We are family...

[mcroft]

So, my 13 year old niece has friended me on Facebook. That's pretty cool. And sorta scary.

I haven't censored myself online and, having thought about it I don't intend to. If she's old enough to be on Facebook, she's old enough to find my stuff. I've been pretty tame on Facebook, anyway. She hasn't found LiveJournal (that I know of), thus the post here. OTOH, Google exists. OTOOH, I'd be willing to explain anything she found, so there you go. Hope I never linked to any of the nasty shock sites.

So, yaye, she's starting to be her own person. Very cool.

Here's my question for the collective wisdom of LJ: How would you or have you dealt with the next generation of your family getting on-line?

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[mtfierce.livejournal.com]

I put the lower-explicit label on my journal so that if I get carried away talking about the strange attractiveness of zombie harlot space kittens I can point out, "You clicked the link, little sis."

Seriously, though, I tell my grandma the truth when she asks, and if she doesn't ask, I won't get in her face about it... but she's asking if she's reading. I have some filters, after all.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I refuse to use the explict-labels, because they screw with my RSS reader. I end up not reading those posts at all.

[mtfierce.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Good point. I'll have to consider that. But I'm sanitized for someone's protection, anyway. That's me, taking one for the team.

[ahem]

You've talked me into it. (OK, there was a lot of internalized dialogue that just went on that didn't make the screen.) I've never lied to my sisters, never pretended to lose games to them, and I've never hid the truth when they've asked for something, so I'm certainly not protecting *them.* By the time my children read these things, they'll be used to me. So I'll take off the label since it was only on for my own twisted amusement anyway.