Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 401 Editor's Choice: 18
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I never said that Lola
[Read the article: MySpace, my attorneys general]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are projecting, perhaps how you project your children are morons who are incable of making some decisions?
No, there certainly should be restrictions, reasonable restrictions like sure you can go to that party, after I speak to that kids parents, not you are never ever allowed to go to a party because i can't trust that you won't drink beer or smoke a joint.
Sure you can go to the movies with your friends, after I drop you off at the theatre, not you are never allowed to go anywhere with your friends without me because I don't trust that you are telling me the truth.
Sure you can join that soccer team or go on that date, after I meet the boy and maybe his parents or meet the team coach and you show up, not no boys or girls ever cause I can't trust you to be safe and control yourself.
You are talking about a ban, as a former teenager I saw how outright bans did not work, especially from things all of their peers were doing.
Also, I had to help raise my brothers as I was the secondary parent, I had to change diapers, pick up from daycare, cook, clean, help with homework, enforce dicipline and rules, which can be harder when your brothers scream, you're not mom.
I had to learn how to be an enforcer without the name of mom granting me automatic authority.
My brothers still come to me for help a lot more often than my mother because they are used to it. They moved out of her house to live down the hall from me.
Also, I am tired of the assumption that popping a kid out of your nether regions automatically means you know what you are doing. There are plenty of children in foster homes that can attest that their parents have no damn clue how to be a parent. Suppernanny and Nanny 911 and child psychologists often know how to structure a healthy family life without raising children themselves because they are emotionally removed from the situation and can look at things in a more rational manner, than from the fear based reasoning many parents operate on.
Just like being married doesn't mean you know how to make a marriage work.
You act like because I think a ban on a social website is stupid, means I think bans on everything are stupid. I would in no way hand your child a drug, a gun or a cigarette. The internet is in everyone's life, I can't even avoid dumbass Facebook, though I spend little time on it. All of my friends insisted I get an account so they could keep me updated on stuff they don't want to make an individual phone call about. I like real people more than internet people, but all my internet friends are people I already knew. I realize that these social networks are going to be more and more necessary as technology marches on and if you are a parent I think it is more rational to teach your children boundaries, tell them you trust them but that you'll be watching and you'll be there if they fall.
MySpace is not that different than having friends at school, I think people on MySpace are dorks, I prefer to not spend a lot of time on the computer, but I realize I didn't go to high school when the internet hit, I was in college. The internet is less important to me than it is to people just 4 years younger than myself. I am smart enough to realize that the world changes and not think that the way I lived is the same for those who've come after me. So learn the new tech, understand it and monitor it. It's better than being a luddite.
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Emo John sucks
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any new show I'm interested in I give a 3 episode test, the SC Chronicles are not winning! No season pass for you!
Now they give Sarah cancer, woo hoo, more for the kid to whine about I suppose?
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Air
[Read the article: Apple's solid Macworld is kind of a letdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not interested really, if I can't put my CD's or DVD's on it, what do I care. I don't like everything digital.
Apple TV, don't need it.
I also don't like the 24 hr period, but that's the same on Amazon unbox. Why, becuase say I fall asleep watching the film. Then I wake up and have to go to work, I get home at 7 or 8pm, what if the movie is gone becuase I started watching it at 8pm the night before, or I don't have enough time to watch the rest of the movie before the 24 hr cut off.
I say, lets not download any of this stuff and let the studios know their 24 hr download is stupid. At least 48 or 72 hours, that's near the same as a brick and mortar store and they only have the 24 hour deal on new releases becuase they are being considerate of other customers who will want to see it. No one is wating when it's downloaded digitally.
As for the iPhone, don't have one, don't care. I haven't even upgraded to Leopard yet.