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thishereboi -> RE: Invincible, Ignorant, or Unsupervised? (1/18/2012 6:31:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Fornica
I'm 33.
I have 6 kids.
I didn't start using the internet until about 2001.
There, that's my 'net background.
I can't imagine the temptations, and debauchery I could have gotten into (on top of the other crap I actually did do) if the internet was available to me as a teen.
In another unnamed part of this forum, a "princess" posted. She included her email address.
Out of curiosity, I googled it.
In under 7 minutes, I had her real identity (including her real age, of 16), including home address.
My question is this..do you think for kids that age, it's a matter of thinking they're invincible, are they ignorant (in the true sense of the word), or are they bored, playing on their macbooks while Mommy and Daddy ignore them?
I feel old.
Yea, I could have done a lot more damage as a kid with access to the internet. Of course on the flip side, it would have been a lot easier for my parents to find me if we had cell phones back then.
As to the "princess" I don't think they are ignorant of the dangers, I think they feel they are too smart to ever fall for anything bad.
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