Registered sex offender found drunk with kids in car

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3 responses to “Registered sex offender found drunk with kids in car”

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   December 20, 2007

   Dan

   Thank goodness that kid had someone to contact after he’d made such a monster bad decision.

   Am I wrong about Myspace? I might be. It seems to me like it’s meant for young adults. I’ve looked at a bunch of pages and Myspace seems like it’s meant for college-aged kids. The music, the effusive poetry, the clip art, the pics of friends at weekend parties. I can’t quite figure out what grown ups get out of myspace.

   And younger kids, preteens, why do they need it? They need to conspire with real friends for hours, laugh, argue, run around, roll around laughing. They NEED it.

   I’m not nuts about teens using it, but I’m quite certain they’d never give it up. We monitor their social contacts, right? How the heck do we monitor contact with strangers on the internet adequately?

   And the intergenerational thing is beyond me. I love kids and find them fascinating, but I’m not gratified by them socially. That takes peers, other grown ups.

   Maybe what I don’t get is the social exchanges on myspace. They seem so superficial, the ones I’ve read. there’s this self-celebratory page which is really a lovely way for young people to express themselves, but the messages people send are not conversations. They’re snappy little blurbs. I’m disturbed by that because I’ve noticed that in the past 7 or so years I’ve rarely seen teens in conversations that aren’t all sound bites and silly teasing displays of wit.

   Anyway, do grown ups really find their myspace page on contacts satisfying?

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   June 17, 2008

   Leticia

   THANK GOD FOR CELLPHONES!!!!!!

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   June 23, 2008

   David

   Dan I think the reason young kids have myspace pages is because. Say there older brother/sister has one, they want one too.

   I understand where your coming from back when i was 16 we had aol and my parents set up my account so within aol’s home page i could only go into the chat rooms for 16-19 yr olds.
   Low an behold there 80% of the people in the chatroom were below the age of 16 some as low as 10.

   The thought of these young generations miss spent youth makes us all worry. I’m not a particular exception to it ether. Back when I was on aol I used to abbreviate words an consequently learned how to forget spellings an grammar. Then one day I noticed how shocking it had become an from then on tryed my best to write everything in full.

   I have a myspace page and face book only got them last year, don’t particularly use them ether and I’m 20!’

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