EDHS Contemporary World Affairs

MrsCavalluzzi · Guru

YourSpace ?!

Danika · Veteran Member

i'm actually friends with my dad on facebook, so my parents have access to that and i really wouldn't care if they went on my myspace. it shouldn't matter if your parents monitor your social networking sites because if you don't want your parents to see it you should not be putting it on the internet where anyone who wants to can see it.

i think if someone writes about these topics and then gets approval from their friends they're definitely going to try what they said to try and gain approval in any way they can- it's just part of human nature.

Codenamelivi · Veteran Member

I think most kids at this school wouldnt be comfortbale with their parents looking at their myspace
-stuart denton

sophie · Veteran Member

em...i think people can talk everything they want online, and nobody can discourage that.
at least i wont try that kinda crazy behaviors......thats creepy!~
i will feel uncomfortable if my dad know my facebook or myspace, im pretty sure that he will check them everyday and ask a lot about my status...

drewtekulve · Senior Member

Social Networking is kind of like posting things publicly (granted through censorship that may prevent the viewing of people who are not your friends). But at any rate, what's posted is posted. So if you one stupidly posts some elusive statement of doing a suspicious act, even if they did it or not, they are just ignorant.

I don't mind my parents looking at my facebook or myspace at all. I don't do suspicious things, nor do write about doing them, or nor do I have pictures of me doing something that i don't do, so for those who are worried, clean up your myspace and/or facebook or clean up your act.

Beccawicks · Senior Member

I wouldn't be comfortable with anyone over a certain age looking at my myspace/facebook. There isn't anything inappropriate on my profiles on either, but those social networking sites are not something I would want my parents on. If my parents were checking on it, I would feel like they didn't trust me and I've done nothing to break their trust. While, I wouldn't have to monitor mine, I'd have to monitor my friends and that isn't something I have control over. I find parents creepy who have either profiles to check on their children.

Writing about dangerous topics doesn't make me more apt to try them. I don't know about everyone else. But common sense is a beautiful thing.

And the whole dad thing is ridiculous. Completely.

kb · Senior Member

I really wouldn't care if my parents saw my myspace. People always talk about doing things, weather it be on myspace or in person. Myspace just makes it more public. I think that writing about doing something illegal could make it more offical. But I don't think it really matters, if some one is going to try something it's ulitmately their choice. I'm sure myspace isn't forceing vodka down someones throat. And most websites do try to discourage bad behavior, theres a section where you agree not to post bad behavior, and if you see it you have chance to report the image or whatever.

drewtekulve · Senior Member

That is true with the friends thing though. I know there are things they say that we cannot control.

But parents should understand that this is 2009. Bad behavior unfortunately is common, especially in high school and college. eek!

krea · Senior Member

i really didnt know people lie about themselves and drugs that much. i know all my friends on myspace are pretty honest with themselves. and i have no problem letting my parents see my myspace. it is kinda awkward in a way but i have nothing to hide at all. people using myspace need to realize a whole range of people are looking at you and what you have up. my parents are too cool for a myspace anyways =P

-- Edited by krea at 19:01, 2009-01-07

patrickisoverrated · Senior Member

I don't have a problem with it.
But then again I don't put bad things on it.

Matt. mhm · Veteran Member

Would you be comfortable with YOUR parents seeing your myspace/facebook page?

its called MYspace......Mine!

so yes, i would.

YOitsjvo · Veteran Member

i think it would just be weird knowing your parents are looking at your myspace or facebook

KirstenHarms · Veteran Member

i don't have a myspace or a facebook but i think that its stupid how teens are encouraging teens to do drugs, sex, etc. i wouldn't mind having my parents look at my profile if i had 1 though.

Janell · Veteran Member

I wouldn't feel uncomfortable with anyone looking at my profile.
And I have yet to figure out why teenagers/young people post scandalous things on their profiles. i can't speak for them
but as for the social networking trying to discourage or censor the behavior, i don't think that would work out. I'm pretty sure most sites don't allow nudity.

Flanny · Senior Member

I wouldn't mind my parents going onto my facebook, i don't even know how to work the site. I would be a little creeped out if they went on it when i wasn't home, because that means they are snooping around trying to find something. However i don't think writing about them would incline a person to engage in them. Alot of kids think that drugs and drinking are the "cool" things to do, so mainly what is written on the website probably isn't true to begin with, the kids are just trying to be cool. I don't think the daughter website thing was right because before you know it someone could be fired for an uncles website.

cstair23 · Senior Member

we kinda talked about this earlier in the year
if your putting inappropriate material up on the INTERNET
you deserve to be punished for said material

however i do agree with the above people in that i wouldnt mind my parents looking at my profile
i would be uncomfortable with them looking at my friends stuff though
as i have no control over that

CharlieBurling · Veteran Member

Beccawicks wrote:

I wouldn't be comfortable with anyone over a certain age looking at my myspace/facebook. There isn't anything inappropriate on my profiles on either, but those social networking sites are not something I would want my parents on. If my parents were checking on it, I would feel like they didn't trust me and I've done nothing to break their trust. While, I wouldn't have to monitor mine, I'd have to monitor my friends and that isn't something I have control over. I find parents creepy who have either profiles to check on their children.

Writing about dangerous topics doesn't make me more apt to try them. I don't know about everyone else. But common sense is a beautiful thing.

And the whole dad thing is ridiculous. Completely.

-- Edited by CharlieBurling at 18:32, 2009-01-08

LauraHernandez17 · Senior Member

I personally wouldnt have a problem with my mom or dad looking but i know for some of the idiotic kids at this school who post pictures of them smoking weed and drinking would have a problem. but what i do in my personal life is exactly that, personal. So even if my parents didnt look at it i still wouldnt post anything that could get me in any potential trouble. and i agree with becca like whats up with the 30 year olds on myspace? its like uh get a life.. and the dad thing is just stupid.

KSF{Kodies} · Senior Member

personally id be comfortable with my parents looking at my page, i have actually showed it to them. Im not worried about getting in trouble because i have nothing on there that would put me in a position to get in trouble. I believe that the companys do some warning and trying to limit the obscenities that are on there but ultimatly its up to the users to follow through, and based on the age group using these sites, they are not always complied with. I dont necessarily believe that articles about those sites influence people to use them either, its more of a peer pressure or just a want to fit in that gets most people to use it.

And when it comes to the case of the dad who lost his job because of his daughters myspace i think thats absurd, unless there were incriminating photos or information about him on their but still i think the company should have looked into it before deciding his fate

adrianna_mrozek · Veteran Member

My dad just made a myspace a while ago to keep in touch with his friends and to check up on mine and my sisters pages.. and i was completely fine with it. Im sure some kids wouldn't want their parents to see their pages, but then again, if there parents dont care enough and let them do the bad things to put up on myspace, then they probably wouldnt care enough to actually look at their kids myspace.