My initial reaction is that her having a MySpace account is trouble, but so far she hasn't put a lot of personal info there and she has restricted her full profile to her 'friends' list. My daughter does not yet know that I know she has a MySpace account. I can see that it looks as if it's only her school friends posting there, yet I worry about online predators.

Has anyone here gone through a MySpace 'battle' with their teen? Do I even need to worry about it?

Oh, and her status says she is 'in a relationship'. That is something I am worried about.

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Been there. I don't like that school info ends up there through posts from friends.

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I'm getting close to where you are right now Aqua. Watch this very closely. Ask questions.

Tough love, dude....

My best advice...make a MySpace account of your own. that way you can talk to the people that she's talking to and know what's up.

My son moved out of the house a few months back and didn't have Internet service where he moved.(<my oldest sons house).A few weeks ago he called me and gave me his id and password and asked me to cancel/delete his account.I guess he just outgrew it or got bored with it...I don't know.I did "snoop" around while I was there!!There didn't seem to be much going on and I think the few incidents that have been reported on the site is minute considering the number of members that belong.

I hate to send up another red flag but..........keep an eye on the text messages sent and recieved via the cellphone!!!I've had more problems in this area than I care to mention....and the sender/reciever is usually in the same neighborhood.

Edit: I forgot .....Do you know why kids' cell batteries need frequent charging?-----They don't delete their incoming/outgoing call lists or their inbox/outbox for text messages!

my daughter is 9 and has various things on MSN and and a few kid oriented sites. I can't say i am too happy about it, but i'd rather she has stuff i know about than have her set up ones (and she is very capable of doing that) i don't know about. I'm not too sure about MySpace stuff and how it works, but at least her email is set to exclusive.

We had a LONG talk about the dangers. I think she is sensible and will seek advice when needed.

She is growing up fast! Sheesh

This was my approach as well.

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That just means she doesn't want guys asking for a date.

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and doesn't want the other girls to know if she doesn't have a guy.

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My 17 year old son has a MySpace account. However, he told me about it, we discuss it, he shows it to me and shows me the things he has posted, mainly poems (dark) and such. I like to think I know what's going on, but that would be presumptuous on my part. I agree, set up and account of your own

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Just read something about how camps & other places are restricting what info the kids put on myspace so the camp's location, etc. isn't given away.

Make sure she knows what to keep off the web.

It's a different world, eh?

my kids aren't old enough yet but i say hell yeah worry. not so much that it keeps you up at night but enough that it keeps you aware. there may only be a small percentage of predators out of the total myspace users, but i know i wouldn't want one of my kids to be a statistic and neither do you. talk to her frankly about the dangers and lay down some rules. i can't say for sure (cause it hasn't happened to me yet) but i don't think i'd keep my knowing a secret.

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My son knows I know because he has his account restricted and I had to be approved to see it. The problem I have is not in what info my sone has given out but in what others have said, "_____ High School's X country ROCKS!!!!!" etc. I know my son is 15 and a big guy but he's still bait.

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would you have told him if his account wasn't restricted?
do you want to yank his privileges because of the comments other people make? i know that wouldn't be fair, but it must worry you.

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I have let it stay because it is restricted. If he opened it to the public I'd have it yanked.

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