Facebook is wrecking my daughter's future

[katty]

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My youngest daughter, aged 11, who has sneaked a peek in Laurie's room, comes downstairs and snitches by pointing to her face and miming reading a book - her big sister is deep into one of her long Facebook sessions.

With her GCSEs now just weeks away, I am getting desperate. I call Laurie downstairs, sit her down in front of her booted-up laptop and beg her to start the laborious process of disabling her Facebook account.

'You'll thank me for it in the long run,' I say, sounding like the sort of parent I'd never wanted to become.

Laurie stares at the screen. Her fingers hover tentatively


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1263568/Facebooks-wrecking-daughters-future.html#ixzz0kFclRvK6

[dmallind]

1. Notwithstanding the source, the premise is incorrect on its face

Even if absolutely true as written it should be "My daughter is wrecking her future by overusing Facebook".

[katty]

2. yes, that is more the point

[Journeyman]

3. Very true. The same could be said if someone spent too much time playing a computer game. . .

or just generally surfing the web, looking at the numbers for rice production in Botswana instead of sleeping at 3 in the morning.

It's not the liquor in the bottle that causes woe, it's all in how much time and effort you spend taking it out that causes both the joy and the misery.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

Facebook is a tool, just like the computer used to access it or any other tool we use. It can be a great benefit, it can be less so. It's all in how it is used.

[katty]

9. yes, exactly

[handmade34]

4. or maybe...

"My daughter's future is potentially wrecked by her overuse of facebook because I am not disciplining her appropriately"?

or... edit to add

"I am wrecking my daughter's future"

[dmallind]

5. Well that could be an option I suppose, but depends on the basic one

Parenting is only needed to solve problems caused by kids in the first place. If the daughter had more sense the discipline would be not needed.

Of course this could gert recursive prettty quickly in that with better parenting the kid would have more sense. I guess it's a chicken and egg thing!

[paulsby]

7. i was going to post that EXACT point

the article is typical of those with an external locus of control problem.

blaming facebook, instead of the person MISusing facebook to the detriment of other stuff

well put

[Posteritatis]

6. New Popular Thing Threat To Human Civilization

This is a recording.

[thesquanderer]

12. Facebook contributes to global warming (through increased computer usage) (n/t)

[Diclotican]

10. Katty

Katty

Or she should do as I do, when I am not been listen to when its time to do other things than using the dam computer...

I either nab out the ether net cable, so they dosent have contact with the net that way.. Or if it is on wireless, I shut down the ADSL modem, to the next day... That day I got the point ahead..

Kids are not stupid, they know wel when they can push, and when to not push..

Diclotican

[katty]

11. yes, that is an effective method as well-you have to take

control of the situation and do the guidance/parenting required--it is a ongoing process of course.

[Diclotican]

13. katty

katty

If I as an grown up dosen't take controll, who would?..And it is important to do the guidance/parenting as you go too.. One child can be wonderfull and do no harm, the others can do hell on earth in 20 sec.. Hopefully I am not that strict, but also not that a "softball" and that I manage to guidance as best I can... I know when you are a kid, you want to test the limits on your parents - I surly did that when I was a teenager... Even if it mostly was accidencly becouse I tended to do before thinking.. A habit who was given they home more than a gray hear over what to do whit the dimwit...

But for some reason, or another I managed to grow up, and to be an responsible grown up... Not sure why it happent, but it did...

But of course, when I was growing up, we dosent have internet at all.. I don't know about what internet was before I got to what is comparable to your college, and then I had to read about a lot of it, before I finaly got my first PC in 1996 (and I had to paid for it by my own money to, it was EXPENCIVE to say at least)... And since 1997 I have been "hoocked" up, first on a dial up line, and now wireless ADLS net... What times have changed....

Diclotican

[katty]

15. indeed, times have changed, actually it is my view

kids need more 'outside' free time at parks, exploring, just being kids (at least in the U.S. we need more of that)- the tech tools are great, but they cannot substitute for involved, active daily living-not for kids nor adults.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Facebook considers legal action against Daily Mail over underage sex claims

The world’s biggest social networking site Facebook is today considering legal action against the Daily Mail, after the newspaper published false claims that a criminologist who had posed on the site as a teenage girl had found himself immediately inundated with sexual messages from adult men.


Facebook last night issued an unprecedented statement expressing its “extreme concern” at the damage caused to the company’s image. The statement followed consultation with the company’s American bosses who were said to be shocked at the behaviour of the newspaper, which yesterday published an apology for the article.

The Daily Mail report, attributed to former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, carried the headline “I posed as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook. What follows will sicken you.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/daily-mail-apologises-for-facebook-underage-sex-claims-1919747.html

Daily Mail: "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer"

The Mail seems to have a vendetta against Facebook. Whether it just thinks this is a good way to pander to worried parents of teenagers, whether the proprietor or editor have some personal grudge against Facebook, or if they have some financial reason to want to hurt Facebook, I can't tell.

[Posteritatis]

16. Probably the former - irrational panic is the main seller in the news these days. (nt)

[ladywnch]

17. yes, clearly Facebook is the problem.

:sarcasm:

next it will be youtube, ebay, myspace or whatever.....always something/someone else's fault.