Why would a parent of a junior high student allow their daughter to open a MySpace page knowing the dangers?

If you feel someone is in danger, you should speak your mind. With that said, myspace is a tool for friends to keep in touch with one another. Myspace is just like any other internet tool. It should have restrictions if a child is using it. The parent should also talk to the child about all the dangers that come with the internet and instruct them on what is unsafe to put on there and what is okay. Also, a parent should program restrictions on there to prevent an outside party bringing unwanted information or images to your child. The internet is just like the real world, just a lot faster. You wouldn't just let your child drive down the streets alone without any seatbelts or knowing the rules of the road would you? You shouldn't let your child roam the internet highways without the rules or safety either. You can go to your child and let him or her know your concern. Tell him or her why you have that concern.

You are the parent of the idiot who is permitting this? Wow. If YOU don't know how to approach your own child for their stupidity, nobody on Yahoo!Answers is going to be able to.

I empathise with your concern. My 11 year old cousin recently created a FACEBOOK page - complete with picture of her in an inappropriately short dress. I was shocked to see it and immediately warned her older sister and also the parents. Unfortunately, no matter how clearly I outlined the potential dangers, the parents - also my cousins - just don't get it. What you could do, and what someone advised me to do: find some stories online about girls targetted by paedophiles via MY SPACE etc, and print them out. Print out police warnings to parents about this too. Give all the print outs TO your child and beseech her to read them for the safety OF her/his daughter.

its pretty much too late now, if the parent didnt care, then i dont think you'll change their mind, my cousin is 13 nd he has had a myspace for 1 year now, i informed his mom, and she doesnt care and he has also posted his number on his status before, i tolld his mom but then he turned around and posted it in his blog!!!! and he still has one!!!

I'm afraid as a grandparent, and not a parent, you can't do much. Unless your granddaughter is being abused or something, there's nothing you can or should do. It sounds like the parent is monitoring her emails, and keeping an eye on things. That's what a parent should do. I don't think I'd allow my daughter to have myspace once she's in middle school (facebook would probably be better, but not necessarily). But most kids her age probably DO have myspace accounts. You have to trust your son or daughter's judgement on this. Also, it sounds like one of the parents (your son or daughter?) is going to YOU because she/he disagrees with his/her spouse. This is pretty childish and strange behavior. Disciplining a child should be something discussed between spouses-- not between grandma and mom. So that is another issue altogether. But generally, when in-laws get involved in marriage spats...THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING. This causes major problems, and it should not be tolerated. I think you should take a step back from this situation. You will feel better if you do.

I don't think you should interfere.

um i dont know becouse if you don`t give your kids enough freedom then they will not care what you have to say becouse they will think you are just trying to control everything about them and they will do a lot of things behind your back that they want to and you might think it`s pretty bad but a lot people have a myspace page and you set on private so that only the people you aprove to be on your friends list can see your page.

Stupid parents do / allow stupid things and then try and push the blame on to everyone when things go upside down instead of taking the responsibility. Hard to imagine isn't it ??

Well, you could suggest to her parents that they monitor it. Such as setting her age to 13, making the page private (That way only people on her approved friend list could view it), having access to the account, and only allowing her to use it to talk to people she knows in the real world. Find stories online about little girls getting into trouble with the internet, and show them to her parents. You could report the page to Myspace yourself- if she states anywhere on it that she is misrepresenting her age- they will delete it.