Posted on 07/21/2014 11:58:26 AM PDT by Morgana
You had a Sears catalog? I was so poor when I was growing up that my parents had more children so I would have something to play with.
And yet old timers still thought you were given too much
I didn’t claim anything definite. I’m just suggesting that it may be the case. I’m just doubting that 10yo’s without some inclinations combine gay and naked searches in that way at the same time.
“Yes, but it was the 80’s already”
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It does make a difference,doesn’t it?
My post was ridiculous.
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You don’t have to look for them. A single wrong keystroke and boom!
Imagine you are a teen who was just diagnosed with MS, and you Google teen.ms instead of teen+ms
You will very likely see a porn site as one of the top returns at the search engine.
It would be worse if it was today I guess.
“What’s a Google?” would get a kid ostracised very fast I guess
lol
I was the middle kid of 5 myself
Different stuff, for one thing 2 out of those 3 kids can’t even legally own.
No the parent gave the child a smartphone. Which can include, depending on how you set it up, access to a lot of stuff, good and bad. They were smart enough to check history periodically, but not smart enough to block access. Now they’ve blocked access. So now, according to your new nuanced position, it’s OK that the kid has a smart phone. And yet your original post, reading from the top, was “what child needs a smartphone?” If you were ACTUALLY talking about parental responsibility in that first post you’d have asked “what parent doesn’t block porn on any internet device their child can get to”. But that wasn’t your question. Reading from the top parental responsibility wasn’t your first complaint.
I’m sure.
It wasn’t as bad as....
“Why do you want an Optimus Prime for Christmas? There is nothing wrong with new socks and underwear”
I’ve seen some of the sites which ask you if you are over 18. Yes or no. Then you click the appropriate box. If a child clicks that he is over 18 , then he will have access to the pornography site.
You have got to be kidding.
I still think it is ridiculous for a 10-year old to have a “smart”phone. I do not think it is good parenting.
Oh, I agree with that. My poor mother, who is in her 80s, likes The Golden Girls TV show. She did a search on the internet for “Golden Girls” and accidentally clicked through to a porn site. But if there is a history of multiple sites on the kid’s phone, its probably evidence that he didn’t just happen upon the sites by mistake.
My kids know that every electronic device in the house — except mine — will be smashed instantly upon discovering any untoward search (and not replaced for years). Done it before, for other reasons. Do have all the parental controls available.
Most of my coworkers their kids have smartphones. It’s the economic bracket we’re in. And they’re nicely locked down, because we’re paid to understand that stuff.
You could be right but thats how those places work. I’ve seen it happen. The pornographers target sites that are frequented by kids. The kid tyes in something innocent and get some edgy responses. The kid clicks on one of those borderline links and is taken one step further. In 4 or 5 clicks they kid is in the gutter where the sleaze purveyors want them.
Yep. Big difference between the Playboy Dad had stuffed in his sock drawer, and the hardcore stuff that's about 3 mouse clicks away.
I recently put an internet filter on my computer. I'm not *too* worried about WBill Jr - yet - but I'd like to keep him from tripping over anything inadvertently.
I installed it, typed in "Playboy.com" to test....and went right to the site. "Hmmmm.", I thought, and tried "Hustler.com". Holy cow, talk about an eyefull.
Turned out that it was a problem with the way that the filtering software was installed .... but man, things have changed since I was 14 or so.
and they TRY to attract children. There are now sites that have animated porn using characters from “Frozen” and “The Simpsons” and everything else you can think of.
You would think the copyright owners would be able to do something about it.
Ha! I still get crap from my co-workers, years later, on this. "Experts-exchange" is an excellent technical website, lots of good IT advice, and I spend a lot of time on it.
However, ONCE...ONE TIME!! I left out the hyphen....taking me to "ExpertSexChange", which as you can imagine, is a totally different site. :-)
It wasn't 10 minutes before the internet guy wandered over to my office....."So, WBill....anything that you'd like to talk about?" ha ha ha.
lol
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