are your parents concerned that you speak to people online?

[Catchy]

I thought I'd make a thread about this because my mum can't stop banging on about it whenever I'm on skype to [@]@Red[/@] [@]@Kellie[/@] [@]@Kyle[/@] or [@]@Richie[/@]

She always bursts in my door "WHO ARE YOU SPEAKIN TO" blahblah and I try to explain the whole 'habbo friends' thing but she doesn't have a clue and she's always going on about how I need to be careful of paedophiles blahblahblah I would understand if I was 12 years old but I'm 19 on friday fgs lmfao I keep saying I think I've passed the age mark for paedophiles but yeah. If she is fully serious I don't even know lmao...

Do your parents do asimilarthing or what?

[Richie]

Your mother thinks I'm a paedophile? definitely reporting her for abusing you now.

[Catchy]

Your mother thinks I'm a paedophile? definitely reporting her for abusing you now.

She probs thinks you all are and that you're part of a top secret paedophile ring or somet LMFAO u know what she is like!

[Richie]

She probs thinks you all are and that you're part of a top secret paedophile ring or somet LMFAO u know what she is like!


She just wants you to herself

*Make me coffee*
*Sleep on thismattresswithout a bed frame*
*Cook me dinner now*


Silly peasant

---------- Post added 15-02-2012 at 12:12 PM ----------

oh and why did u change ur name? anytime i post it looks like catzsy im probs seeing things lalala

[Red]

LMAO ur mum is a geg. My mum will speak to anyone and when I tell her about my online friends, she's always like why don't you go and meet them so she doesn't care.

[MKR&*42]

My mum doesn't care no, lmfao. She doesn't even care that I've caught my 9 yr old sister on a site where she was chatting people online >;/// I'm concerned about that but she isn't.

[Catchy]

My mum doesn't care no, lmfao. She doesn't even care that I've caught my 9 yr old sister on a site where she was chatting people online >;/// I'm concerned about that but she isn't.


lmfao wth what site?!

[MKR&*42]

lmfao wth what site?!

I don't quite know :P - If I did I would have blocked her from it. I only managed to catch a quick glance before she pushed me out the way :'{.

[Vause]

Well i'm almost 21, so she knows i'm smart enough to be careful. Plus i started using habbo at the age of 12, like 8 years ago now. so she's always been okay with it.

[Catchy]

Well i'm almost 21, so she knows i'm smart enough to be careful. Plus i started using habbo at the age of 12, like 8 years ago now. so she's always been okay with it.

yeah my mum knows i used to play it when i was younger now she's like oh you back on that silly thing HARRIBO HOTEL OR WHATEVER..X

[Kellie]

ahaha awhh bless your mum, Richie is the paedophile though so.. ;)

My parents are fine with it like my mum talks to Richie and that ahaa

[beth]

they don't really know. dated someone off the internet (trolololol) like irl for 3 years though so i think they're pretty chill.

[dirrty]

lol, no. i'm old enough to ~be responsible and even when i was younger, my parents were never concerned because they knew that i wasn't an idiot (which is debatable).

[Becca]

they don't really care to be honest, they know i'm not stupid enough to go meeting 20 years old or anything.
and i've watchd the film trusted so i know what to expect.. ;)

[=Lizzy]

i only talk to people i know and my mum doesnt seem to mind, she used to talk to [@]@Kellie[/@] which was strange but whatever.

[FlyingJesus]

Well I don't tend to go tell my mum what exciting news .:.:SxCgUrL69:.:. had when she comes home but if anything does come up then generally Sam and Bethie are friends from my first school who moved away to Birmingham and don't think anyone else has ever been mentioned irl tbh

[wiktoria]

my mum questioned me about [@]@Fudge[/@] and if he really was a 14 year old boy coz he sounds older(lmao remember that:|) but that was only one time so idk she doesn't mind anymore.

[J0SH]

I don't tell them but yeah I talk to a lot of people on the internet, I don't see why they should be concerned.

