July 28, 2010
To the editor:
Hello, everyone! I know you may be against what I write, which is fine by me. We are in a country where little kids as little as 10 years old can join Facebook, e-mail, MySpace, any social network and date sites, and they can sign up with a lie about their birthday. I feel uncomfortable about writing this, seeing this and knowing this.
We need a government building where we can sign up on all these sites. It’d be best to be doing this. One of the reasons is age. Age does matter for social networks, e-mail, dating sites and blogs. Children are being highly exposed to the Internet, which is sad to say.
When I was young, I was just into playing Cartoon Network online and Disney Channel. I didn’t have an e-mail. I didn’t need one. Kids should have cell phones, play online Internet games and play outside.
I truly believe we need to fix our world in this Internet age by having governmental buildings. I feel very creeped out if a kid would add me without me knowing them or not. All kids have no right to be on social networks, dating sites, e-mail, etc., no right at all.
There will be people who would be against this thing, but if they are, I would assume they are sexual predators. We need a governmental building to see an employee who gets records such as our birth certificate, Social Security number and driver’s license. I’m guessing everything would take time to process, but that will be OK. Fourteen years old should be a right age to sign up on social networks.
Look carefully at the grammer and construction of this letter. Sounds like something produced by Acorn.
You moron of course they have the right to do any thing they so choose! it is their parents responsibility to teach them right and control the bad in their life the kids are their parents responsibility not the f'n government go live amongst the other fruits and nuts and quit expecting my government to pay for your shortcomings!
Let me ask you a question Marvin; How often do you help your children or nieces and nephews with their homework? I would suspect from your letter that you would believe that it is the governments job to school children, and you feel no need to be involved. If that is the case please consider that the ultimate responsibility for children resides with the parents.
I await your response.
He's still young enough to remember the authority of the parent and the grandparents in his own home, probably. So he applies that experience to his new adult world, and asks the Big Parent to come in and fix things.
Marvin's letter is a great example of Winston Churchill's saying that a young man who isn't a socialist has no heart, and an old man who isn't a conservative has no brains.
Marvin is still at the feeling stage. The mere fact that he decided to write and get involved at his age should be applauded in itself. As he learns more, he will acquire wisdom and depth of understanding. Hopefully when he's 40 years old he'll recall this letter and smile about his idea of a government agency to sign up people for social networking sites. If he learns well, he'll start thinking about balancing the need to protect children and the need to protect individual liberty, including free speech and freedom of association.
At least the man is thinking and getting involved. Good for you, Marvin.
Whatever on earth happened to parenting?! Marvin, would you come into your living room and blame the government or society if your kiddo was watching pornography, or would you simply START TAKING CONTROL OF WHAT REACHES YOUR CHILD'S PURVIEW!
I get that it may be hard in a day and age that requires two or three jobs per-family just to put food on your families, but you can teach your kids responsibility. You can limit their access to materiel. It's not hard to take your internet router's power cord with you when you leave the house. It's not hard to lock up smut inside your house. Heck, they even have those government TV controls on any TV made in the past ten years if you happen to have cable. Move your ass already, Be A Parent!
goverment building.
I got news for you Marvin. You still are young.
Parents seem to want the schools to raise our kids. Nope, I don't want to get started.
if you don't want your kid on these sites ..deal with it ..
is not the governments job to raise your kids..
that is one of the biggest problem today ..
parents are passing off the responsibility of raising their kids,
to the government ..
if you can't do the job ...don't breed ..