Daughter is on MySpace
 

My initial reaction is that her having a MySpace account is trouble, but so far she hasn't put a lot of personal info there and she has restricted her full profile to her 'friends' list. My daughter does not yet know that I know she has a MySpace account. I can see that it looks as if it's only her school friends posting there, yet I worry about online predators.

Has anyone here gone through a MySpace 'battle' with their teen? Do I even need to worry about it?

Oh, and her status says she is 'in a relationship'. :shock: That is something I am worried about.

Been there. I don't like that school info ends up there through posts from friends.

I'm getting close to where you are right now Aqua. Watch this very closely. Ask questions.

Tough love, dude....

My best advice...make a MySpace account of your own. that way you can talk to the people that she's talking to and know what's up.

My son moved out of the house a few months back and didn't have Internet service where he moved.(<my oldest sons house).A few weeks ago he called me and gave me his id and password and asked me to cancel/delete his account.I guess he just outgrew it or got bored with it...I don't know.I did "snoop" around while I was there!!There didn't seem to be much going on and I think the few incidents that have been reported on the site is minute considering the number of members that belong.

I hate to send up another red flag but..........keep an eye on the text messages sent and recieved via the cellphone!!!I've had more problems in this area than I care to mention....and the sender/reciever is usually in the same neighborhood.

Edit: I forgot .....Do you know why kids' cell batteries need frequent charging?-----They don't delete their incoming/outgoing call lists or their inbox/outbox for text messages! ;)

my daughter is 9 and has various things on MSN and and a few kid oriented sites. I can't say i am too happy about it, but i'd rather she has stuff i know about than have her set up ones (and she is very capable of doing that) i don't know about. I'm not too sure about MySpace stuff and how it works, but at least her email is set to exclusive.

We had a LONG talk about the dangers. I think she is sensible and will seek advice when needed.

She is growing up fast! Sheesh

This was my approach as well.

That just means she doesn't want guys asking for a date.

and doesn't want the other girls to know if she doesn't have a guy.

My 17 year old son has a MySpace account. However, he told me about it, we discuss it, he shows it to me and shows me the things he has posted, mainly poems (dark) and such. I like to think I know what's going on, but that would be presumptuous on my part. I agree, set up and account of your own :)

Just read something about how camps & other places are restricting what info the kids put on myspace so the camp's location, etc. isn't given away.

Make sure she knows what to keep off the web.

It's a different world, eh? :)

my kids aren't old enough yet but i say hell yeah worry. not so much that it keeps you up at night but enough that it keeps you aware. there may only be a small percentage of predators out of the total myspace users, but i know i wouldn't want one of my kids to be a statistic and neither do you. talk to her frankly about the dangers and lay down some rules. i can't say for sure (cause it hasn't happened to me yet) but i don't think i'd keep my knowing a secret.

My son knows I know because he has his account restricted and I had to be approved to see it. The problem I have is not in what info my sone has given out but in what others have said, "_____ High School's X country ROCKS!!!!!" etc. I know my son is 15 and a big guy but he's still bait.

would you have told him if his account wasn't restricted?
do you want to yank his privileges because of the comments other people make? i know that wouldn't be fair, but it must worry you.

I have let it stay because it is restricted. If he opened it to the public I'd have it yanked.