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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[gentlyepigrams]

I can't imagine wanting to friend anyone under 18 that I wasn't related to.

[kcarp.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Occupational hazard.

The basic issue is that youth don't check email, so a lot of the youth program people use Facebook to get the word out on upcoming events and whatnot. Not my idea of a good time. But at least it can be more transparent than a lot of other forms of communication.

(Why yes, I DID sit in a workshop on safety policies and technology this weekend.)

[gentlyepigrams]

I think this is why our friend John is on. He's a high school teacher.