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I think my son wants to make a MYSPACE?

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how can i stop this? i heard him on the phone with his BFF and my son said something like..." we should make one of those cool myspace things..." i don't want strangers looking at my son! i'm afraid if i forbid him to make one, he'll just do it at the library or the YMCA. what should i do??

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  1. just let him do it but moniter him very closely because seriously all the parents that say no to myspace dont realize that their kids already have one. And with guys they have a lesser chance of letting bad stuff happen to them!


  2. you are stupid.if your son is 23 years old you can't forbid him from doing anything!he's an adult

    you creep me out.ok

    if you make your own profile,you can't get messages unless people add you as a friend,and you can make it so the people who try to add you have to know ur last name and emal.

  3. Your son is out of control!  Why does he need one of those myspaces anyway?  Tell him if he is looking for something to do in his spare time he can read his bible!  Myspace will only put all sorts of bad things in his head.  myspace is also pornography do not allow him to look at it!  I suggest you sit BOTH of them down and tell them the true evils of myspace.  scare them with the truth.  then you need to closely monitor his daily activities to make sure he is not tempted to make a myspace profile.  good luck!    

  4. If your son is 23, then he's old enough to make that decision for himself.  He's an adult, and you have no control over it, so what's the problem?  I agree that there are a lot of wackos on My Space, regardless of these other responses saying it's safe.  It isn't.  I've been contacted by a lot of crackpots.  There are settings so you can control who views your profile, and who contacts you.  However, your son is an adult, so stay out of his business.  If he wants to set up a My Space page, he's more than old enough to choose to do so.

  5. You're right.  Their is no way to really stop him from doing it.  The best thing to do would be to create your own MySpace account under a secret screen name and get yourself added to his friends list so that you can see what kind of stuff he puts up there.  A friend of mine did this and chatted with her daughter every day from work without the daughter knowing it was her.  It eventually saved the daughter from being raped by a 45 y/o man.  She had told her that a man was coming over and my friend went home just in time to find a strange man on their doorstep.  She called the police and the man was arrested.  If you have teenagers that will find ways of doing this stuff behind your back, it is up to you to find ways to protect them behind their's as well.

  6. omg!  Stop being over-protected and let him do his own ****.  He is old enough to do whatever he wants.  My Goodness.  

    Kick your son out of the house already.  why is he still at home??  Thats just pathetic

  7. Okay, you gotta realize that millions of people have their own Myspace account, and more than half are younger than the age of 18. Most people are smart enough not to advertise themselves over the Internet. Myspace is all about interacting with people, connecting with those you seldom see, and of course, talking with your friends through the Internet.

    It really depends on how old your son is. If he's around 13, then I say he could get one if he wants. But if he's younger...he's either gonna have to replace his profile picture with a picture of something else (like a favorite band or car or something) and wait till he's older so he can post his own picture, or he can't get one at all.  

  8. okay myspace you can make it pretty safe as long as you do these few things.

    myspace is great for staying in contact with friends. i use it because ive moved all over the country and so i use myspace to keep in contact with friends and to check up on their pics to see what they're up to and stuff. anyways...

    you CAN set your myspace on private...meaning that strangers can look you up on myspace and click your profile, but they CANT SEE your profile. so strangers or people that ARE NOT on your friends list, CAN NOT see your profile page.

    you can also add people that you know personally. thats what i do. if i know the person, then i will add them on myspacec. if i do not know them, then i will not add them. so yes, you can control who you ask for your friends, and who you accept as your friends. when someone asks you to be a friend, a friend request will be sent to you on myspace, and you have a choice to accept or reject the person. even though the person has asked you to be their friend, they still cant see your profile page. as soon as you accept them, they can see your page.

    another thing that you can do is your pictures...you can set them in many different settings. you can set them as for your eyes only, or make them where your friends can see them and such. if your profile was public, you can sometimes let the pics be viewed publically but you can also still set that anyone that is on your friends list can only see them. so yeah.

    anyways, so no strangers will be looking at their myspace profile as long as you do the things suggested above. you can also do the same thing.

  9. He's 23! Why can't he do what he wants then? He's an adult!

    And if your really worried, you can get him to set the privacy so that only people who are his friends can see his profile. And no one will see the profile if he doesn't add any friends!

    But I think it's a bit wrong that your concerned about him having a MySpace when he's 23!

    I'm fourteen and I have one! My privacy is set so that only friends from my school that I've accepted to be my friends can see it!


  10. Teach him how to be safe online, he can set the privacy settings on his page so that only the friends he approves can see it therefore eliminating strangers and you can insist on checking his friends list from time to time just to be sure, you can't stop him from doing what he wants the best a parent these days can do is make sure their children are equipped with all the tools and information to make smart decisions in life. Do your best and so will he.

  11. myspace is one of the safest social networking sites. i suggest you look at the website and see for yourself. just advise your son to set his profile to private, so that only his friends and family can see it. he will have total control over who views his profile, and then he can block anyone if he feels the need to do so. this means they cannot look at his profile again.


  12. you're son can make his page private and allow ppl 18 and under to look at it if he wanted.. or he can make it totally private and ppl will have to add him to see his page.

    he doesnt have to put his last name or anything on his account... theres some information that he needs to put on there at first but can fix when he makes the account.... the only reason some ppl find girls and kill them and stuff is cuz they like making their page public and its easy for ppl to find them.  but most ppl dont understand the things u can do for privacy.

    myspace is a way for ur kid to either meet new ppl, find old friends, and talk to his recent friends.. he can comment their pics, have his commented on.. post bulletins.. like surveys.. he can decorate his page.. anything.

    but he CAN make it private.

    just help him out and let him know what he has to do in order to keep it and get one.. if he doesnt listen to ur orders THEN let him know you will make him delete it. =]

  13. Let him have one and make him give you the password and make him set it to private so some random strangers can't stare at him.

