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Parents Need To Watch This Feb 4th, 2006 - MySpace

abecedarian said:
One of my dds is in the beginning stages of a romance with a guy she met online, not through a dating service, but at a place called meetchristians.com.That one isn't exactly a dating service. It's more like Xanga, but with the goal of being a hangout for more like-minded folks. She's made several friends through Xanga and Facebook, but they've all been through networking with a few people she knew in realtime.
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A cousin of mine got married through a christian online service of some sort. Been married for four years now and have two kids. Funny how that stuff works out eh?
 
SFG75 said:
A cousin of mine got married through a christian online service of some sort. Been married for four years now and have two kids. Funny how that stuff works out eh?
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I was talking to my dh about some of this last night and he pointed out that this form of communication may actually be better for a relationship than even OUR glory days of deserving rebates from Ma Bell and postage due at the post office. He was at KU in Lawrence and I was in Wichita..He also pointed out that we probably knew eachother better than if we'd had the opportunity to 'date' more, because we talked about more stuff in our letters and on the phone, than we might have in f2f conversations. This modern technology can be a great boon if used correctly..
 
One of my students showed me their page today. I don't see how it's any different than from a blog that you can get. I guess the myspace.com business has experienced skyrocketing growth as of late. They must have tapped into something that the blogs haven't. IDK:confused:
 
StillILearn said:
... and close your eyes. :eek:
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Whoever made that siteis one of those kids that you only see occassionally next door. Quiet kid....keeps to himself......you know the rest of the story. Some parent must be very proud.:rolleyes:
 
SFG75 said:
Whoever made that siteis one of those kids that you only see occassionally next door. Quiet kid....keeps to himself......you know the rest of the story. Some parent must be very proud.:rolleyes:
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I have this pet theory: Some (many) of these kids are thwarted geniuses. And they have nothing but infinite creativity and infinite time on their hands. We could offer them rewards of millions -- nay -- billions of dollars to put their brains to good use (i.e. global warming, combating computer viruses, hell -- human viruses -- you just name it) and they could spend their days and nights working on things that might possibly benefit humankind.


I'm serious. We'd all come out ahead.
 
okay. let me ask you something first though... do you remember when you were a little kid how easy it was to wake up for christmas or to go on vacation? but then, it always sucked to wake up for school. the same is true for other situations as well. i think most of those people would rather put their creativity toward something entertaining, like making pointless websites or being more annoying trolls, than working.
 
I'm talking about offering very, very substantial financial rewards though. How much money do you imagine it would take to get the happy attention of one our imaginary genius (let us say) computer virus creators?

(I'm hoping direstraits will chime in on this discussion ... )
 
What makes you think the "genius computer virus creators" are not already employeed by the anti-virus software companies?
 
Motokid said:
What makes you think the "genius computer virus creators" are not already employeed by the anti-virus software companies?
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We could easily bribe them away with only a portion of the zillions of dollars we're spending on anti-virus software at present. :cool:
 
Anything less than gainful employment, smacks of "protection money".."here, if you'll be good and not screw up our computers, we'll give you large sums of money. Gosh, is $$$$$$$ enough??"
My 12 year old tried this ploy just last night, when we were talking about what's going to happen when dh and I take off for a few days to celebrate our anniversary. He wasn't wanting money..he offered to behave if we got him a parakeet...:rolleyes:
I understand what Still is trying to say, the people spending so much time and creative genius on the net, might have their talents and energy put to better use creating solutions to various problems facing our world today, if they had incentives.
Look at the biographies of various inventors, they were not looking for ways to cause trouble, or dodge responsibilty. In fact, each invention was the result of using their talents and abilities to solve a particular problem, and perhaps make a living. The Wright Brothers started by building a better sled, so they could join the neighbor kids, then they made better bicycles, and made a good living selling them.
 
abecedarian said:
The Wright Brothers started by building a better sled, so they could join the neighbor kids, then they made better bicycles, and made a good living selling them.
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Oh, you beautiful dreamer! This just ain't floatin' the boat nowadays, abc. :cool: And, yes, I guess I am talking 'protection money'.
 
StillILearn said:
Oh, you beautiful dreamer! This just ain't floatin' the boat nowadays, abc. :cool: And, yes, I guess I am talking 'protection money'.
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shakes her head, 'tain't right..." I have some theories about what the real root of the problem is, but it gets into talk about moral absolutes and ethics..and I like the mods too much to want to raise their blood pressure unecessarily.
 
abecedarian said:
shakes her head, 'tain't right..." I have some theories about what the real root of the problem is, but it gets into talk about moral absolutes and ethics..and I like the mods too much to want to raise their blood pressure unecessarily.
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Let us just keep it on a strictly pragmatic level then. (We all want folks to do what's right, but that isn't what's happenining in the real computer world of today.)

How much do we really want these (I will be an age-ist and call them kids) to stop spending their incredibly amazing brain power/computer genius on mass computer destruction and turn it to good use?


It's obviously a losing battle the way it stands.
 
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