Cleaning Up Our Collective Act

[jilena]

Not to state the obvious but I have never seen a single thing posted on this forum that you couldn't find 10X as bad on google in 30 seconds. If you let your kids use the internet unsupervised you are essentially introducing them to ANYTHING horrible you could think of and at least 10 million more things you never thought of. That's how the internet works. It's not for kids and neither are most online games. *shrug*

[ulrich]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not to state the obvious but I have never seen a single thing posted on this forum that you couldn't find 10X as bad on google in 30 seconds. If you let your kids use the internet unsupervised you are essentially introducing them to ANYTHING horrible you could think of and at least 10 million more things you never thought of. That's how the internet works. It's not for kids and neither are most online games. *shrug*

It's schools too that allow children on the net unsupervised. I guess everyone could home school their kids. Now with wifi and laptops.... hard to stop.

In highschool we had someone supervising AND a network admin at the library. My classmate would still put hardcore porn up on half of the pc's before we left. So when the next person used that pc. Bam they would get an eye full. You can't say a parent can supervise their kid 100percent of the time. They do have to go to school and all.

[jilena]

Originally Posted by ulrich [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's schools too that allow children on the net unsupervised. I guess everyone could home school their kids. Now with wifi and laptops.... hard to stop.

In highschool we had someone supervising AND a network admin at the library. My classmate would still put hardcore porn up on half of the pc's before we left. So when the next person used that pc. Bam they would get an eye full. You can't say a parent can supervise their kid 100percent of the time. They do have to go to school and all.

I understand what you're saying but the sad reality is there is no sane way to keep your children from being exposed to the adult world. The best you can do is educate them the best you can and try to foster some sort of open relationship where they are not scared to discuss new and strange things with you...

From my perspective assuming I ever have children, knowing the things I did as a child, I'll be overjoyed if their only vices are disturbing internet porn and being message board bigots that spew racial slurs and insult people without cause lol.