Do you monitor what your teen posts on facebook?
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Do you monitor what your teen posts on facebook?
| Mon, 11-07-2011 - 2:51pm |
Here's a link to the local story http://www.wvec.com/my-city/chesapeake/Chesapeake-student-suspended-for-threatening-post-on-Facebook-133365228.html
I just wonder if her parents had the talk of "You need to watch what you put on facebook.".
I just think that kids today should know (after things like the Columbine shooting) that law enforcement has to take every threat seriously.
Without reading the article:
Exactly.
But I think there are adults out there who don't "get" it either.
The school administrators, the guidance department, teachers and police cannot be expected to play psychiatrist, and try to decide what's a "real" threat and what is not. Plus, I have no desire for *MY* child, who is a teacher, to be subjected to threats --real or "pretend"-- nor to have her live with the worry that she might be molested or murdered in the parking lot. The wisest course of action is to treat ALL threats as "real".
Daddy said "she didn't mean it as a credible threat" - and I'm sure the Columbine shooter's parents would have said essentially the same thing.
Yep, I have the same approach you do. I don't monitor what my kids post. Sometimes they'll ask me to come and look at stuff their friends have posted (videos, comments, etc.) and I use those to talk about how public FB really is.
Yesterday, my 14 yo DS asked me to scroll thru a dialogue he had had with a girl to determine whether I think she really likes him. :) There are things I worry about with them, of course, but FB postings aren't among them.
Never post anything on the internet that you would not want your grandparents to see?
Once out there it can't be totally removed.
Our kids were never big into FB, but I think if your kid is, you need to see everything.
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