Q What is the right age for my children to have their own MySpace profiles? How would you recommend monitoring their Web pages?
A MySpace has more than 40 million members and gets about 15 percent of all the Internet hits in the country, so caution is advised. Officially a child has to be 14 to have a private MySpace page - meaning they have to invite ‘‘friends” to join their site. This does offer some control over who has access to your children’s profiles.
How mature are your children and do you have a good honest relationship with them? It is important to explain the dangers of putting information on the Internet for the world to see; there are many predators out there. Be sure your children are cautious when setting up a MySpace profile: They will be asked for all sorts of personal information that could be used for other purposes. How about just using a first name or nickname?
Have your computer in a common area where you can monitor what is being exchanged on the Web site. Give constant reminders that your children’s online friends may not be who they seem. You can be invited onto your children’s sites and periodically ask your children to see their profiles. Of course, your children may set up multiple profiles under different names, so you may not be able to see everything they are doing online.
Have you actually been to MySpace.com yet? Although people argue that this is a good vehicle for keeping in touch with peers, I am appalled at some of the stuff I’ve seen there. Why not set up your own profile so you can see firsthand what is going on and discuss your concerns and rules with your children.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
There’s a new thing I’ve heard about for parents called Reputation Defender. I don’t know if it actually works (it’s like $15 a month so I haven’t signed my kid up yet), but supposedly they search all of the networking sites and see what private info your kid has put up, and whether your kids’ friends have put stuff up about them. Talking is defiinitely the best way to solve the problem, I agree, but there’s so many pages out there that it’s almost impossible to track everything!
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