[wixard]

no my mum hasn't a clue
she thinks when i'm on skype i'm talking to my real life friends

[beth]

Well I don't tend to go tell my mum what exciting news .:.:SxCgUrL69:.:. had when she comes home but if anything does come up then generally Sam and Bethie are friends from my first school who moved away to Birmingham and don't think anyone else has ever been mentioned irl tbh

yeah yr someone i met on holiday when i was 14 *+* hands in the air for gr8 liezzz.

[buttons]

tom is my gay friend.... lmao cause he is the only one i text and apparently if i text a boy we are ******* so i'm like "it's fine he's more likely to fancy your boyfriend". sorry tom........


it's weird cause i've met quite a few people on facebook that i have mutual friends with then i've met up with them irl. it's not much different to me than meeting people that i've known for a while on habbo/tumblr. i met someone off habbo when i was 14 but i said he was from cadets lol cause he didn't live far away. mum didn't mind me going to a meet up last year with people i'd only known for a few months from tumblr but i think that was cause it was in town, don't think she'd be too pleased with me going out of scotland or even a few hours away just to meet someone from the internet. if im talking to someone on skype i just say they're people from the internet n she doesn't question it but when i was younger i wasn't allowed to talk to anyone and SHE BLOCKED THE AOL CHAT ROOMS. I ******* LOVED THOSE CHAT ROOMS. :(

[FlyingJesus]

Oh yeah my ex that I was with when I was 17 is someone I'd originally met on Habbo lol forgot about her, not sure how I explained her to my parents maybe I just told them the truth back then and Jen why you trying to cover up our love

[xxMATTGxx]

Nope, can't say they have expressed any concerns with who I talk to on the internet. My mum has spoken to a few people on skype before so yeah.

[Conspiracy.]

LOL why would a pedophile be interested in a 19 year old? :L

My parents don't care. I'm 20 so it's not like a pedophile will "groom" me or anything, LOL. I used to talk to this girl Tara online a lot, I told my dad about her and he even said he would drive me up to her house if I wanted to see her.

Has anyone seen Hard Candy? This thread reminded me of it :P

[Catchy]

LOL why would a pedophile be interested in a 19 year old? :L

My parents don't care. I'm 20 so it's not like a pedophile will "groom" me or anything, LOL. I used to talk to this girl Tara online a lot, I told my dad about her and he even said he would drive me up to her house if I wanted to see her.

Has anyone seen Hard Candy? This thread reminded me of it :P


lmao that's what i tell her and omg yes such a good film!!

[jasey]

I used to Skype with my English Habbo friends but I would get teased for my accent. Still, it was all in good fun. When I still lived at home my mum would certainly be questioning who I was speaking to when I was a lot younger (maybe fifteen or sixteen) but now it's really none of her business as I am twenty-one.

[Jssy]

My mum is a bit. Jazz and Jas and everyone can vouch for it haha. When I'm on skype with them she used to be like who are you talking to and I'd say friends haha and she'd say which friends, argh.

[Samantha]

I am not really sure, I think they are more concerned when I dated someone online, as we had a fiasco where my sister dated someone and he put a virus in her laptop and hacked her so they are pretty narked that way. However, they didn't seem too mad when I met someone online and didn't tell them even though my Mum had sussed I had a boyfriend and I met him blah blah. My Dad is more fussed than my Mum, my Mum would rather come upto the webcam or skype and just look and then burst into song trying to embarrass me.

[Neversoft]

It's just a myth these days that the internet is full of pedophiles. I can understand people being paranoid about that kind of thing back in 2004, but if anyone is still banging on about it these days they clearly don't use the internet much. Sure, there are some dodgy fellows, probably a lot in fact, but most of the people you are going to meet or speak to on the internet are going to be genuine, ordinary people.

My parents have never really asked or delved into what I do online. Even when I played Habbo and RuneScape back in the day, they asked hardly anything about them. They knew communication with others was a huge part of the game(s), but I think their mentality was probably something like "well my child is playing this game, so must many others' children, there's no harm here". They also probably assumed I was smart enough not to actually meet any of the people I spoke to online. I guess they were half right on that one. I've met people in real life after knowing them online, but only people I have grown close to or know will bring me no harm. If I actually told them I had met people from the internet, I still don't think they would worry too much. They know and expect me to take care of myself, I think.

