Larry and all!

Of course social networks are early warning systems, perhaps in the way that those children/minors using these internet networking sites and are being approached/ solicited by online predators and have no idea, all we need to do is read the facts. Larry, I know you have done much work with The Center for MIssing and Exploited Children, I as well look at them as a model and a resource for much of the information I post to my website...www.milkfly.com- Keeping Children Safe. Onlien predators lead to many of the missing/ kidnapped children thus, connect many of us to The Center for MIssing and Exploited Children and to The AMber Alert. I am on a mission, I feel it is the least I can do, to have the public directed to my website and simply download the AmbertAlert Bar and Missing and Exp;oited
children Bar to their website home pages as well as to mobile alerts that may be affective in your area. The more attention this receives the more we as individuals can contribute to the safety of our children, on and off the internet.

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Margo Zaluski
Owner
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i use to check my 17 yr. old daughter's myspace, so i can keep tabs on what she and her friends are up to....but never acted on any "questionable" activity....more or less made it hard for her or steer her away....but now, she has one of those "by invitation only" on her myspace and there is no way....i'm invited. she is an only child, so her "net friends (mostly school friends)" chat, so what is the next course of action. kids need "friends"....good or bad peers....taking away her myspace is not an option....she will just look and find another way/site. the hope is that what you taught them....they learned....many times it seems like they are someone else's kid and you say....what were they thinking?? now what????

thanks,

Absolutely, you want to know what's going on with your kid, read their myspace logs or blogs. A parent wouldn't be a parent if they ignored those tools while their teen was going down hill. To sit idely by and be afraid to invade your kids privacy when you as a parent know something is wrong would be outright foolish.

Social networking sites can give a parent the information they desperately need to take action and help their child.

You should never put privacy above safety when it comes to kids. Kids sometimes need to be protected from themselves.

-Rich
TheParentsEdge.com

Okay this is a touchy subject
But it can be an early warning sign because many teens do not think that people they do not want to see what they put up will not see it (That is also partly why children get abducted but that is besides the point) As far as adults useing it, I know many that use it to keep in contact like it is intended for.

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-Rasma