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Large award goes to…

OK, first off, I have a large “Screw You” award to hand out. This goes to all those parents and guardians and choose to read their child’s chatlogs, blogs, ect. It just seems to me like a total invasion of privacy. How can you expect your kids to trust you if you don’t trust them? Now I can understand it if there is a reason to distrust them. For example, if they were already caught building a bomb in the basement, well that’s a pretty significant reason to monitor them online. However, if they were caught looking at porn or saying the dreaded “f word” when you walked by, it’s not a good reason to take away they’re rights to freedom of speech.

By now, I’m sure there will be readers thinking “What the hell does this guy know about kids? I can do whatever the hell I want to.” Well sorry to tell you dear reader, you can’t. If you know it or not, it is possible for your kids to hate you. And you not letting them live, well that’s pretty good grounds to do so I think.

If your kids have something they want to tell you, they will. If they started a blog, they’ll probabally show it to you. That’s the only time they want you looking at it, until they tell you to look at it again. Just because you know it’s there doesn’t mean that you have to read it every update. There is a good chance that a child will blog about you, and there is about a 50% chance that it will be negitive. Does this make you even more suspecting of your kids? Well it shouldn’t. Any intelligent person should already know that their kid is probabally saying something about them to one of their friends anyway, it’s normal, and it’s not hurting you if you don’t know. This brings me to the Basis of All Blogs.

Basically the idea behind all blogs is the idea that everybody can read it, they may be reading, but in reality they’re not reading it. Bloggers write something to be read. Anybody can read it, all they have to do is go to the address. The blogger doesn’t know who did an who didn’t read it because comments aren’t required. But when you look at the whole of the internet, there is little chance that the webpage address will go very far, and therefore won’t be read by many.

Why, you may ask, do bloggers even bother then? Well, it’s because it’s a release of emotions and thoughts. Blogs give you something that a journal or diary can’t, the thought that other people can know what you think. People often say that writing something in a diary can get it off your chest. However from personal experience, I find this just can’t do what blogging does. When you write something on paper and hide it under your pillow, you’re still the only one who has those feelings and thoughts as far as you know. When you blog, other people can feel those things and think those thoughts, evne if they actually don’t. That goes back to the fact that they aren’t reading it. But the blogger will still think that they are, therefore releasing any emotions that remain tied to the words, which would stay tied if in a diary.

Confused yet? Oh good, then I’m on the right track. Now back to your children. Kids go through one hell of alot of changes before they become an adult, and obviously, it’s not easy. They easiest thing to do is to tell somebody, but that can be embarrassing. So why not tell everybody without needing telling anybody? Seems like an easy thing to do, and it is. Let the emotions fly, doesn’t matter where to, but away. Sure they may feel that the internet becomes their own security blanket to cry on, but what harm can it do?

Now do I have you worried yet? So you’re thinking that I’m telling you to just let your kids tell their life story online to anybody willing to read it, right? Well, not totally. You have to take into consideration the vast galaxy that is the internet. You may think that if your child says something that some guy will come pick her up at school and you’ll have one less mouth to feed. If only, right? Well set some basic, general rules for your kids, which they would probabally already think of themselves, and they’ll be just fine. For example, tell them to avoid saying the name of a city, school, mall, etc. Tell them just to say something like “at my school” instead of “at Lakewood High” or “At Joe’s Diner”. And avoid last names. First names are fine, unless for some strange reason everybody else on the planet with the same name dies; then we have a larger problem.

So there, that’s all I’m going to ramble about for now on this. For the conclusion to this topic though, I’m simply going to say this: Trust your kids, there is a good chance that they know what they’re doing because I can bet money that they’re smarter then you are. Yes, they ARE smarter then you are. So sit back, relax and put your feet up. Let them screw up and you can say “I told you so” when they come to you for help, because everybody likes saying that.

For those still reading, check out this article, which is how all this started.

Now as for my life: I’m leaving tomarrow to go to Ontario. Bus takes off around 6, so I’ll show up at 5 or so. I’m kind of worried about it all though, to be honest. I have 4 connecting tickets (A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E). When I called the bus station, they told me I was changing buses at B and D. When I was talking to the company, on their hotline, They said I only changed at D. So what’s with C then? I don’t know. Plus there is no times on the tickets, or bus numbers or anything. What organization. Just a recommendation, take a train or fly if you’re going anywhere. Oh well, it should be fun.

And I hate Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic. It’s so addicting that I’ve spend teh last 3 days playing it and haven’t picked up my munchies yet or packed my carry-on bag, which I was going to do today. Damn Wookie.
That is all.