My 9yr old daughter wants an MSN account. Our pc’s in our dinning room, a very communal area. What are the safe guards with MSN type stuff? When she was 6yrs old the wife caught my daughter on the internet trying to buy a horse so I need to be careful! Is msn full of pervs?
Any help received will be greatly appreciated.
Fanx,
Sneaky
My daughter whos 10 has had one for a few years, she uses it to chat to family and family friends who dont live near us or in the UK. She has some school pals on it too.
My pc is in the living room too, so I can monitor what shes doing, not that i dont trust her anyway. I have it set so it keeps her chat logs and i obviously know her passwords so I can also monitor emails etc.
IF your daughter gets an account, make sure she doesnt go into her MSN Space (or whatever it is called now) and enters personal details, such as school etc. My friends daughter did this, luckily I had her on my msn, I looked at her Space one day and noticed she had entered her full name, town, school, and even listed her friends names… I called her parents straight away!! :blink:
Don’t let her is my opinion.
So many of them get addicted or spend ages in front of the screen, creates conflict and also effects them badly.
Seen it first hand, it’s a big no no as far as I’m concerned. She’ll survive without, you’ll get the usual ‘my friends are allowed to do it’ but just cus they are doesn’t mean it’s right.
Hope that helps.
We don’t have kids so have never used the “parental controls” section on the BT email but they are there and most Internet providers have them.
You can set it so they can only look at certain things / at certain times / if the parent puts a password in. Worth investigating.
Joolz is all over it like a rash… if you decide to let her on it (and i think its best to let her on it and monitor it, rather than not let her and then she’ll do it behind your back) make sure you help her set it up and know her passwords and set it to save the MSN histories…
its a bad addiction matey, my nephew is glued to the PC whenever he gets his chance.
Worse thing is trying to stop them cos they work on computers at school! what on earth happened to writing letters and the like…:w00t:
Having access to MSN isn’t so bad, just as long as she’s not adding anybody onto it, just friends from school etc. Stuff like online chat rooms aren’t so great, but MSN not too bad. Just make sure you know what she’s doing on it, and if you’re worried about her being online too much then just give her a certain amount of time that she’s allowed on there. And hour after dinner or summit. You can also set the parental controls on whatever firewall you have, and in some cases even set it up so it will just disconnect the internet at a specified time.
If she’s a sensible girl and you just keep an eye out I’m sure it will be fine. You’re more likely to trust each other better this way aswell, rather than giving the possibility for her to just do it anyway and leave everyone getting a bit cross 
Seems odd to be sitting online saying “don"t let her do it” :w00t: Do as I say , not as I do??
Go Whistler 
I really don’t reckon it ‘effects them badly’, just gives them some way of chatting to mates. I know some people get too obsessed with being on the computer but it’s not that often, and at 9 years old kids usually have other stuff to be doing, and by 13 they’re off out with mates, to the cinema, and by 16 they’re out drinking, so the healthy balance of things is restored.
I already have to fight to get on our pc as it is without giving the kids any more excuses to stay on here any longer!:w00t:
