Kids and the Internet - Page 8

Cloud · 04-24-2007, 12:41 PM

Thank you, Big V, for your thoughtful post. You make some really good points here!

No, they are not my children and don't live with me. That doesn't absolve me, as a grandmother, of needing to watch over them!

BigV · 04-24-2007, 01:01 PM

You're welcome, and thank you for the kind remarks.

Of course you still have some responsibility for watching over them. But even though you're not in the house with them, you can still share an email address as I described above. Your ability to handhold them for all the other computer-y stuff is not easily done, but if you get some webmail kind of email address, say, gmail.com, there's no reason you can't set it up, give them the login, and share away. You still get to communicate with them via email, you still get to monitor what's being sent and received, and you still get to let them practice. Pretty good situation. I'd get the parents' input on it too, since they're a key factor in making it all work. With their buy in, you can accomplish much from a distance. Like demonstrating to your g-kids that that distance can be overcome with some tools, like email. All is not lost. You're all bound for the same shore, but you might be on different boats. Keep trying and keep us informed.

Ibby · 04-24-2007, 06:04 PM

Merc, again and again you show your biases, your prejudices, and each of them tells me to feel sorry for your children.

Why can't you get it through your thick skull that just because someone's younger than you doesn't mean they arent a good deal smarter?

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Merc, again and again you show your biases, your prejudices, and each of them tells me to feel sorry for your children.

Why can't you get it through your thick skull that just because someone's younger than you doesn't mean they arent a good deal smarter?

Because you consistently prove to me by your posts that you are like any other 16 year old I have met on-line or otherwise, and having been through three of my own, combined with the fact that you have no parenting or true life experience yet, that your comments reinforce that notion.

There are plenty of very smart people younger than me, none of them are minor children or teens.

piercehawkeye45 · 04-24-2007, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

There are plenty of very smart people younger than me, none of them are minor children or teens.

Haha, I guarantee that I am a lot smarter than you Merc. I am more open-minded and I can argue without taking cheap shots at people. Not only that, but I know many people that are younger than me that I would consider smarter than myself making them smarter than you. I don't usually talk like this but you are really starting to piss me off Merc.

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Haha, I guarantee that I am a lot smarter than you Merc. I am more open-minded and I can argue without taking cheap shots at people. Not only that, but I know many people that are younger than me that I would consider smarter than myself making them smarter than you. I don't usually talk like this but you are really starting to piss me off Merc.

Some pretty big ASS-You-mptions there my friend...

How can you guarantee that you are smarter than me?

How can you guarantee that you are more open minded than me?

You can argure without taking cheap shots?!?!?!?

Really now....

Let me see if I follow your logic...
You think you are smarter than me, so you know people who are younger who are smarter than you, so you think that because of that the younger people are smarter than me.... And I am pissing you off because I am calling you on your bullshit Ass-u-mptions.....

Hmmmmmm.... Ok.

Ibby · 04-24-2007, 06:42 PM

Aaaaand he does it again. Nothing but prejudice, bias, and ageism from merc.

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Aaaaand he does it again. Nothing but prejudice, bias, and ageism from merc.

The truth hurst doesn't it.

Ibby · 04-24-2007, 08:09 PM

Bigoted against the young, even when they show you up completely and repeatedly.

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Bigoted against the young, even when they show you up completely and repeatedly.

That is pretty funny. Bigoted against the young...

You do sound like my teen.

When are you going to slam your door? Poor persecuted teens of the world.

Ibby · 04-24-2007, 08:26 PM

Yawn.

Troll, troll, troll.

It was fun tearing you apart, come back when you grow a set of un-discriminating morals and I'll try having a real debate.

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Yawn.

Troll, troll, troll.

It was fun tearing you apart, come back when you grow a set of un-discriminating morals and I'll try having a real debate.

Spoken like a true teenager...

Well done. Your peers would be proud. Come on back in about 17 years when you have teens of your own.... HA!

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 09:41 PM

Thank you, Thank you very much.... (Elvis)

Ibby · 04-24-2007, 10:15 PM

I'm still waiting for you to come through on that ban, UT. Any time you're ready...

TheMercenary · 04-24-2007, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

I'm still waiting for you to come through on that ban, UT. Any time you're ready...

I am still waiting for you to answer what you don't want your parents to know about what you do on the internet, what sites you visit, or what is in your email... what do you have to hide???

04-24-2007, 12:41 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Thank you, Big V, for your thoughtful post. You make some really good points here! No, they are not my children and don't live with me. That doesn't absolve me, as a grandmother, of needing to watch over them! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

04-24-2007, 01:01 PM	#2
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	You're welcome, and thank you for the kind remarks. Of course you still have some responsibility for watching over them. But even though you're not in the house with them, you can still share an email address as I described above. Your ability to handhold them for all the other computer-y stuff is not easily done, but if you get some webmail kind of email address, say, gmail.com, there's no reason you can't set it up, give them the login, and share away. You still get to communicate with them via email, you still get to monitor what's being sent and received, and you still get to let them practice. Pretty good situation. I'd get the parents' input on it too, since they're a key factor in making it all work. With their buy in, you can accomplish much from a distance. Like demonstrating to your g-kids that that distance can be overcome with some tools, like email. All is not lost. You're all bound for the same shore, but you might be on different boats. Keep trying and keep us informed. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-24-2007, 06:04 PM	#3
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Merc, again and again you show your biases, your prejudices, and each of them tells me to feel sorry for your children. Why can't you get it through your thick skull that just because someone's younger than you doesn't mean they arent a good deal smarter? __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

04-24-2007, 06:42 PM	#7
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Aaaaand he does it again. Nothing but prejudice, bias, and ageism from merc. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

04-24-2007, 08:09 PM	#9
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Bigoted against the young, even when they show you up completely and repeatedly. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

04-24-2007, 08:26 PM	#11
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Yawn. Troll, troll, troll. It was fun tearing you apart, come back when you grow a set of un-discriminating morals and I'll try having a real debate. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

04-24-2007, 09:41 PM	#13
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Thank you, Thank you very much.... (Elvis) __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

04-24-2007, 10:15 PM	#14
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I'm still waiting for you to come through on that ban, UT. Any time you're ready... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

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