[Robbie]

my parents know and are fine. i had [@]@PaulMacC[/@] and [@]@RyRy[/@] sleeping in my room a couple of months back lol. ryan came hopping in the living room in just a sleeping bag while my parents were sat here.

[Kasabian]

Dad hasn't got a problem with it, he knows I've used the internet and talk to people, and have done since 2005.

[jasey]

I think that in this decade we have been subjected to enough 'pedo awareness' that most kids are too smart to get caught up in bad things. Granted, there are exceptions and incidents where this doesn't hold true but parents seem to be living in a prior age.

[Catchy]

I think my mum knows I have met people off the internet I'm sure she does that's why I find it so strange her recently going on about it, she hasn't bothered lately it was more so a few days ago she can't say *REMOVED* anyway she met her bf on a dating site lmao

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[Futz]

My mom used to ask me where I knew certain online friends from and I'd come up with an excuse but I guess as I've gotten older she doesn't care anymore.

[dbgtz]

It's just a myth these days that the internet is full of pedophiles. I can understand people being paranoid about that kind of thing back in 2004, but if anyone is still banging on about it these days they clearly don't use the internet much. Sure, there are some dodgy fellows, probably a lot in fact, but most of the people you are going to meet or speak to on the internet are going to be genuine, ordinary people.

My parents have never really asked or delved into what I do online. Even when I played Habbo and RuneScape back in the day, they asked hardly anything about them. They knew communication with others was a huge part of the game(s), but I think their mentality was probably something like "well my child is playing this game, so must many others' children, there's no harm here". They also probably assumed I was smart enough not to actually meet any of the people I spoke to online. I guess they were half right on that one. I've met people in real life after knowing them online, but only people I have grown close to or know will bring me no harm. If I actually told them I had met people from the internet, I still don't think they would worry too much. They know and expect me to take care of myself, I think.

I think the few people who it had affected in any way probably got into the mentality like your mums that because it happened to them, it must be happening to a lot of people.

Anyway my dad used to be a bit concerned but I think when he realised I was more aware then he was that he stopped caring so much, at least expressing it. I'm sure sometimes he'd prefer I didn't but meh. Though it would be interesting to see his views to if I ever met some people from the net in real life, though if I do I shall not be telling him as he would have a massive rant at me most likely.

[Neversoft]

I think the few people who it had affected in any way probably got into the mentality like your mums that because it happened to them, it must be happening to a lot of people.

Anyway my dad used to be a bit concerned but I think when he realised I was more aware then he was that he stopped caring so much, at least expressing it. I'm sure sometimes he'd prefer I didn't but meh. Though it would be interesting to see his views to if I ever met some people from the net in real life, though if I do I shall not be telling him as he would have a massive rant at me most likely.

wot u sayin bout my mum?????

[FlyingJesus]

SMACK HIM ONE

[Inseriousity.]

Lol nope, which thank god for that cos they'd be like :O:O:O:O:O:O if they could see my conversations with some people! Think there's two reasons, I'm 19 so they know I'm not naive and I'm a boy and I think it's just like the "get in there son"/"omg you ****" mentality. My sister who's 15 was talking to a boy and my dad can somehow check her computer from his own and found out today that it actually flags up when she's been saying inappropriate stuff. She's the little baby of the house so yeah they're concerned about her but not about me. Very unfair but I am breathing a sigh of relief :P

[Shar]

my parents dont know that i do lollll

[Catchy]

Lol nope, which thank god for that cos they'd be like :O:O:O:O:O:O if they could see my conversations with some people! Think there's two reasons, I'm 19 so they know I'm not naive and I'm a boy and I think it's just like the "get in there son"/"omg you ****" mentality. My sister who's 15 was talking to a boy and my dad can somehow check her computer from his own and found out today that it actually flags up when she's been saying inappropriate stuff. She's the little baby of the house so yeah they're concerned about her but not about me. Very unfair but I am breathing a sigh of relief :P


Lmao oh dear @ your sis. I was once reading my sis's chat logs cause I'm a nosey **** she's 14 and there were all these boys like mmm go on cam ;) etc and she would just be like no **** off *blocks* lmao!

