#11101
Posted: 12/30/05 at 2:52am
"I jumped to close some windows really fast this afternoon"
Heh, yeah, completely reminds me of my life on a daily basis. Most of my friends' parents don't give a crap about what their kid is looking at online.
Hm, well, I don't personally have a MySpace and I don't advocate 13-year-olds having them, but I do think that most older teenagers should be able to handle the responsibility of having one. If not, I think it's fine for the parent(s) to be involved to some extent, but there's a difference between kind-hearted involvement and someone watching your every move to the point where I've become an excessively paranoid person in general.
I also have a couple far-away friends that I've met online and would love to meet in person, but again, I can't because of my parents. I've known someone for over two years and still can't have a phone conversation with her without worrying that my parents are going to notice an "abnormal" call on the phone bill.
To be honest, one of the perks of going to a college far away (as I'll be doing next fall) is that I won't have to deal with this anymore. I don't like to spill my dramatic guts to everyone online, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm definitely in the same boat as you, Em, with a lot of this stuff and it sucks more than people would think.
Heh, yeah, completely reminds me of my life on a daily basis. Most of my friends' parents don't give a crap about what their kid is looking at online.
Hm, well, I don't personally have a MySpace and I don't advocate 13-year-olds having them, but I do think that most older teenagers should be able to handle the responsibility of having one. If not, I think it's fine for the parent(s) to be involved to some extent, but there's a difference between kind-hearted involvement and someone watching your every move to the point where I've become an excessively paranoid person in general.
I also have a couple far-away friends that I've met online and would love to meet in person, but again, I can't because of my parents. I've known someone for over two years and still can't have a phone conversation with her without worrying that my parents are going to notice an "abnormal" call on the phone bill.
To be honest, one of the perks of going to a college far away (as I'll be doing next fall) is that I won't have to deal with this anymore. I don't like to spill my dramatic guts to everyone online, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm definitely in the same boat as you, Em, with a lot of this stuff and it sucks more than people would think.