Aftering seeing all the reports being done about what children are releasing on online communitites and blogs, I took a closer look at my neice and nephew who are on myspace.com. I was shocked when I saw my 8-year-old neice ask to be my friend, and her profile said an 17-year old female. My nephew who is 11 has his age set at fourteen in order to be able to be on myspace. They both have several pictures of them and their friends, and tell about themselves on their “about me” section. Me being the over-protective aunt have sent them all the stories and studies about children and predators online, and have tried to monitor what they release and don’t. But like many of the studies say you can’t monitor everything these kids are doing online, they both spend on average about 2 hours a day on the computer.
