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Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

cookclan by cookclan Young Parent(April 2007) (rank 12th)
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
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roseybud
February 2008 | roseybud
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

yeah i agree. it's sad that there are people out there who are ignorant enough to upload such stuff.

i am pretty sure youtube has a policy about pornographic and other degrading videos, where they will get deleted after they have been reported.

if many of these things do get through, even if they last a day maybe youtube would have to resort to viewing videos before they are added, but then with the thousands uploaded every hour that would be a tough job.

 



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Frontier
January 2008 | Frontier
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

My 8yo has looked at a few things on Youtube but never on his own. He likes looking at Star Wars / Star Trek movie shorts and Leggo Starwars shorts. I am trying the new MS Luive Parental filter on our family PC and it seams to filter most things ptretty well (early days but good so far).

I have not tried to deliberately find a naughty site yet (just in case it does not work and I ger distracted .

The good thing about this filter is that each child has tyo sign in to their own account which you can configure to limit what they can do.



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cassaustin
5.00 (Excellent) | January 2008 | cassaustin
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

Great article. I myself have never been interested in having a look at you tube. But my partner does - he watches the ultimate fighting championship fights on there. I know that when searching for these fights, he has been linked to girls mud and jelly wrestling, also to street fights, men and women in punch ups, all sorts.

I hate to think what my son will be seeing when he is old enough to get onto the internet



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whome
January 2008 | whome
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

great article shame about the idiot down belowxxxshar



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whome
January 2008 | whome
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

What a saddo, have a nice day only loser i see is you



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anniebabe
5.00 (Excellent) | January 2008 | anniebabe
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

youtube caught my eye i just had to read the article. my children are adults but i find this advice is excellent. there are so many young children out there that accidently stumble across things and youtube is easy to do that.

you unintententionally are watching something and it comes up with other things that are "related" and before you know it you habve snowballed into different tangents

once again excellent advice



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whome
5.00 (Excellent) | January 2008 | whome
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

Theres an article tonight in my local paper, it sho a man bricking to death a tiny duckling on you tube, makes me sick



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whome
5.00 (Excellent) | January 2008 | whome
Re: Youtube...Do your kids do youtube?...

Iwould never let any child on you tube, your so right its full of idiots. And some of the filth thats on there makes me sick. Well done for checking it out



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emmysmum
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | emmysmum
utube....
There are only two things i have seen on youtobe and that was a man interviewing and he made the bloke laugh....geez it was funny....and i think the other one was a baby laughing!
But other than that, i don't use YouTube.....haven't been on the site in ages! I know there is some stupid stuff on there though.
Great article angie... thanks for sharing your experience!


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nell18-3
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | nell18-3
You Tube
Yea I know
Thanks Angie
My boys got told about this through mates at school, so I only allow them on You Tube when I am around to keep an eye on what they are watching
Great article
xxx


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MummaBear
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | MummaBear
No breastfeeding allowed

My brother has got some awesome things on youtube, and I've had a look around too and have found things that have been shocking and not even legal.  I was surprised to learn though that not so long ago they had banned any breastfeeding videos on there as it upsets people.  That ban has been lifted but only after a petition and that ABA pushing for it to ban any sexual acts, course language, and adult themes or bring in the breastfeeding ones. It's amazing what people take offense to isn't it?



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blackwidowkate
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | blackwidowkate
Like all sites
Hi
Just like all sites and searches...you can find what ever you want on the net
Makes you wonder why it is not cleaned up hey.
The internet is becoming so dangerous for everyone.
Was supposed to be safe and fun but paedophiles and sickos are everywhere now.
Soon ABC and The kids shows will no longer be safe.
Take a stand and lets start cleaning it all up
Luv  Deb


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Deborahsc2203
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | Deborahsc2203
not good

you know i really think that the site should have admin to go through things like that as its shocking to see even by mistake and its just teaching lots of people to actually do something soo horrible and and film it upload it there just soo they can like heros  to their friends



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MadMel
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | MadMel
YouTube
Yes I saw the Sydney school bashing. That was a little upsetting for me, let alone some kid! There are some shocking things on there!!


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lexiw
5.00 (Excellent) | April 2007 | lexiw
great article angie

I think it is a shame that a heap of sick twisted disgusting freaks can ruin what could potentially be a great site.

 Lexi xxx



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