I believe that the statement “Parents should not monitor everything that their middle-school children write online” is true, in a sense. Every kid wants their privacy, but writing blogs and “livejournals” online isn’t really privacy. It’s mostly only privacy from their parents. Parents should respect their children’s privacy but also should be aware of what their writing about. If a parent notices that their child isn’t behaving like they usually do, a quick check on their blog could probably contain the reason. This also means that the answer isn’t what the parent wants to hear, but it’s important to know what’s going on in one’s child’s life. A good example of things where children put too much information in their blogs is from Emily Nussbaum’s article “My So-Called Blog”, where she asked some teens about privacy:
“With so much confessional drama, I began to wonder if interactions ever swung out of control. Does anyone ever post anything that seems like too much information? I asked. They all nodded intently, tossing nervous eye contact back and forth.”
This is the reason why blogging can become dangerous, putting out too much information. This can be dangerous on many levels. There could be too much personal information given out, so a predator could possibly find the writer of the blog. Something could be said about a friend or a friend of a friend, therefore starting a fight within the group and possibly hurting someone’s feelings. Things like this can happen all the time, and from personal experience, it’s not fun.
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