Young Girls on the Internet

764dak

So this woman from age 13 to 21 posed as a man in his late 20s or early 30s. She wanted to write about baseball and thought posing as a man would make her credible. It worked but she took it too far. She even convinced women to send her naked pictures.
https://deadspin.com/teen-girl-posed-for-8-years-as-married-man-to-write-abo-1820305588

This woman tricked a newbie internet user that she was Katy Perry. She did it from age 12 to 18. He thought he was dating Katy Perry.
http://previously.tv/catfish/will-catfish-help-spencer-and-katys-teenage-dream-come-true/

Do you think children and teens should be monitored while using the internet?

Canis Lupus

Yes

gifted

Neighbour bought her 9 year old daughter a smartphone for Xmas..or ****s sake....that's way too young.

Boom_Bap

Yes. If you are giving your child access to the internet, you need to first lock down what they can access and secondly monitor what they access.

freshpopcorn

Monitored to a reasonable extent.
I'm 25 and I grew up with the internet/social media(Bebo/Facebook). I always found that parents who took a fair approach to the internet generally had the best success. Those who didn't read all their sons/daughters close friends messages and those who knew not to make an issue of everything generally had better kids online than those who were over the top regarding everything their teenagers did online.
I know teenagers now and their parents are fairly web/tech savvy and they think they know everything their kid do online. The teenagers have access to social media on friends phones and they even know ways around their parents security settings but they parents believe they know everything that is happening in their kids lives. These type of parents were around when I was a teenagers and I found that their kids often had issues online but they could never talk to their parents about it.
Don't even talk about how these kids react when they reach 18 and go to college and mammy isn't their making them put their phone on the kitchen table every night.
One thing I do know is those who were a bit scatty online when they were a teenagers are still the same now in there mid to late twenties and it didn't make a massive difference how strict their parents were in my experience.

Grab All Association

No. The majority of internet users be it adults or children don’t do this. Those who do have issues.

The_Valeyard

That not catfishing?

McMurphy

Do you think children and teens should be monitored while using the internet?

Yes. Boys and girls alike.

No way are any of mine being given their own smart phone/tablet or any other device capable of accessing the net until they reach double digit figures, and even then it will be under supervision.

Children need to be encouraged to be children, not stuck behind some screen where all kinds of weirdos can have unfettered access to them.

_Brian

My girls 9 & 15 get internet access. I monitor the youngest tight, she knows she isn’t allowed any messaging apps nor allowed to enter her name into anything. i keep a tight eye on her activity and it’s all benign stuff, YouTube baking videos being 99%

Elder a bit more freedom but she knows I keep an eye on what she is doing. She’s not that keen on social media but does use snapchat of course for her friends - I know everyone she snaps and indeed their parents too.

764dak

The_Valeyard wrote: »

That not catfishing?

The second one came on MTV's Catfish: The TV Show

tomwaterford

764dak wrote: »

Do you think children and teens should be monitored while using the internet?

Given amount of paedos etc operating online....you'd want to be a grade A moran not to keep an eye on what your kids are at online


I remember a younger cousin who was around 14 or so...showing me some stuff they were asked/told on that ask.fm and Jesus it would make yous lose faith in humanity

Lorelli!

Grab All Association wrote: »

No. The majority of internet users be it adults or children don’t do this. Those who do have issues.

I agree with this but maybe they should be monitored in some way to protect them from the minority of other adults or children that do behave like that on the internet.

biko

Maybe we should have a department of lewd old men to monitor these young girls?

Donald Trump

biko wrote: »

Maybe we should have a department of lewd old men to monitor these young girls?

Did someone call my name..................

AttentionBebe

Yes, let's just monitor the girls. Teenage boys don't get up to bollocksology on the internet at all at all (when are the schools back btw?)

