Mother & daughter tag team MySpace

Derek,

I agree with you. It is amazing how today’s parents are no longer responsible for their own child’s well being.

No kidding. As a teacher, you wouldn’t believe how often parents come up with crap like “you’re not teaching my child discipline!” to take bad-parenting blame away from themselves.

I agree 100%. Parents should monitor what their kids look at on the net.

Myspace was a good idea, getting independent bands to put out their music, but now the “bad” people took over.

What a shame…

Wait, parents are responsible for raising their kids?

I agree about the whole raising and monitoring your kids. But my parents have trouble turning on the computer without me holding their hand. How can they monitor what I do online? Not that I’m as dumb as the 14 year old girl.

I’m actually split on the issue. The parents are of course largely to blame, but I’d love to see Myspace go down in a ridiculous lawsuit.

@j2

Yay I agree.

Maybe this will keep the little poser kids off MySpace?

Whatever happened to teaching your kids about not putting themselves in situations where harm can come to them? My parents always taught me about what parts of town to avoid, or making sure to stay in public, well lit spaces when you’re meeting someone new and I’m a male. They were even more intense with my younger sister. It’s not about overprotectiveness, it’s about being safe, and having responsibility for your own well being, and the being of others.

Instead now you just sue anyone who was related to the problem you faced. I should go get hit by a car then sue Ford for making cars out of hard materials instead of down pillows.

I heard on CNN they’re sueing because he lied on MySpace & said he was a high school football captain or something.

Now if they met in a shopping mall & he lied to her, who would they sue then? Gap? Starbucks? How many years ago did we stop being responsible for our own actions & get the oportunity to sue anyone we could when something bad happens to us?

Well, the parents don’t need to know a lot about tech. It just takes a quick look over the shoulder to see what their kids are doing, or what are they looking at.

@Jerry thats exactly what i was thinking.

First some idiot spills hot coffee in his lap and wins because he was too stupid to know that hot coffee should not be placed between his legs…

Then they go after gun mafacturers, because the guns kill people.

Lets talk about the pain and suffering that the lumber industry has caused from all the splinters.

“Lets talk about the pain and suffering that the lumber industry has caused from all the splinters.”

LOL Amen man

I am with Adam…my parents didnt know a whole lot about comps when I was younger, they just taught me common sense, what the safe things to do are, and the like, everything is up to the parents, it doesnt matter whether or not they know anything about computers…

-matt

Once I heard of a case of a woman who tried to dry her wet dog by using a microwave oven, and it obviously died.

She then sued the microwave oven company because there was nothing on the instruction manual warning you about placing wet dogs in their machines.

…. I wonder if I can recharge my AAA batteries placing them in my computers PSU while it’s on….

Kids are much smarter than parents when it comes to computers. Cache can be cleared, history deleted, and adults can pose as youth. Myspace needs to establish some methodolgy for controlling this. If it saves someone from years of agony, I’m all for it! We can’t go out into the world and pretend to be someone else without getting into trouble so why should we be able to on the web. With help from the government and MySpace some sort of Identification number (maybe even SS#) to identify age and possibly identity if need be.

When I saw the headline I thought….

Never mind!

Andy sez:

> Cache can be cleared, history deleted, and adults can pose as youth.
> Myspace needs to establish some methodolgy for controlling this.

really? it’s MySpace’s responsibility for controlling our browsers? that’s not only technically impossible, it’s ridiculous.

> We can’t go out into the world and pretend to be someone else
> without getting into trouble so why should we be able to on the web.

exactly. but these people don’t want to hold the guy doing the impersonating responsible — they want to hold the company that enabled the meeting responsible. so why stop with MySpace? these people were using computers… they should sue Microsoft and Dell or Apple or whoever built these terrible machines.

were they ordered over the phone? sue the phone companies. were they bought with credit cards? sue the banks. the computers were delivered via FedEx, UPS and the federal interstate system? keep extending the blame outward instead of looking inward where the real responsibility lies. parents just don’t pay attention to what their kids are doing, period. i’ve got two teens and i keep an eye on them… even two eyes…

> With help from the government and MySpace some sort of Identification
> number (maybe even SS#) to identify age and possibly identity if need be.

you are not only out of your fucking mind, you’re also a menace to individual freedom. what’s next, having to show your government-approved ID to leave your goddamn house so everyone else can feel safe letting their kids walk around unsupervised?

> If it saves someone from years of agony, I’m all for it!

if you need someone to police you 24/7 to save you from your own ignorance, join the military. i prefer to watch my own ass and i’ve taught my kids how to do the same. and no, that doesn’t mean we tote firearms — we just look after ourselves so harmful creeps (and well-meaning citizens with dreams of an orwellian utopia) don’t ruin our lives.

I think monkeythepig summed up my thoughts concerning SS# identification on MySpace. That would be ridiculous and a complete security liability. How about finger print and blood tests while we’re at it?