On 10/11/10 3:47 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:

"JustWaitAFrekinMinute!" wrote in
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On Oct 11, 1:58 pm, "nom=de=plume" wrote:
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:19:00 -0400, Secular Humouresque
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Who is a regular user of social networking venues such as
facebook, my
space, twitter, et cetera?

Not interested in your user names, just whether you use it
regularly.

Not here. Seems silly to me. If you want a place to put up your
photos, set up a web page. Spare your friends and family from ads,
spam and tracking cookies.

Actually facebook is working it's way into our community and in
fact is
a real standard now.

We FB with about a hundred close friends. We know who is going to
practice tracks, and "where you riding today", "who is going to
rocky, I
need a tire", "which race we all doing this weekend", "any private
tracks open today", "anybody drive me to the track, I got gas money",
"oh man, crashed my bike, won't see you guys for a couple weeks till I
get parts"...

We also have first hand, instant information on race results around
the
NE, injury reports, keep in touch with down riders, and set up rides,
events, homework... on a daily basis.

On a tangent though, I require my kids AND the folks she talks to, to
leave my access to their accounts open and I monitor heavily what she
writes and if her friends want to "friend" her, they must follow my
rules.. I have pulled posts down and once had to ground her for a
week,
but she gets it, she knows every word she types is there forever.

My wife is in a similar situation with the horse community, they are
always on, as there is always issues with horses and riders, and
trying
to schedule riding time together.

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I don't see how you can require yours kids' friends to do anything. How
would you even know? That's just dumb. Why not just require everyone
in the
6 degrees of separation of your kids to give you open access.... that
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Simple, tell your kids to act like young adults on line, and your kids
can talk to my kids on line... period. Hey, no kids are perfect, but
my kids are required to act like aspiring professionals when in open
forums.. No cussing, no rude jokes, no teasing or taunting... Well
except for Crew and Skyler, but they are big boys, they can take it

And yes, my kid hangs out with kids who don't mind if I see what they
write.. They are pretty good kids, maybe geeks, but they refer to
themseoves as "intellectual badasses"...

There's a big diff between having a rule about cussing, etc., and
demanding access to other people's kids accounts, which is what Tosk was
saying. Seeing what other people are writing is pretty easy if you have
access to your kids' account. Why would you need access to other
parents' kids' accounts?



I love the "intellectual badasses" part. Two of them together might have
an IQ of 110.

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