Question for mothers with daughters w/ myspace...?

Question

If your daughter has a myspace page, do you ask her in the beginning for her username and password so you can make weekly or monthly checks to see if her page is clean, or do you let her do whatever she wants?

My sister is 13 and about to get a myspace and my mom wants to know if she should get her daughters info before letting her go on myspace

Answer 1

Her mother needs to monitor everything she's doing.  We had the mother of the girl who committed suicide because of the myspace joke as a speaker at my school last spring.  

I'm on myspace and I see so many young girls with inappropriate pictures/quotes/everything on there--and that's just the PUBLIC stuff--god knows what's going on in private messages.  

A student at my school was taken away by the police because of a threatening song he wrote about one of the teachers.  There's a time to let kids do what they want, but when they're very young and online is NOT one of them!

Someone I know was arrested for meeting someone online to have s*x with (a junior high student).

Answer 2

I think she should get her password and username because she is till young and there are lots of creeps out there i dont think your mom should read all her messages and everything but you guys should talk to your sister and make sure she knows not to do anything stupid

Answer 3

I'm not a mother, I am 16. I know all about creeps and perverts on the internet but when I was 13 I got my first myspace and I knew better than to put up racy photos or add people I didn't know. I think that if you raised your daughter the right way, with good morals and high standards, you should be able to trust her. And you're daughter will get angry if you try to take away her freedom, what she feels is hers.

Answer 4

I'm 13 and I have one,and my mom knows that she dosen't have my username or password but occasionally she'll want to see my profile,and she approves because Im mature enough to have one.

Answer 5

I would.  I've seen a lot of teens MySpace pages and they look a whole lot like a teen p**n site.  Provocative pictures, comments and everything else.  

I don't think it's a good idea to let kids (or anyone) use it.  But your mother should consistently monitor her use of it.  There are a lot of men on there fishing for young girls.  

Make sure she gets her info and monitors it on a regular basis.  Not just to make sure she's not putting herself out there, but so she doesn't put herself in danger either.

Answer 6

It seems that a lot of kids are making "dummy" accounts to fool their parents.  They have one account to show mom & dad, and another that they really use with their friends.  (And of course, adults can't access the kids' sites without being their "friend" first!  The smart kids put their profile on private to hide it from their parents!)

Answer 7

depends on your relationship with your sister, and her relationship with your mother. i wouldn't use myspace if my mother knew my information. i'm 14. if you are responsible enough, i think you should have your sisters information, and you could make sure nothing is going on myspace that shouldn't be.

myspace is a gossip page., i would never want my mother to know what i talk about with my girl friends.

goodluck[: