Do You Know Where your Kids are at ...?

I had just seen this .. Plz!! read this ... So sad

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/usnews/060510a.asp


My Space .com isnt safe ...

I have to admit the teen second life proponents seem to have been correct.

Since even the worst things we thought about Teen Second Life doesnt hold a candle to the stuff that goes on in My Space.

Yep, she's asleep for a nap.

But if myspace is still around when she's a teenager, I'll be watching her every move.

My children are all grown and they have to worry about where there children are now. I am free.

I just recently made a account at there.com and i found out it don't have any policy about teens. Of course i saw no nudity but still. I wander how many people are teens there. I went there to see what was out there hehe. The anoying thing is theres way too many guys wanting to date me even if I'm in a newbie avatar with no profile. >.> It makes me wander...

Unfortunately the entire internet isn't safe, this is nothing new. Sad but true...

Moving this to off topic, because while important isn't really about SL

The world in general isn't "safe", but the anonymity of the internet has made predators a little harder to spot. Myspace isn't a cause of it nor are they especially unique.

My daughter is in high school and she understand very well that her continued use of the internet comes with one standard disclaimer: we always have the right to read her emails or review her URL logs at any time, and that she has no real rights to privacy in that respect until she grows up, moves out and buys her own PC.

We're not meanies, we take our responsibility as parents very seriously.

That said, every once in a while she gets a friends request on Myspace that makes me shake my head. Usually it's either some random guy hitting on her, or sometimes an invitation to a girl's webcam site (thinly disguised phishing for porn). She is very good at sharing those with me, and I've shown her how to report the porn invitations to Myspace. They very quickly disappear.

MySpace is no more evil than my little finger..

the problem isn't with MySpace and how "accesible" the porr widdle teenagers are, the real danger is STUPIDITY!

these kids think "oh yay.. i can share my deep thoughts with my friends" and, for some inexplicable reason in todays internet-laden age, they don't stop to think "hmm, Mr. Molester can read this too". i mean seriously folks.. is it too much to teach these kids to not share personal info?

i see people leaving cell phone numbers in comments on peoples main page! SAY WHAT?!?

maybe if their parents would teach them to quit being so stupid they might not have so many problems.. just maybe?

feh..

OMG!!! RESMODS!!!

Linkdrop: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/plot.foiled.ap/index.html

Didn't read it so I can't comment on how stupid any of the involved parties are.

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I have to agree with The Quirk.

A sentence you should not end a preposition with.

Musuko.

watch out...your participle is dangling...

This is the sort of English up with which I cannot put.

There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition. Although sentences that end with a proposition are better.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=preposition

However, as you note the final "at" in the title question doesn't sound right. Asking: "Do you know where your children are?" Doesn't hurt the ears as much. However, I still don't know what the ellipse was for.

since my three year old can't even pronounce internet right now i ain't going to worry about it. now as for the semantics, i ain't got no need for that high learned stuff. say anyone got any skoal?

This reminds me of PSA when I was a kid. It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are. Which was my cue to switch channels to watch Monty Python.

"There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition."

In certain circumstances. "Do you know where your kids are at?" is not one of them. The "at" is superfluous. You wouldn't say "Do you know where your kids are where?" would you?

It's "Do you know where your kids are?" or, pushing it, "At where do you know your kids to be?"

Adding a superfluous "at" in "where are you" and using "alot" seems to be the two big crimes commonly committed mostly by Americans. What's the cause?

Our side of the Atlantic seems more guilty of "ain't" and "could of". "your/you're and they're/their/there" seems truly international.

/pedant.

Musuko.

I know where my kids aint!!

I Dont have any kids. Besides, dogs & cats are easier to deal with.

Which is what I said. Its not wrong because its a preposition at the end of the phrase. Its wrong because its superfluous.

"Which is what I said. Its not wrong because its a preposition at the end of the phrase. Its wrong because its superfluous."

It's a superfluous preposition, so guilty on both counts. Might it be a tautology too?

My two Lindens: Your kids are old enough to freely wander the information super highway when they are old enough to drive on the real ones.

Musuko.

Wheh, just checked and they are still locked in that closet where I left them.

You had me scared there for a minute.

(Or is it "you had me scared a minute there?)

Myspace.com is no more evil and accessible to evil jackasses than IRC, ICQ, MSN, AIM, or Yahoo are. It's just showing up all over the news because a) it gets ratings, and b) people are easily scared, and c) the big networks did it first.

Our local network news programs have been doing weekly stories on the "evils" of Myspace for about a month now. It's getting really dumb.

IF you can't pay attention to your kid long enough to see that he's spending time on MYspace (not that hard; the website is slow as fuck, ugly, blinking, and loud), and on top of that talking to weird, older men... then maybe you shouldn't have reproduced.

When I was wee, the computer was set up in the dining room, in the middle of the house. Consequently everyone in the house could see what was on the computer at any point in time.

Protip: If you don't want your kids talking to strange men with dangling participles, don't give them a computer/laptop in their room.

Hear Hear!

You could also try sitting them down and talking to them about it. TEACH them some common sense.

And teach them to watch out for green zombie cubes of death. Those things are scarey...

A lot of girls are really dumb too.

I've seen 14-year-olds posing in their underwear on their profiles for MySpace ...

Stupid parents.