Kids on Facebook

Has someone nicked my “anyone without kid” post 😡

The shit storms (teaching term) facebook causes at school is unreal. Kids making friends with strangers and meeting them. Kids being bullied by people they don’t like at all but are friends with. Kids incriminating themselves on it. I hope to god that by the time I have kids faceache will have vanished.

When a teacher I ************* got kids suspended for a few days for posting pics of themselves smoking dope on a school trip I don’t know what made me the most uncomfortable: young kids posting pictures of themselves smoking dope or a teacher going through students’ names on Facebook.

My son knows that Facebook is not allowed but that porn or anything else he chooses to look at with .fr or .de suffixes using “navigation privée” and “SafeSearch désactivé” while I’m out is tolerated.

He can spectate but not participate for the moment and seems to accept that.

OP – where’s your daughter using the computer? Does she have her own in her room, or is there a family computer in a ‘common’ area such as your living room where everyone is happy for others to be in sight of their online activity? This is a key distinction to make, and a key part of parental teaching of safe online behaviour.

A good point. We have two computers in the living room. “Do anything stupid on that one and your mother could lose her job, do anything stupid on that one and your dad could end up in prison”.

My two nephews pestered their mum into it long before the actual “allowed” age. They’re right pains in the arse on it, but they do have some sexy friends.

@Deadlydarcy – aren’t the friends also children? 😯

Yes, sorry, it was my attempt at a bit of edgy humour…the moment has passed though 🙂 🙁

There’s a social network site for kids. Don’t know what it’s called. Will probably be nowhere near cool enough if she’s allowed on it tho.

If you let her push you into stuff like this at this age (I’m assuming she’s pestered rather than you trying to be ‘friend-dad’) then she’ll be a right pain in the arse 3 years down the line.

The young lads in this area seem ok, it’s the teen girls who give it the big un shouting and swearing on their way home from school. I blame you.

(I don’t really)