Parental Control - How Far Do You Go?

[outfished]

One last thing Jim, even though myspace.com may be taken off your computer, the account still exist and can be accessed from any computer. Just a thought, carry on......

[BrianS]

Keep in mind kids are smart

You shut down that site? She will find another. My parents just went thru it with my sister... My sister was pissed at first, but they cant keep track of everything. If they have access to a PC anywhere unsupervised, something else will spring up.

Except for supergluing all her fingers together so she cant type, I dont really know what you can do to put out the fire.. Just keep it from going out of control.

[Jimbo]

Good advice all. It's going to be sort of a The Dad Fisherman approach. She knows I don't BS or back down unless I'm proven wrong about something. She agreed the content was inappropriate, but claims she it wasn't hers and didn't even think of who could get to it. Nevertheless, she's on probation with spot audits at any given time I feel like it. She's got to tell as many of the kids as she can she's not allowed on the site anymore because her parents found out and know explicitly what all of them were doing (big brother's watching scare tactic), but if so much as an IM comes in dropping so much as a hint about sex or a bleeped out f-bomb, the PC and her precious cell phone are history, throwing in that if that happens she can kiss getting her learner's permit goodbye, since if we can't trust her with a PC, driving a car is out of the question. We'll see how it goes.

[Katie]

i have to admit.. i did something like this a few years ago.. the personal info and stuff like that..my dad saw the site he told me to get rid of it... and i did, btw this was back when i didn't know much on computers. i deleted my account on this site, and i'm glad i did cause about a few months later i think it was, my friend had something happen to her by this stupid perverted guy, she was 13, and lets just leave it at that..after that happend i told my dad thank for making me get rid of that site.. so i definitly think you did the right thing by having her get rid of it..