But as a father, I don’t want my child roaming helter-skelter across the Internet.

Outside of the obvious problems of safety and the inappropriate nature of many things on the Internet as well as wanting to moniter what comes in, I’d rather he met real people in real life.

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but children are still children. Children raising children isn’t turning out to well in modern American society.

Things may not get to the level of “Lord of the Flies” but children will always need guidance. And part of that guidance comes in the form of adults/parents monitoring and filtering what comes into their world.

They’ll have their whole adult lives for technologically based social networking. At that point, they will have the skills to make better choices and have a deeper understanding because their parents were around to give it to them.