Scary Comments
I’m not a privacy scholar guru or anything, nor do I know much more about social networking sites than from monkeying around on my high school’s facebook network now and then. That’s stuff that only danah boyd understands.
But these parental comments, on a random forum, struck me as scary!
excerpt:
I do not believe teenagers “need” privacy-not when it comes to the internet.I track everything my kids do online. I search their bedrooms too. I’m the parent-I’m not their friend. I’d have a stern talking to him asap. I wouldn’t care if he got pissed-if he got mouthy about it, I’d pull his computer privileges and not let him go anywhere except to school and back.
He should consider that lucky…as a mother of a teenage daughter, if it were MY daughter who was his ex gf, he’d have more problems than losing internet rights & visiting his buddies. He’d be scared to leave your side.