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Parents And The Computer?

My dad locked me out of my computer last year by having me make him the admin and making it so I was blocked to getting on the computer at all times. So I cracked is password.
 
We used to have the computer downstairs in my sister's room, and I (9 or 10-ish at the time) could be down there for hours and no one would care. Nowadays my parents still trust me not to give out info to random strangers, and those that do know my info (internet-wise) are people I trust. Sometimes, though, they get kinda paranoid or just generally weird about things since most of my friends on the internet are just a bit older than me, but whatever. My dad actually agreed to let me meet one of them (we didn't get to meet up tho), which was very surprising. o_O
 
Scyther said:
But, you know, I can't blame them. You could all be thirty-two year old stalkers for all I know~~
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oh well, the truth has to come out someday...

the thirty-two-year old stalkers are a minority. most of us are 86+ year-old stalkers, leaving 20%. when we discovered everyone else was a stalker, we gave up on stalking people here. :P

anyway, I actually have a relatively computer-savvy dad, which is apparently unusual. I also am not generally allowed on the computer on school days. I circumvented that a long time ago, and nobody really bothers to get me off even when I do get on the computer.

my mom, on the other hand, is a pain to deal with. she insists on using an ancient computer and then complaining about the speed, and can't usually open a program without a file associated with it. I outsource those issues, though.
 
Dannichu said:
My mum has very basic computer skills (can just about check her email) and my dad doesn't know how to turn one on (I'd like to physically hurt whoever bought him an iPod for Christmas, because I've spent the last three days installing iTunes and uploading stuff for him because he hasn't got a clue, graaaaah), and ever since I started messing around online when I was about ten, neither of them have cared what sites I go on (though they've never cared about which computer games I play, what films I see, etc., either). I never had a limit on how long I could spend on the computer in a day, but they'd try and get me to go to bed at a reasonable time. Thankfully they've pretty much given that up and I'm free to stay online till the wee hours of the morning. As it should be.

They've also always been cool about me meeting up with people I've met online, which is good of them.
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It is a little scary how similar your family is to mine. Are you sure your sister is not secretly male?
 
Cirrus said:
We used to have AOL, which as you can imagine was the bane of my life when I was a kid. My mum would be able to manage which sites I could go on, would put a pathetic time limit on
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Rofl I had that too :B I only got a time limit on though for staying up till 3am... but I still got round it.
And then when I was 15 I abandoned AOL. Best decision ever made.

Anyways
Both my parents trust me because I'm not stupid anymore (unlike my siblings) and I know what I'm doing :B I mean if I ask to meet up with someone from the tinternets they'll be like "ok then"

My mum knows faaaaaar more about the internet (and anything electrical in general) than my dad... we have that in common lol. It's frustrating watching my dad try to do simple things sometimes. I also showed him firefox and thunderbird and told him how much better they were than AOL but he still uses it :|
 
My mum knows faaaaaar more about the internet (and anything electrical in general) than my dad... we have that in common lol. It's frustrating watching my dad try to do simple things sometimes. I also showed him firefox and thunderbird and told him how much better they were than AOL but he still uses it :|
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it's the other way round with my parents. my dad is pretty good with computers but my mum is just hopeless. in fact, she's generally useless with technology. one time she spent ages complaining that her iPod wouldn't play music; I solved the problem by properly slotting the earphones into the plug. >_>
 
My mother is pretty bad with computers, but she is now taking classes

My dad is the tech savvy one

Anyways, they trusted me, although they hate how I spend so much time on the computer. My dad said that I have an addiction at one point. I proved him wrong by reducing my computer time to an hour or two every day (since my girlfriend lives in Utah, computer is the best way to talk to her, and one of the sites I go on require regular check up, so there was no real way to just pull the plug altogether)

As long as I don't give out too much information, they are fine with it (I have given out my address before though without them knowing, and my photo. Even my dad, who is pretty computer savvy, thinks someone can steal my identity using my photo and my full name >.> Only one here who can do that is Mudkip (I have been so inactive here lately that I have no clue if he changed his name XD), and that is only because me and him look eerily similar o.o;))

Heck, they were even ok with me meeting my girlfriend in real life a few years ago (although they were trying to get me to put it off indefinitely XD), and nowadays, they don't even mind me meeting with a group of furries I met online :D
 
My mam has the basics but my dad needs help opening up a web browser.

Both of them trust me not to give out too much information, the only places I display my hometown are here, Facebook and Bebo, I have my Facebook and Bebo set as only viewable by my friends and I only add people I actually know. Only one person that I know purely over the Internet knows my hometown, and I consider her one of my closest friends.
 
