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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:29

Was performing my normal parental inspection of facebook for young teen, adjusting security settings etc and whilst checking his friends an older lady profile picture came up. So checked it out and it's some bible bashing American who had had asked to be friends. Two messages, "Oh thought you were my child", so mine returns "No i'm not", she then asks where he lives, dopey child replies UAE. She returns, "Oh that's nice". Dopey teen then obviously can't be bothered to engage in converstaion and just ignores her.

I had great delight in deleting her but am now quite niggled by it. Why would you engage in conversation when you know you have the wrong friend? What's up with the woman? Anyway deleted and will be explaining yet again about the dangers of social media however innocent someone appears.

Trouble is although i am a friend and have full access (that's the rules) i hardly ever go on to check as normally just school mates and is dopey one hardly uses anyway. Was i being a bit neurotic?

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Latest post on 19 February 2011 - 07:23

I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world? It does not matter how old my kids are. They use FB, but since I am fairly savvy on the pc/internet and I have blocks in place on my router, there is little chance of any harm coming to them. My point is that most of the Moms I know can not and do not monitor their childrens fb accounts. One Mom recently told me that her DD had never been on a bus before, and informed her that she had and she also had pics on her fb of her on the bus with her friends. The Mom was surprised but said she did not know how to use fb. I said she should have her DD's password and take her time to browse it when her DD is at school. She could not be bothered, bottom line. Just for the record, my kids have no friends outside the country and they always have email, you know. They have plenty of time for all of this, but for now, they can learn how to use it within my boundaries. So it's okay for your kids to use social networking websites but the rest of us should be prosecuted if we let ours use them? My three kids have facebook accounts, one also has twitter and one linkedin. They are all closely monitored by us and the kids are actually very good. Your kids may not have friends outside of the country you live in, but mine do and Facebook and Skype provide them with a fantastic means of staying in touch and informed of what's happening in each others lives. Maybe you should learn to be less judgemental of others.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 19:22

Just be careful that your children haven't got a profile under an altered name that you know nothing about. well if you use keylogger, there will be little chance of that ;) Get with the program simp No, my own child hasn't done it, but a friend of hers did a couple of years ago. They seem to be into BBM nowadays, rather than FB. ah yes, another thing altogether......start a new thread?

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 19:03

Just be careful that your children haven't got a profile under an altered name that you know nothing about. well if you use keylogger, there will be little chance of that ;) Get with the program simp No, my own child hasn't done it, but a friend of hers did a couple of years ago. They seem to be into BBM nowadays, rather than FB.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:56

Just be careful that your children haven't got a profile under an altered name that you know nothing about. well if you use keylogger, there will be little chance of that ;) Get with the program simp

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Just be careful that your children haven't got a profile under an altered name that you know nothing about.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:48

Another thing I am teaching my kids is that everyone, even their friends, are wearing some kind of mask online. Some are just more adventurous whilst others are sinister. If an old lady comes up to you in the mall you can usually tell what kind of person she is. Online, the chances are that they are the complete opposite. Another habit kids have is collecting as many 'friends' as possible online, so they add friends of friends etc etc...in the end, nobody knows who these friends are and where they joined up..... so the rule is, if you know the person, in person and they are from your age group then you can add them. Good advice Ess.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:43

Another thing I am teaching my kids is that everyone, even their friends, are wearing some kind of mask online. Some are just more adventurous whilst others are sinister. If an old lady comes up to you in the mall you can usually tell what kind of person she is. Online, the chances are that they are the complete opposite. Another habit kids have is collecting as many 'friends' as possible online, so they add friends of friends etc etc...in the end, nobody knows who these friends are and where they joined up..... so the rule is, if you know the person, in person and they are from your age group then you can add them.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:39

I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world? It does not matter how old my kids are. They use FB, but since I am fairly savvy on the pc/internet and I have blocks in place on my router, there is little chance of any harm coming to them. My point is that most of the Moms I know can not and do not monitor their childrens fb accounts. One Mom recently told me that her DD had never been on a bus before, and informed her that she had and she also had pics on her fb of her on the bus with her friends. The Mom was surprised but said she did not know how to use fb. I said she should have her DD's password and take her time to browse it when her DD is at school. She could not be bothered, bottom line. Just for the record, my kids have no friends outside the country and they always have email, you know. They have plenty of time for all of this, but for now, they can learn how to use it within my boundaries.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:31

I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world? I think I've seen her say her children are 30 and 45 respectively and keep in touch via their special gift of ESP... is that right? ... I think it's all just too accessible. My relative put her age as 18 (she's' 14) and luckily my Aunt saw it and contacted her mother, but the question was why she did it. I remember doing it and it wasn't for anything serious, it was just so I could access he site, but still... Although, in this day and age the younger you are the more of a target you are so it's probably safer to have your child listed as a 30 year old rather than a 13 year old. edited by AmyAus82 on 18/02/2011 LOL, yes i agree it's very accessible and it's not really my thing, i tend to pick up the phone or use email, but the reality is that Facebook is here and kids are using it. So work with kids to explain the dangers and monitor it just as any parent should with any activity any child is doing. It's just another form of responsible parenting. The only downfall is that i'm not very savvy with it, but thanks to AS and some of the posters on here quickly addressed the situation and explained to DS how to block, we did it together.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 18:27

