While sexualizing young girls you also make young men distracted and stupid.
A 2 for 1 for TPTB.

I feel like some of the most important things to educate your children with is to not back down from their good values and be the most incorruptible possible.

Young girls should know that they won't get boys that really love em by acting like a slut.

Are their photos and profiles set to private? I guess not if kids from other schools are liking their photos. As an equally protective, and sometimes paranoid parent, I wonder how many of those "likes" are from perverted older males... This kind of thing makes my blood boil as well, and I don't know what ill do when my kids are old enough to want to use Facebook. I don't use it and I honestly don't know if ill let them use it. If I do, I will first scare the crap out of them with true stories of internet stalkers and predators... Not to intentionally scare them, but to inform them, and the truth more often then not, when realized fully, actually IS scary. If it doesn't scare you then you aren't paying attention... Something that will not be tolerated in my household.

Originally posted by User8911
While sexualizing young girls you also make young men distracted and stupid.
A 2 for 1 for TPTB.

I feel like some of the most important things to educate your children with is to not back down from their good values and be the most incorruptible possible.

Young girls should know that they won't get boys that really love em by acting like a slut.

In reality young girls will NOT know that. after all it is only experience that teaches them that

and for how ever many times you tell them, to them, You know 'nothing' They can't imagine

that you have ever been young and know what you are talking about. At that age [13 to 18]

anyone over 30 years is OLD,


My daughter is [touch wood] managing her 15 year old very well. She's told her "Dont put

anything on the net that you would not want me to see" because it will come back at some

stage and bite you on the behind" She also has her password and sometimes looks through to

see whats going on in her daughters life pre empting the likelyhood of bullying, bad language,

and peer pressure. Knowing what's going on has helped to steer her away from seemingly bad

influences, and because of, [or inspite of] this they have a very open relationship.


Face book is not the only thing that can be a problem...............What about the mobile

phone?? One 15year old girl in my grand daughters year was persuaded by her 15year

old boy friend to post 'intimate' photo's of herself to him........Well i'll leave the rest to your

imaginations.

Getting back on topic though I think it is sexualising a lot of girls and a lot of boys too lol some of the pictures my female friends have posted at halloween, enough to give gramps a heart attack.

Back in the day wed have just had to have been there at the time, now its online forever.

A lot of the people behind the forces which are pro sharing like facebook etc are very particular to "craft" the kind of online image they want, eg no rants nothing embarrasing and so on. Its their image, their brand essentially.

The masses however havent quite got this so its still a bit of a free for all with each trying to outdo the other at times, this driven by the very nature of facebook. That is kind of what fuels the addiction in many cases. People need to appear to be interesting after all.

It also can get very emotive at times which again isn't good for an online "image" We have seen 2 threads raising "freedom of speech/hate speech" dialog today. In those cases people are going to go to jail for being stupid online.

It isnt really appropriate in my opinion for children to be exposed to something as sophisticated and as dangerous as a platform like facebook with the above in mind. However I dont see this changing anytime soon. It will take a huge scandal to get people off facebook as they are too deeply entrenched where it has become an institution.

People need to stop thinking "hey this is like my real life but better" and go outside and play. In the meantime everyone, especially parents should be aware of the dangers. I guess you can liken your page to a website about your self including personal info. On such a platform would you really post exactly what you think/wear/do/etc or would you have second thoughts?

PS I know this thread is about facebook, but it is also important to properly close out old accounts elsewhere, some fab info could be gained from say a dormant bebo account which would be useful in my basic threat guide above, important not to leave any embarrasing traces anywhere if you have posted pics/comments/information you might regret! and its easy to find links between accounts once you get started most of the time.

In the end we didnt need microchipped, we just got smart phones and social networking and they just integrated those with the other resources they have behind the scenes. Plus some employers/colleges etc ask for facebook now....dangerous game.

Perhaps there is some agenda at play, a very deliberate attempt to "liberalise" us has been going on for 100s of years. I mean im all for women being able to show some ankle etc unlike the old days but I dont know how far TPTB would try and take it though if this is a scheme and why....if they control facebook though perhaps this is a social engineering attempts to sexualise and corrupt kids younger. I guess they tend to abandon religous view the earlier they start commiting "sins" so I suppose that could all be part of it if its a conspiracy.

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You have it backwards. Young Girls are sexualizing themselves on FB. Its a sign of the times.

Teenage girls want attention from boys????

You're kidding right?

Of COURSE they do, always have, and always will...just that now there are different tools to do so.
This isn't Facebook's fault.

If your daughter puts up an unacceptable pic, be the parent and step in. Force her to take it down, or start taking away the iPhone and laptop, etc. she uses to access it. Finally, threaten to delete the account, terminate phone service, whatever.

Of course, the problem is that there are other means of accessing it outside the home. But, that's where the values, etc. you've instilled come in. All we can ever do is impart our wisdom from learning things the hard way, and hope that some of it sticks. In the end, kids need to make their own mistakes to learn though.

I agree with Gazrok. The girls make themselves take these pictures.. Most of them don't understand exactly what they are doing but if you are opposed.. Step in and tell them how it is.