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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 114602" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>As others have said, YouTube is as good or as bad as you make it. There is so much content on it that's cute and perfectly appropriate for younger children, and there's so much that's inappropriate.</p><p></p><p>I think the answer is simply not to let younger children use the computer without supervision. Our computers are in "public spaces" in the house, where we can see what's on the screen at any time.</p><p></p><p>With regard to MySpace, Facebook and those other social networking sites, in addition to the danger of predators and other people misrepresenting themselves, there's also the danger of online bullying and stalking. When difficult child's friend created a Facebook account for him last year, husband got his username and changed the password. So...difficult child was only able to use Facebook if husband logged him in, and he was under direct supervision the whole time. This way, we could also log in and monitor difficult child's activity on Facebook, and shut it down if anything inappropriate was going on.</p><p></p><p>I think trying to restrict access to specific sites gets very complicated, so I prefer to just be there whenever my little ones are using the computer.</p><p></p><p>Just my $0.02.</p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 114602, member: 3907"] As others have said, YouTube is as good or as bad as you make it. There is so much content on it that's cute and perfectly appropriate for younger children, and there's so much that's inappropriate. I think the answer is simply not to let younger children use the computer without supervision. Our computers are in "public spaces" in the house, where we can see what's on the screen at any time. With regard to MySpace, Facebook and those other social networking sites, in addition to the danger of predators and other people misrepresenting themselves, there's also the danger of online bullying and stalking. When difficult child's friend created a Facebook account for him last year, husband got his username and changed the password. So...difficult child was only able to use Facebook if husband logged him in, and he was under direct supervision the whole time. This way, we could also log in and monitor difficult child's activity on Facebook, and shut it down if anything inappropriate was going on. I think trying to restrict access to specific sites gets very complicated, so I prefer to just be there whenever my little ones are using the computer. Just my $0.02. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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