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What do you guys think about monitoring your child's internet use? Or will you monitor what they do online?

I just read about how the State of NJ gets about 15 complaints a week about MySpace.com.

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1141380946143140.xml&coll=3

If you read that, then read the article under "She's only 11!".

Little kids give out too much info on the net. I know you should at least monitor what the kids do. Just recently, I found my girl's cousin on MySpace and needless to say, I wasn't too pleased with what i saw on his page and neither was my girl. He thought we wouldn't find him but we did. Now my girl doesn't know how to tell his parents or even if she should.

state your thoughts about the whole thing...

nothing wrong w/ parental monitoring. thats not invasion of privacy thats watching out for your kids. no different than monitoring phone use, tv viewing etc

gov't monitoring on the other hand......

nah...i'm just mainly speaking about parents and what they would do.

hell yea i would monitor everything they did online.
alot of crazy mofos out there.

Hell yes! I would not only monitor my kids online activities but I would install some hooks in to SHDOCVW.DLL and MSHTML.DLL to replace all site content that I disapproved of with a picture of me pointing my finger out at the kid with a word bubble that says "NO!"

i think it all comes down to the fact that parents dont give a crap about their children. Who lets their child go apply for an internship through myspace? And of course theres the "what if they didnt know" well they should have. I didnt take a crap at someone elses house growing up that my mom didnt know about. Sure i hated it then and thought that she was was overprotective but when i got older i realized that a huge percentage of the people in this world are crap. So i think when your a child there is no such thing as privacy if you dont want your parents going through your stuff then you shouldn't have done whatever it was that you did to break the trust. Children are exactly that Children and parents need to start stepping up and doing their job. I cant tell you how many times a day i could steal children (if of course i did that kind of thing), at the grocery store, wal-mart everywhere. 3 and 4 year olds walking around by themselves while their 22 year old mom is bull****ing on the phone talking about how such and such loves such and such. Where's dhs?
anyway ive kinda gotten off topic, but i hate america's (i only say america because i cant speak on the rest of the world) parenting skills.

the parent should surf the internet with the child to ensure proper content, especially the very young. as they get older, they can get more freedom if they are being responsible.

it is too easy to get around protection and falsify all kinds of stuff

the bottom line is it should be used to help you keep your children safe on the internet, not as the total solution.

There is plenty of very effective software to keep children off of sites that they don't need to be on. (Which in my opinion is about 99% of the web)

Until you have the maturity level to use the internet properly, personally, I don't think you should be allowed to use it all.

I mean...11?

However, that software doesn't necessarily work if the kid goes to a friends house or even some libraries. I recently read that in one town/city, they are allowing people to access porn sites in libraries. They have signs to be considerate to others but that doesn't mean anything. And if it really bothers someone then they will put a privacy screen on the monitor so the other people can't see it.

Good point, I did fail to realize that. =)
Another to do...is maybe actually pay attention to your children and teach where they can and cannot go...and what they can and cannot do...instead of just letting them roam free.

Yeah, you can be as good of a parent as you can possibly be, but you can't always be with your kid 100% of the time. I guess the best way to combat that is to drill into your kids head from day one whats right and whats not. I mean you can sit there and say "I monitor what my kid does..oh yeah" but if you don't take the time to reinforce basic values and principles with your kid than what good does monitoring do if they don't know or care much that they are being stupid.