1505: In Your Facebook

[Strawdog]

Keith's right in that Facebook should be withheld from kids til they're older.

My girlfriend's kid is thirteen now, she wasn't allowed on facebook until her birthday and not a day sooner, even then permission was given begrudgingly by her mother.

Since then all it's seemed to breed is drama, either it's online bitch-fights, friendships breaking up or these teenage girls whoring it up.

She spends all of her time on facebook too yet rarely actually meets up with her friends (what could you have to talk about after being on chat for 5 hours straight?). What really shocked her mother was how sexually aware she was, from comments and her 'likes' it's clear she's no naive kid anymore (that and the noise of me fucking her mum probably doesn't help).

I think even smartphones should be kept back, she and my girlfriend (a teacher) both have stories of boys in class viewing porn on their phone and showing it to others. No kid needs this level of technology, when I was 12/13, a mere 10 years ago, you talked to your friends at school and played with the kids on your street, not take a thousand self-shots in a mirror and ask your friends to rate them.