerned about your child’s safety then maybe even higher
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:44 am
I agree, but I think kids under 14 should be closely monitored. When they hit high school, there really isn't much you can do to shelter them, for lack of a better term, after that.
Some of the stuff I've seen accessible to kids on MySpace, FaceBook and YouTube is horrifying. Let alone some of the searches Google or Yahoo churn out, even with the SafeSearch set to strict. :/
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:37 pm
trust me they will probably hear worse at school .................. i know i do stare
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:07 pm
This is where a lovely creation called "Parental Blocks" are installed into the internet. In fact, I can click on the tools right now and find it. You can select which sites are accessible to a child and which are not judging by the cookies of the site they are trying to access.
Much like computers at school when some can't even go on Photobucket anymore. It knows.
However, some things are simply going to happen. Children are going to be exposed to just about anything and everything eventually. It's the parents' role to help guide and teach children what is acceptable and what isn't. Help make choices.
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:45 pm
ever heard of hacking?
my friend hacked the library computers and unlocked youtube, myspace and all sorts of other stuff and the funny thing was, the librarian was okay with us listening to music but she had all the other sites blocked again lol
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:38 pm
Twelve years and under? Hacking?
Then by this time the child may not even need to be monitored if they are that smart or have been exposed that much already.
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:51 pm
Anyway parental controls are easy to remove, if your parents leave the administrator account open or they let you on all you need to do is change it and trust me it will be a long time before they notice
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:53 pm
I'm not saying it's a solid proof plan, but it has been used and it does help because some parents aren't as forgetful to keep these things locked away from children. It's all about what the parents' opinions of what is acceptable or not, what they can trust their children with or not, and so on.
Tell me, how did we go from hacking to neglectful parents forgetting to lock their parental keys? Even if there were none or if the child found out it, perhaps they would be mature enough to handle the certain things they wish to see or are curious about.
You can't shelter your children from everything.
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:10 pm
Parental blocking?
*snicker*
You honestly think that will stop even a third of those kids?
You are sadly mistaken, my friend...
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:49 pm
XxXTemporary_IllusionXxX ever heard of hacking? my friend hacked the library computers and unlocked youtube, myspace and all sorts of other stuff and the funny thing was, the librarian was okay with us listening to music but she had all the other sites blocked again lol you don't really have to hack school computers... all you need is a good proxy
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:41 pm
i think that some sites and definite monitering for kids ages 10 and under, but outside of that its fine....monitering for certain sites, or parental approval. I think most of the nasty stuff on the internet isnt that bad, i mean you hear most of it at school anyway...A day has yet to come when i dont go to first period and not hear a "that's what she said!" xd I mean, most kids if you teach them about the people who track kids on the net will be pretty careful.
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