Paranoid Parents & the Internet

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Censorship is rediculous. Luckily when I was a minor my parents let me do whatever I wanted for the most part, and whatever they didn't, I got away with anyway.

And I am such a bad, bad liddle tyke now for all the tits and spilled guts i've seen :O

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My parents used to be extremely paranoid about talking to strangers online. They would have flipped out if they had ever caught me in IRC or some chatroom for one reason or another. I wasn't even allowed to have AIM until I was 17 or 18 (after many arguments for it on my part).

Even now I'm afraid to talk about my online friends to my parents, even though I have some very good ones that I've known for years. They've just instilled in me some fear that they will get angry at me for communicating with them, even though they've gotten over that for the most part.

It's reasonable to be concerned about your child so that they don't get into any dangerous situations, but the media blows it WAY out of proportion. Finally my parents came to realize that the Internet is just like the real world - there are strangers, some of them potentially malicious, but for the most part they're harmless, just like any given population in the real world. Kids need to learn how to deal with both; not be completely cut off from it just because there is a small percentage of danger.

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well i don't have a problem like that...back when i was still a kid, my parents understood...i guess the most concern comes from my grandpa...

but yea i hate that not enough parents are concerned...and lots of ppl are extremely stupid with the internet. idno how many ppl on myspace just randomly post their digits in bulletins when they have thousands of friends on there...not very smart...

but i think other than family, my bf has the most concern about me on the internet...

but i kno the internet is just like the real world...of course there will be evil ppl...but there's also good ppl, and i kno tons of good ppl...

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i agree that parents need to take responsibility, however, 18 years old to play a M-rated game? come on now, thats pushing it a little bit, they're not that bad.
i agree with you semi on the R-rated movies, i would at least wait till my child was around 14-15 to let him/her watch.
and about the internet, i agree with you 100%. they're your parents, they most likely bought you the computer, and if they didnt it doesnt matter, your in their house they should know whats going on either way. case closed.

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Like I said, they don't know what I have on my computer now. Besides, I hide it all in my Stepmania Announcers folder. LOL.

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My mom used to ask, "do you know this person in real life?" all the time (I obviously lied, seeing as I only knew the screennames of two people I knew IRL back then). Unfortunately, this paranoia rubbed off on me, and I never gave my real name out to people on the Internet. Now I freely give my name (and sometimes my town) out to people on the Internet.

I'm more likely to get my ass kicked walking outside than get a stalker on me who's going to rape/mug/etc. me, seeing as it's pretty much the same thing anyway.

It's all about insecurity.

I just about never do anything explicit on the Internet, yet I almost always switch to a really text-y screen when my parents are around. Why? They might take something the wrong way because they raised me to be insecure and cautious about these things by the examples they set on these situations. What, want an example? I was watching Melancholy one time and my parents saw the characters on the beach. Just bikinis and bathing suits. She said half sarcastically, "oh, are you watching one of those Anime pornos?" I just sighed (even though Melancholy isn't exactly the best example of an Anime without sexual things in it, and right when she left there was a "demonstration" of that. But there we go--nothing I don't see, nothing I shouldn't be allowed to see, and nothing that should be hidden from me, for the sake of promoting sexual security).

There's a difference between what your kid is comfortable seeing and what parents are comfortable letting their kids see. And unfortunately, these don't always mesh together.

Although I wouldn't ever let a kid of mine watch porn out of the blue, that's a bit different. I'd probably say something like, "just don't watch anything explicit when I'm around and we're cool." XD

My aunt gave her 12 year old kids Playboy magazines. Why? Well, to promote sexual security! It's not like they were things they never saw before, might as well get them comfortable with the fact that it's normal for boys to have sexual desires and it's nothing to hide! She even said that she had quite a few discussions with her boys about sexual stuff over the years after that. Hmm, wonder why?

Me? Goddamn I'd never talk to my mom about that kind of stuff. I don't know how she react and frankly I don't want to experiment. She never showed me a reason why I should be secure about my sexuality around her, so I'm not.

And kids hear curse words all the ****ing time, why try to hide them from them? They're just ****ing words and they're something a mature adult should be comfortable hearing, and at the age where their kids hear those words all the time and probably even use them in public, why bother censoring them at home?

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Same exact thing here. Now I don't care if the person knows my name, and my parents used to always ask if I knew that person, now they never do. I usually just give the state where I live, if they live there too then I'll give up some more information.

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my mum would let me watch certain things when i was younger, like she would rather have me watch a small sex scene in a movie than some bloody gory scene

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hahahahahaha i love you! check out my hiding spot:



i don't even know what lotus is...
btw pulp friction isn't very good.

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"I Love Asians." LOL.

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good watch imo

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lol that's awesome. if i hid things they'd go in my html coding folder with my photoshop stuff and such...cuz no one else here is interested in that stuff...and anyways i could just make it invisible as well

one of my friends had a separate hidden hard drive for his special stuff

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About the only sexual discussion I had with my parents was when I told my dad that there had been an irritation around my groin (No, it wasn't an STD). It was probably just more chiggar bites, they had me for dinner that year.

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Yeah, my parents are kinda crazy too. They always have to know what I'm doing.

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After figuring out that I often looked at adult content, my dad threatened me by saying that he could monitor the router 24/7.

I think he was bluffing. = 3