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About your reply to my comment above. It made me smile that you assumed our ‘AOL controls’ were about what we let our daughter see or visit. It’s not about what she’s allowed or not allowed to see. It’s about the amount of time she spends online, the amount of non-cyberworld stuff she’d let drift by if there were no boundaries. The story I told you about MSN and Bebo etc was from a few years back when she wasn’t even a teenager.

I can tell from your wonderful writing, your maturity and your response to my comment about mobile phones that you’re intelligent and that your parents have done a great job – you’re using your skills to inform and inspire people like us over at Blogopolis Blueprint – but have any of the kids at your school been cyber-bullied into suicide while their parents were happily letting them roam, unaware of what exactly they were doing? It’s a two way communication thing as well as a trust thing. It’s still our resonsibility as parents to take an interest in what our kids are doing so that we can learn from them as well as guide them if necessary and keep them safe.

I think online education’s the future and I agree with Sean that our kids definitely need the technological skills you so clearly have, Dan, but I still feel a balance is needed.
@Sean – why don’t you have cable TV?

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My parents just let me roam free. I guess they assume at one point I am going to see whatever I see now so throwing it all out the window is their outlet.

@Writer Dad: I guess your right. They set me up with a laptop and just let me roam. If it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be at the Blueprint right now making this comment.

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I feel so OLD!!! Nine years ago, I couldn’t turn on the computer. Last month I learned what widgets and plugins were. Yesterday, my young teenage daughter taught me how to do smileys in my blog comments box. Normally I love learning, but technology and social networking memes are spreading so exponentially that I feel permanently left behind. So I write with a pen. I read. I listen to music, I sing, hoping that there will always be a place for those.

My daughter’s roughly your age Dan, but was ridiculed at school a few years back because she was the last person to get Bebo, wasn’t allowed Facebook or MSN, has AOL time limits and parental controls on her laptop and still isn’t allowed to answer her mobile phone while she’s talking with us face to face or with others.

But she isn’t ridiculed now. She decided to focus on her singing, songwriting, acting and writing. She wants a blog and has suddenly realised she has the content – original content – all in place. She has a band and writes songs for it; she sings in concerts, acts in plays; she writes stories that leave me breathless. Twitter? As a parent, I’ve said no. She already feels like there aren’t enough seconds in her day to do all the things she’d like to. When she’s ready to build an audience, then I reckon she’ll dive into social media.

I look forward to checking out your site with her. Well done, Dan. Fantastic piece. And thanks Sean and Eric for knowing this would be a cracker!

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With the years I’ve spent in IT support/repair and training I have a ton of anecdotes, some you won’t even believe. Heck if I hadn’t have dealt with the people in person *I* wouldn’t believe them!

Eric, we should swap stories one day