  14. How old is he..? Remind him its against the rules to have a myspace under the age of 14..if he's older than that then go on let him have one...most teenagers want some sort of site like myspace,bebo or facebook. If he makes one remind him to set his profile to private..then only his friends can see his profile. If you want to keep an eye on what he's doing then maybe you should make a profile...that way you can see what he's up to and check he's not doing things he shouldn't be =]

    Good luck


  15. you should let him, under certain restrictions

    no phone numbers

    no last names

    no addresses,

    no innappropriate pictures

    no anything that would give away his security/where he lives

    ask for his myspace page, saying something like, "i heard that a lot of people have myspace pages, but do you have one?" save the myspace address, and check back often. sometimes people set they're profiles to private, so you can only look at the page if he acccepts you as a friend. but here's a tip. anyone can make a myspace page using false information. so even you can make a myspace page with a crazy username like hottbabe484 and then use a picture of a swimsuite model off of flickr or google to use as your  picture. if he's a straight guy, then i think he should accept you

    good luck

  16. don't worry about it. It's not as bad as you think. I have a myspace and a facebook. After a while, they get kind of boring. The more you say no, the more he's going to want one. Just let him have it, its no big deal.

  17. I highly doubt that you have a son that is old enough to create a my space page, if you do stop using words like BBF right now!

  18. just let him do it and talk to him about the predators there. i hated myspace as well but there is a  way to block your page from being viewed by strangers, and only the folks that are on your "pre approved" friends list can see you pictures and personal info.  that's how i have mine, on the "private setting". so it should be fine for him. your right about him doing it anyway if you forbid him. loosen up

  19. Dang, concieted much? " afraid you'd be flooded w/  marriage proposals.

    And your son is 23. Let him make one, he's old enough to fend for himself. Geeze overbearing much? Is he slow or something? Sounds like it

    Edit: You need to get a life.

  20. Just let him make one, it's a great chance to socialize with other kids when they're not in school, and it really isn't as dangerous as the media makes it seem.  They fixed alot of things, and privacy is wayyy up, only his friends can see his pictures and stuff.  It should safe for him.  But, even if you still don't trust myspace, you can talk to your son about it, and figure something out.  I strongly suggest you do not forbid him from going onto myspace, that'll create a ton of problems in the future.  good luck :D

  21. you can always set his profile to private. id advise bebo. if a mysace page is private it still gives off the most of his information.

    http://www.bebo.com you cans et profiles to private, and if he refuses to have a private page you can seat maximum age limit, ie no one over 18 can contact him.

    HE 23 ! Its not up to you then,

  22. My 16 year old son just created his my space account the other day.  I warned him of the danger of predators and the fact that he leaves himself vulnerable and naked for all to see depending on what he chooses to put on his page.  He told me he's mostly interested in the music downloads.

    I created my own my space account (I'm 43) and have asked to be added as his my space friend.

    Rather than trying to forbid/prevent our kids from experiencing technology it behooves us to become informed and participate with our kids.  We fear what we don't know so learn about my space to distill the fears.

    Be honest of your concerns and the reality of the world and convey them to your kids.  Become involved in the process.

    Perhaps you can ask him to help you set up your my space page?

  23. Can I have his myspace page info, please? If he looks like his mama, that boy must be smokin hot!

    EDIT: Um...βЯã¥đΣŋ'Ş Щφм, Look at woman2's avatar pic. She's very hawt! Of course she'll be flooded with marriage proposals! Any normal guy would want a piece of that!

  24. your son will do it even if u forbid him, so i think it is much better if you're around while he's creating his own myspace account.  then advise him on how to protect his privacy. that way, only his friends can view his account

    ps: just read ur add on.. OMG, your son is already 23?!!  time to let go....he's not a baby anymore!

  25. umm, block it from the computer he uses, i think you have to do this through control panel. set it so you need a password, and make it a random bunch of numbers, so nobody can guess it.

  26. The best thing for you to do is to monitor myspace. Check every and any allies he may have to find him.

    Then do constant random checks through the day. You best bet is to figure out his password (you know its his BFF's name) put some p**n on there and get him booted off hopefully permanently so make it a good one!

    Holy sh*t! Look at all the people who want to see your sweet innocent baby on myspace! Its worse then I thought! Stalkers and pushers........

  27. I AM NOT a big fan of my space.  Never ever give out personal information--I know pictures are put up--but they are not copyright on them so anyone can click and save a picture to their computer.  I think my space is better when kids go off to college and not in high school

  28. Why are you so worried? Honestly if you teach him about myspace, no one can look at his profile without his permission.....

    You can make it private and make sure he only adds him friends, it isnt the worst thing in the entire world.

    How old is he anyways?

  29. Lighten up!!

    have you actually seen myspace?

    you dont have to put a pic up even and if you forbid him h**l just d it anyway fir god sake!!

    ask him does he want to if he says yeah thenn tell him to put his on private and let himmake 1! if hes 23 for god sake you cant rulee him!!

    anyway dont let him join myspace bebo is better!!

  30. The best thing to do is make it with him.

    you dont have to worry about people veiwing your son as you can make his profile private and viewable only by his friends.

    if you make it with him then you can avoid looking like an over protective parent and it might even be fun :)

  31. hes 23 for gods sake let him live the life he wants... he has to choose his own path not the one u tell him to choose all the time. Not in disrespect or anything, but he is 23! not 15!

    and saying that men will see u and start with marriage proposals is just paranoia geeze i have a my space and its just friends. YOu can just block people that u dont want. and set it to private. take it easy ur too stressed lol

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