Bluebird never stop talking you have so many pertinent points to make...I love listening to the things you say/post!!! 2000 posts, whahoo!!!

Oh I was just kidding! Like I COULD stop talking.
C'mon now...

The problem with a place that's intended for teenagers is anyone can say they are anyone on the net and get away with it. I guess I used to have a lot more faith in human nature than I do now. I wish there was a way of keeping these places safe, because the original intent is a wonderful one.

It's funny, I just got an email from my cousin and he has a new blog or whatever and it's on myspace.com. I thought it was a great site (his) because his picture looked so good. He's 25, designs websites, runs his own company and is in a band. He writes music. I emailed him and asked about the myspace site. I thought it would be a good place to promote the book. My husband, who doesn't go online, had a fit. He had heard about myspace on the news. I'm all over the Internet, so what's the big deal? He said people look for kids, yada yada. I'm not a kid, so what? Then my daughter told me it's a site all the kids are using. Her friends kid has her full name on there etc. The parents told her to get it off there. She is also putting her friends names on it. Didn't sound good. My cousin emailed me back and said it's a great site and lots of fun. ?? Now, I come on here and it's a topic. I guess, I won't be using it. A couple of days ago, I had never heard of it.

Chatty - I have an ipod thingy and I don't get any porn on it. But, then again, I don't download it either. I have the new one that you can put pictures on. The screens so small the porm would be wasted on me. I wouldn't be able to see it. LOL

Louisa

Bluebird...I feel like all I do is post on here and I haven't even hit 500 yet!!!...it will take me years to get where you are...keep postin' my sister...

My kids use the site too. I have talked to them since the day we got our first computer about not giving out too much information and all I can do is hope that it sunk in.
In defense of my space, my children have found long lost friends that have moved away, and since we moved away also it helps them to stay in touch with their old friends and school mates. I hate that it is being abused by the pervs. But then, what isn't?

It's so sad that there are evil people that take advantage of everything and anything to hurt others.

The internet is a great tool for good purposes, but its a double-edged sword: as with so many other developments, it is also a good tool for perverts.

You can never be too careful nowadays!

My son was trying to sell some parts of his car on the net and got an email from someone "interested" offering to send a check for a much larger amount than the cost of the parts. The catch is they then ask you to pay for the shipping of the item and wire the difference to a certain account .

Of course, the check is fake and if you're not alert and wire the "difference" you'll be left with nothing but a scam while feeding their account.

Thank God my son replied with a "I'm not sending any parts until the check is cleared". That was the end of it. But many people are not aware of all this going on!

This invasion of perversion just plain makes me mad. I am sick of it. These inhuman beasts are making every aspect of life unsafe. The myface site could have been a fun place for kids, but these disgusting perverts have made it dangerous.

I get angry every time I pass the parks and roadside rest stops that have been closed around here because they were popular hang outs for teens that gradually changed to drug drops, homosexual hang outs, and pick up sites for pedophiles.

I think much of what appears to be an epidemic of perversion is related to increased drug use. The addicts I have known are deeply spiritual people, but drugs separate them from their soul. Some have spoken to me about that and of the need to seek arousal through increasingly perverse sexual acts.

I wish I had a solution. For one thing, maybe we could stop portraying celebrities who use drugs then go to rehab as heroes and we could stop releasing perverts from prison. At this point we are the ones confined. We are in prisons of fear. Fear for ourselves and for our children.

smile

[ March 01, 2006, 12:17 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]

Scary world we live in today. I agree with Smile's sugestion regarding celebrities and drug use! It sure would help if we didn't make such a big deal out of it!

Some keep lobbying for the legalization of drugs and even prostitution stating if made legal the desire would cease to be as strong plus the Government could charge taxes. If drugs were legal would the price go down drastically? I wonder. As far as prostitution goes I doubt they will ever be able to control it. Too many willing to sell and too many willing to buy!! It's the growing popularity of Human Trafficing that scares me to death, now these criminals have even a better reason to steal our children and young women....and its happening everyday.

[ March 01, 2006, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]