Comments on: Shooting the Instant Messenger http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699 Addled thoughts of a quality assurance dope Fri, 18 May 2012 10:11:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Abel http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1975 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:36:30 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1975 Oh, the evils of the Internet!!! Of course before IMing came along teens never talked about sex or how to take illegal drugs safely. I can't believe how technology has currupted our youth. It would have been so much easier to become a dad before the Internet came along. My parents had it really easy. Oh, the evils of the Internet!!! Of course before IMing came along teens never talked about sex or how to take illegal drugs safely. I can’t believe how technology has currupted our youth. It would have been so much easier to become a dad before the Internet came along. My parents had it really easy.

]]> by: Bob V http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1979 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:29:12 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1979 "We're facing essentially the same problems we always have" dosen't sell as much copy as "IM is the new threat that will turn your kids into drug addicts." “We’re facing essentially the same problems we always have” dosen’t sell as much copy as “IM is the new threat that will turn your kids into drug addicts.”

]]> by: Spungen http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1982 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:43:52 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1982 <i>If you realize that something is wrong (even if you don’t know that it’s cocaine) and you do nothing to reign your kid in, that’s not the Internet’s fault.</i> You know what scares me? I have no fucking idea how to rein kids in once something like that starts. I've seen a lot of parents try many different things, and I've never seen anything work. It seems like one somehow needs to prevent whatever situations give rise to it in the first place. If you realize that something is wrong (even if you don’t know that it’s cocaine) and you do nothing to reign your kid in, that’s not the Internet’s fault.

You know what scares me? I have no fucking idea how to rein kids in once something like that starts. I’ve seen a lot of parents try many different things, and I’ve never seen anything work. It seems like one somehow needs to prevent whatever situations give rise to it in the first place.

]]> by: trumwill http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1984 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:08:24 -0500 http://hitcoffee.net/index.php/file/699#comment-1984 It's certainly a scary prospect and to some degree I guess you need to try to prevent it from getting there in the first place. But whatever you do, monitoring who they talk or spend time with (on the Internet or otherwise) to would be a part of that It’s certainly a scary prospect and to some degree I guess you need to try to prevent it from getting there in the first place. But whatever you do, monitoring who they talk or spend time with (on the Internet or otherwise) to would be a part of that

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