Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Dan Sherrier

CNN has an interesting article about children and social networking sites. Basically, it questions what the proper age is to allow children to get on Facebook, MySpace, etc., and it presents several different viewpoints on the matter.

Here’s mine: There’s no reason for children younger than high school to be getting into social networking, regardless of the particular site.

There's a whole wide world off-line.

Before I go further…Parents, I realize you know what’s best for your individual children. I’m simply writing in generalities and providing another perspective.

I know I don’t look old, but I am old enough to remember life without the Internet. I was in the seventh grade when my family got its first household computer, but we didn’t have Internet access until the end of my sophomore year of high school. And that was old-fashioned dial-up, with the funny noise and everything. I was not a habitual Internet user until college, when it became a necessity. Facebook came seven semesters later. Read the rest of this entry »