MY RULES FOR HAVING INTERNET ACCESS: no /b/, no porn. Which I'm mostly fine with, so!

My mom, dad, and stepdad are all neeeeeerds. Neeeeeerds I say. I might elaborate at some point but eh.


As far as personal information goes, I try to keep my offline and online identities pretty separate but that's mainly so if anyone googles my actual name, they won't get surskitty anywhere.
 
My parents are soooo strict. They think I'm addicted to the computer, even though it's sorta true, I can't go two days without even checking my emails. So they say I'm not allowed on the computer past dinner. But I always get around this, I sometimes have to lie about needing to type a 4 page essay on a random subject.

My parent also got mad at me for getting an AIM without telling them. Then, my friends persuaded me to get a Facebook account(Now I spend a lot of time there). Imagine the trouble I could get in if my parents found out I got a Facebook last December.

And if they found out I made 3 forum accounts(1 here, 1 on Pokestory, and one on Dragon Cave), I'll be in some serious trouble.

Both my parents are ok with using computers, but compared to them, I'm the biggest computer nerd in my house.
 
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Mah dad wouldn't give a damn about what I do on the web (If I wanted to look at porn I could just grab a porn magazine of a shelf at the nearest bookstore. DUH!) ...But my mom is like....I hate it. I'm not allowed on a computer for anything other that homework and the like. I used to get on about eight hours a day and posted just my first name on Neopets (HOW MANY OF US WERE REGISTERED BACK THEN???...) and my mom freaked. Bye bye computer for me. I found ways around it. I waited 'till they were both gone and...BOOM! Online games with a lot of gore. Unfortunatlely, it opened the game twice, and when I exited out of the game it left one minimized and they found out what I was up to...

But now I can avoid it all together and be all over the web, my DSi and Wii both have Wi-Fi! My mom would freak if she knew I was 1) On forums (For some reason she is afraid of forums...) 2) Had an email (She is afraid I will get spammed or that one of my friends will send me porn. Yes I do have perverted friends!) And 3) Have a Youtube account. My life would be screwed if my mom caught me.

I wouldn't give out more personal info then my online aliasis, my first name and email. I searched myself on the Internet the other day and it says my adress, city, age everything. Personal info is not a good idea! My mom wouldn't let me meet online friends but my dad might. He would probably say it would be good for me to get some friends. (Yeah, I don't have many friends 'cause I'm not a very social guy outside the net)

My dad would be cool w/ me using a computer, my mom wouldn'.....'Till collage. :/
 
surskitty said:
As far as personal information goes, I try to keep my offline and online identities pretty separate but that's mainly so if anyone googles my actual name, they won't get surskitty anywhere.
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See, this is why I'm silly. My name on FB is Dannichu Rundle. XD

On the plus side, though, I don't think googling my actual name returns any results, including my FB page.
 
My parents have never restricted my computer use at all; my dad used to be a programmer, so he's all for me using computers. My mom has been talking about how she should have restricted my computer use to x hours a day for ages, but they never actually did it, and I've told her bluntly that that would have been the absolute worst thing they could have done for me as a teenager. :/
 
I try to avoid letting my IRL stuff and my forum life mix.

Mainly because my friends would probably never talk to me again if they found out I visited Pokemon forums.
 
Also in the "tries to avoid IRL and online lives mixing" boat. I tell my closest friends that I'm Spaekle and all, but in general I try to avoid having random people at school/family members find me online. Mostly because I'm a lot more 'out' about various things online than I am IRL.
 
Haha, I remember my parents used to be pretty uptight about that kind of stuff... They never really set any rules/parental controls, but they'd constantly talk to me about how everyone on the Internet's gonna rape me and whatnot. That paranoia did sort of rub off on me for a while *laugh*

They worried less and less after they found out I talk to people online, though, when I was... 11? (I think I started when I was 9 or 10...) Now I don't think they give a shit, lol =P

Anyway! I figure that maybe it's because of all the talks I got about how you shouldn't give out your details online, but I figure that if I was 9 or 10 and smart enough not to give pedophiles enough details to come and hunt me down, any kid could be; so I guess the best thing to do is telling your kid not to give out personal information, but don't give them the idea that everyone's a stalker? ^^'
 
The problem for me isn't that my mom is scared of me getting raped, but moreso she's scared of me suffering damage to my eyes or my mind from getting too much computer time. She's amazed that I can stay on for as long as I do. I'm always safe with my info, though. Meh.

She should really learn to appreciate technology.
 
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