I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. My goodness Essqueue you always go over the top, for goodness sake as long as it is correctly supervised it's fine for young teens. DS just had his B'day and all his buddies from his BS sent him a happy B'day message, when you have expat kids in BS you need to handle communication and friendships with an extra understanding. It's hard enough for kids being expats, facebook provideds them with a way of maintaining friendship groups from all their various homes in the world. Have to say there is no nasty stuff or bad language on any of pages i looked at, just hello's and well written messages. .

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 16:01

My daughters friends, all aged 9 are on FB - listed as being 14/15. They've already started posting posed photos of themselves and some of them have open profiles. Outrageous IMO.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 15:19

I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help. How old are your children and how do they stay in touch with friends and family all over the world?

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I think that all social networking sites should be 16+ and parents of children who access them should be prosecuted. Perhaps having to use a CC to have an access code would help.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 14:54

Thats if 'she' is even a she. Glad they have been blocked! That was my thought, great cover though, nice old lady face , law enforcement on education, lost of links to the bible, all posts on wall bible related. *pass the bucket* No, not neurotic. The following has been widely publicised today - its not the usual DM scaremongering http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357897/Facebook-***-gang-Parents-16-000-victims-sent-warning-letters-attacks.html <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 18/02/2011</em>

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 13:38

I thought your teenagers were in boarding school in the UK. Yep , still have access to facebook though to keep in touch with buddies, which i don't mind. (half term now) <em>edited by Sticky Wicket on 18/02/2011</em>

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 13:37

I thought your teenagers were in boarding school in the UK.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 13:33

To the question if you're neurotic, it depends... Did you do it because you thought he was trying to replace you and maybe have a mother affair (a cyber mum)? OR, did you do it because you love your child and know that children don't realise the dangers of the world as you do and you don't want him to learn the hard way? If it was the first one, neurotic. If it was the second one, a normal mother. How long do i get to decide? LOL

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 11:03

Make sure you monitor his friends. I've known people to set up fake profiles to get around them being blocked. So many freaks in the world it's worrying. Also, even if you have someone blocked they can still see you on someone elses friends list if you have mutual friends. Won't be able to contact you through that profile, just can see your name and photo, but they'll know you are live on FB. <em>edited by Nobbles on 18/02/2011</em>

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 10:54

I've had the chat and explained about grooming etc, not that they really understand, but just said delete anything like that in future. I think that it is brilliant that you are open about the grooming process. It only works when kids are not aware that they are being groomed. I will certainly do this with mine when the time is right. Great idea SW

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 10:21

there's also a setting whereby people have to actually message you before they are able to send a friend request, which many spammers/ dodgy people won't do.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:59

Thats if 'she' is even a she. Glad they have been blocked! That was my thought, great cover though, nice old lady face , law enforcement on education, lost of links to the bible, all posts on wall bible related. *pass the bucket*

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:56

Thats if 'she' is even a she. Glad they have been blocked!

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:54

But get this her name was so plain jane and it says on education 1 year law enforcement college, yeah right honey, you obviously failed the child protection bit then.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:54

Ha ha Shellly, we've just done it so now he knows how to block now. (thans AS for that) No worries, there's some right weirdo's on the net!

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:52

Ha ha Shellly, we've just done it so now he knows how to block now. (thans AS for that)

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:44

What a weirdo, glad you deleted the person. As previously mentioned, block that person. Yep going to do that now, but it is weird isn't it? Of course the mind goes into overdrive! Yes, its VERY weird. If you want to 'test' your son to see if he accepts random people again, let me know! ;)

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:43

You have to go into the privacy settings, then at the bottom left there's a part called blocked list, you can put people on it that you don't want to ever see you on Facebook, basically means they can't search for you, cant add you can't see anything you do. Thanks AS will do that, have set security up for friends only on everything, is that about right?

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:41

You have to go into the privacy settings, then at the bottom left there's a part called blocked list, you can put people on it that you don't want to ever see you on Facebook, basically means they can't search for you, cant add you can't see anything you do.

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:39

What a weirdo, glad you deleted the person. As previously mentioned, block that person. Yep going to do that now, but it is weird isn't it? Of course the mind goes into overdrive!

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Latest post on 18 February 2011 - 09:38

No, not neurotic, just responsible. In our house if anyone adds a person without prior permission then EVERYONE gets a collective fb ban for one week. It seems to work better that way. I'm not sure why it has niggled me so much, but it really has, i almost sent her a message but thought better of it. I've had the chat and explained about grooming etc, not that they really understand, but just said delete anything like that in future. No need for a ban as i had set no rules like that.

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