Donald Trump

I really believe in my newfound mission

In order to facilitate, I've deleted all my saved "milf" filters across various "investigative documentary research" sites and replaced with "teen"








(18+ of course)

LadyMacBeth_

I'm 29, my parents got the internet when I was 12. It was kept in a communal room downstairs but one they only popped into from time to time. I got caught having "cybersex" at the age of 12 on my confirmation day. They hadn't a clue, they monitored my internet usage a bit closer after that alright but I was still going into chat rooms quite a bit and lying about my age, taking to boys/men much older than me . There were no parental controls on internet access and I think I was looking at porn from about 12-13 onwards. I also had unlimited access to my mobile phone from the age of 12 that went everywhere with me. Sending naked photos was possible when I was about 15/16 and of course I started sending them then. Thankfully social media didn't take off until I was about 17/18 and I never took much of an interest in bebo/Facebook. So, yes, teenagers should definitely be monitored to some extent and have their access restricted to some extent too, depending on age and maturity.

hatrickpatrick

Absolutely not, tbh. It's almost inevitable that such monitoring veers away from pure safety concerns and into moral policing, which is pretty much exactly what I always used the internet as a kid to avoid, and I'd certainly want my kids to feel that they had a similar escape where they get to form their own values and opinions.

Galwayguy35

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Absolutely not, tbh. It's almost inevitable that such monitoring veers away from pure safety concerns and into moral policing, which is pretty much exactly what I always used the internet as a kid to avoid, and I'd certainly want my kids to feel that they had a similar escape where they get to form their own values and opinions.

So how would you feel about your kid viewing porn?

suicide_circus

Grayson

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So how would you feel about your kid viewing porn?

Teenage guys look at porn. It happens. Just older people had to work harder to get the porn.

hatrickpatrick

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So how would you feel about your kid viewing porn?

Absolutely fine with it. As long as he or she knew that if they came across anything which freaked them out or scared them, they could talk to me about it without worrying that I'd get angry or anything like that.

BorneTobyWilde

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I'm 29, my parents got the internet when I was 12. It was kept in a communal room downstairs but one they only popped into from time to time. I got caught having "cybersex" at the age of 12 on my confirmation day. They hadn't a clue, they monitored my internet usage a bit closer after that alright but I was still going into chat rooms quite a bit and lying about my age, taking to boys/men much older than me . There were no parental controls on internet access and I think I was looking at porn from about 12-13 onwards. I also had unlimited access to my mobile phone from the age of 12 that went everywhere with me. Sending naked photos was possible when I was about 15/16 and of course I started sending them then. Thankfully social media didn't take off until I was about 17/18 and I never took much of an interest in bebo/Facebook. So, yes, teenagers should definitely be monitored to some extent and have their access restricted to some extent too, depending on age and maturity.

So you used to distribute CP basically.
That is quite the admission.

WomanSkirtFan8

764dak wrote: »

So this woman from age 13 to 21 posed as a man in his late 20s or early 30s. She wanted to write about baseball and thought posing as a man would make her credible. It worked but she took it too far. She even convinced women to send her naked pictures.
https://deadspin.com/teen-girl-posed-for-8-years-as-married-man-to-write-abo-1820305588

This woman tricked a newbie internet user that she was Katy Perry. She did it from age 12 to 18. He thought he was dating Katy Perry.
http://previously.tv/catfish/will-catfish-help-spencer-and-katys-teenage-dream-come-true/

Do you think children and teens should be monitored while using the internet?

In a simple answer: yes absolutely

LadyMacBeth_

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

So you used to distribute CP basically.
That is quite the admission.

Considering that the boys were of a similar age and that I was also underage and the photos were of myself, I wouldn't consider that to be the case.

hatrickpatrick

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Considering that the boys were of a similar age and that I was also underage and the photos were of myself, I wouldn't consider that to be the case.

Our asinine and backwards legal system around sex would, just as it considers consensual sex between two teenagers to be male on female rape. :mad:

BorneTobyWilde

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Considering that the boys were of a similar age and that I was also underage and the photos were of myself, I wouldn't consider that to be the case.

That makes no difference whatsoever legally, but I do understand exactly what you mean.

riclad

Thats what the program catfish is about,
stupid people who meet someone on social networks who are
convinced they are dating someone ,
Someone who they never met.
Theres a endless supply of naive young people out there .
Dating is meeting someone in rl real life ,
going some where , to a pub, club etc
dating is not clicking like button,s or sending dms on facebook.
There should be a black mirror episode about this.
People who date on a social network and would absolutely hate each other if they met in real life.

i think some people spend more time on facebook than they spend
talking to their friends in real life.