[geo]

My mum's forever asking me who I'm skyping to and I just say it's just a school friend. I'll probably get round to telling her one day. She doesn't really understand much about the internet and thinks that if I don't know them in real life, then they must be a pedo.

[Gibs960]

My dad was in the police and I tell my dad if I think somethin dodgy is going on and he tells me what he thinks of it. Most of the time he's like "well, from what they've said they sound a bit dodgy askin for your age and where you live and stuff", he's good to have around ;)

[PaulMacC]

my parents know and are fine. i had [@]@PaulMacC[/@] and [@]@RyRy[/@] sleeping in my room a couple of months back lol. ryan came hopping in the living room in just a sleeping bag while my parents were sat here.
Haha that was ******* jokes. He was fully naked too.

On topic here - I talked to a lot of people online before I came to Uni, like 2-3 months before. Some of them are my best friends now even at Uni and w/o speaking online that probably wouldn't have happened.

[Narnat,]

I think they use to be when I was a little bit younger but nah not anymore.

[Oleh]

My mum once asked me about this 76 year old man I was talking to, all I wanted to do was play some yahoo pool with somebody I could converse with :( Made me delete him, I was 10 btw.

[Chawk]

Nope, To be honest - I'm old enough for them to now, stop caring =) haha, And I love the freedom of them being like "Nadia you can do whatever you want babe" I've met so many lovely people this way!!

[Cerys]

Umm.. I'm only 13(almost14) so my mum still freaks out about every little thing i do o.o

When I asked my mum if I could meet this dude from online she started raging and said he was a creep or something
But when I asked my dad he was like, ye sure go ahead ill take you there nd you can chill in blackpool pleasurebeach with him

[Jurv]

I don't think my mum has a problem with it because she knows I'm not going to do anything stupid. I've been speaking to people online for years now and probably started using skype around a year ago. I sometimes try to hide the fact that they're online friends if she asks though, haha.

[Nikki]

My parents don't have a clue, sometimes if im smiling at my laptop they are like "who you smiling at?" but thats it really, they trust me.

[Sharon]

errrrr my mum is more concerned by how old they are, aka in real life people speaking on facebook but yeah i don't think she cares that i'm on habbo (lol she knows...x) ALTHOUGH SAYING THAT SHE WENT THROUGH MY FACEBOOK INBOXES LOL BUT DON'T WORRY I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING I SHOULDN'T...the person did though :| she gave me this lecture on speaking to such people.

[Mikey]

When I first joined Habbo and all that in 2004 yeah my mum was a bit iffy but now she accepts it. She know's that i'm not stupid and knows that I know the risks and stuff. :)

[e5]

Mine never ask

[RyRy]

Haha that was ******* jokes. He was fully naked too.

On topic here - I talked to a lot of people online before I came to Uni, like 2-3 months before. Some of them are my best friends now even at Uni and w/o speaking online that probably wouldn't have happened.

Lol [@]@robbie[/@] [@]@PaulMacC[/@] I was legit cool walking into that room with a sleeping bag on. If Robbie's sister was there, she'd have jumped on me. :-)

OT my parents aren't too arsed as long as im 20, old enough to make my own decisions and mistakes. But they're fully aware I do it.

[BlueEyedSarah]

No my mum isn't but my boyfriend is lol.

[JennaDoll]

My mom doesn't care or she doesn't know, but either way it's cool with her. But my older brother bombards me with questions about who I chat with online, it's sooo annoying!

[Eric]

nope. they don't care

[Chris]

Nahh they're not concerned at all! They were more wary when I was younger though.

[Empired]

My mum's OK with it because when I was 11 I kinda lied and told her Habbo was "like club penguin but for slightly older people" and she used to watch my brother go on club penguin all the time when he was little and she loved it so she just drank it all in.. woo

[Jazz]

my mm has a huge problem with me online, she thinks everyones out to get me, so to speak.
my dad doesnt seem to care about it, as long as im not up later chatting away :-P

[Richie]

my mam sorta did years ago. I didn't post my first pic online till i was like 16/17 lol. Nowadays i do be doing the creeping so its all gd.