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Diomedes

#22740
June 20, 2011, 05:00:01 PM
ethical question:  should you look at the content of her texts and pics to make sure she's not doing anything too stupid?

There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

Sgt PSN

#22741
June 20, 2011, 05:11:11 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on June 20, 2011, 05:00:01 PM
ethical question:  should you look at the content of her texts and pics to make sure she's not doing anything too stupid?

I do and I don't see any ethical problem with it.  She puts the info out there for her friends and family to see and so she's going to be held accountable...even when it's stuff that her friends post on her page.  If they post lots of obscenities or something, then I make her delete the comments.  I also check comments that she leaves on her friends pages as well.  She hates it but she's gotten a lot better in recent months about it.  It's just that she gives live updates throughout the day of everything she does.  That's going to be a much tougher habit to break. 

If she wants privacy she can either write in a diary or have the conversations with her friends in person where everyone else can't see it. 

I don't read the text messages on her phone though.  Although I will look at her phone first thing in the morning to see if she was up all night texting, and if so, I'll take the phone from her.  She tried to be slick once and delete the messages before I woke up.  Only problem was that she deleted all of her messages instead of just the ones from the night before.  So I looked at our account online and saw like 200 text messages between midnight and 2am.  She lost her phone for a week because of that one. 

Diomedes

#22742
June 20, 2011, 05:16:32 PM
jesus christ, that's the kind of crap I have to look forward to....I'm f'n doomed.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

rjs246

#22743
June 20, 2011, 05:28:36 PM
Here's an idea. don't give your farging kids cell phones. Our parents all managed to parent us without an electronic leash. What the farg reason is there for a child to have a cell phone?
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

PhillyGirl

#22744
June 20, 2011, 05:32:46 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on June 20, 2011, 05:28:36 PM
Here's an idea. don't give your farging kids cell phones. Our parents all managed to parent us without an electronic leash. What the farg reason is there for a child to have a cell phone?

Sure, give them a phone...but one that's totally restricted to only a few phone numbers (home, parents' work, parents' cell, school). No texting, no internet.
"Oh, yeah. They'll still boo. They have to. They're born to boo. Just now, they'll only boo with two Os instead of like four." - Larry Andersen

Diomedes

#22745
June 20, 2011, 05:33:29 PM
Sounds good on the face of it but I'm guessing that reasonable people have tested that strategy and found it lacking, not least because the device is much more than an electronic leash, especially to the child.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

rjs246

#22746
June 20, 2011, 05:42:56 PM
Um, what reason is there for a child to have a phone again? I'm still confused.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

paco

#22747
June 20, 2011, 05:43:37 PM
Because all their friends have one.
I'm not from Philly but some say I'm blunt.

Diomedes

#22748
June 20, 2011, 05:49:36 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on June 20, 2011, 05:42:56 PMUm, what reason is there for a child to have a phone again? I'm still confused.

Same reason there was for me to have a Nintendo or a BMX (rather than a ten speed).  I wanted one.  It's what I did with my friends. 

Now sure, I didn't need them and would have survived without them, but thank god Mom wasn't you.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

rjs246

#22749
June 20, 2011, 05:55:11 PM
Nintendos and BMXs were one-time purchases that are the equivalent of buying your kid a game. Something that stimulates and wastes time, but is basically harmless.

A cell phone costs money on a repeating basis and encourages your child to socially regress while exposing them to much more than is necessary or healthy.

Your comparison is a poor one.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

BigEd76

#22750
June 20, 2011, 06:04:20 PM
I don't think anyone under high school age needs their own cell phone, and I can see giving them to high schoolers so they can keep in touch after school or whatever, but they absolutely need limits or they'll go fargin crazy with 750+ texts a month.  It's how they communicate with friends though, since using a landline phone is for old ass people like us...

PhillyGirl

#22751
June 20, 2011, 06:06:11 PM
Quote from: BigEd76 on June 20, 2011, 06:04:20 PM
I don't think anyone under high school age needs their own cell phone, and I can see giving them to high schoolers so they can keep in touch after school or whatever, but they absolutely need limits or they'll go fargin crazy with 750+ texts a month.  It's how they communicate with friends though, since using a landline phone is for old ass people like us...

That's kind of what I meant. Before HS, no effing way.
"Oh, yeah. They'll still boo. They have to. They're born to boo. Just now, they'll only boo with two Os instead of like four." - Larry Andersen

PhillyGirl

#22752
June 20, 2011, 06:32:32 PM
"Oh, yeah. They'll still boo. They have to. They're born to boo. Just now, they'll only boo with two Os instead of like four." - Larry Andersen

General_Failure

#22753
June 20, 2011, 06:44:10 PM

The man. The myth. The legend.

Diomedes

#22754
June 20, 2011, 06:47:21 PM
did a baby die at an ICP show or something?
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger
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