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Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?... |
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by cookclan (April 2007) (rank 12th) |
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I really wanted to write some advice about something that has been worrying me for a while...Aidan had some friends over the other night and we were sitting out the back listening to music and haveing a chat and a bit of a sing along with the music...It then became more
of a karaoke style sing along...At about this time one of the boys said they were going to tape this and put it on you tube for the world to see...
One of the girls turned to me and started to talk to me about a disturbing video she had seen on you tube which was of pornographic nature and had really upset her and her friend that had seen it...It was a date rape...She told me what she had seen and the fact that she just turned it off etc....This prompted me to have a look myself as I know my kids have searched for videos on you tube and I have seen links to some on Minti...
When I actually got on there I was more than shocked at what I could find...If I typed it in it came up no matter what it was or how gross the actual thing I was looking for was...The place was full of not only degrading things of women and men but also alot of nasty and stupid things to animals and actually ridiculous things that some silly people do...One guy had a wd 40 can and hit it with a stick or something and it blew up imagine that thought in a young teen boys mind...etc....Mind you I did find some educational things on the site...
My advice to anyone with kids who are using this site for looking for things all well and good but I will for one be fully monitoring my kids use of this site and only allowing it on my computer instead of letting them research it on their own...I know we have to allow them to have a little leeway when it comes to computer use but unfortunately the risks of what can be seen on this site are too high for me to let it unsupervised again....
Just my thoughts on this subject and wanted to share them with all of you...
Do you kids Youtube???
Have a great day
Cheers
Angie