I Am Trying to Take a Poll, Please Help?

I'd say no. Besides when would she find time? I have an 8 yr old and lately with school, homework and sports he doesn't even have time to watch t.v let alone keep up with homework. School work is more important than the myspace social life. Seems like all you hear these days on the news is something that has happened with myspace, facebook, or twitter.

My 11 year old step-daughter has one. I have the password and check it sometimes. Keep ni mind though to all the parents that have their kids account passwords - they would very easily have that one as the decoy account for you to look at and have another that they are actually active on.

No way, no way, no way! Too young!

I have a 10 year old and absolutely not. Thats my vote!

Don't do it at eleven years old. Why? I didn't let my daughter get one until she was 13 years old. I monitor it regularly.

My son is 11 and we have not let him have one at this point.

my son was 15 before I let him on, and I have the password.

My daughter will be 11 in August and no, we will not let her have that yet

I have a ten year old - no way! I do not feel a child is old enough to understand the responsibilities and dangers of such a sight. I know many of her friends of cell phones and other gadgets that allow them to interact -- I just don't believe she is at a maturity level for any of those things. If she needs to communicate with someone outside the family, she is welcome to pick up the telephone. This may sound old fashioned - but I used to work in news, and saw way too many sad, and often preventable, stories.

...just my two cents!
S.

My Vote is NO! Theres no need for a child that young to have a page......Heather made a good point, she should be too wrapped up with school work, chores, sports, etc to have time for one anyway. It opens up a whole new world to that you probably don't want to expose her to so young. Stick to how you feel on this one and tell her NO!

We have a 14 yr old daughter and yes she has one and she is very involved with it.

Our key is that I have the signon name and password. I will surprise check it at least weekly and monitor pictures, and it MUST be set to private profile. We are super cautious with pictures because she is involved with cheer and other school organizations and it is a big no no to have a school logo on the site. I have shown her how pictures are copied and pasted so she is very cautious about what she has on her site.

Most of her friends have it as well. Like most of her friends, she has a laptop with free access. I will check on her computer occasionally. She runs with a good group of kids and until we have a reason to police them more heavily than we already do, we trust her to use good judgement.

We are probably one of the more lenient parents around. We give her space, we keep lines of communication wide open and she knows nothing is off limits as to anything she wants to talk about. We don't monitor keystrokes or sites and won't UNLESS she breaks the rules of the house.

I have an 11 year old son, and he doesn't have a myspace, and neither do any of his friends. I would not allow it at this age. I'm a high school teacher, and I hear all about what they share with each other on myspace and I'm horrified. I am impressed with the way one of the previous posters is handling it with her daughter (the one who says her daughter is 99 and has her daughter's password). Fortunately my son doesn't want a myspace, so we don't have to cross that bridge yet, but I'm years away from allowing it. Good luck with your decision.

No! And you need to make a MySpace so you can check to make sure she doesn't end up with one.

I would say no. My space sometimes has people that claim to be someone or an age that they aren't and can be trouble. If they just have to be on something I think facebook is safer,as you know who they are and who their friends are, as they can't get on with out being someones friends and them accepting them. Hard for kids to understand that just because (everyone) is doing it that it makes it o.k. Shes is just too young yet in my opinion.

NO, NO, NO! Don't let her - she's too young!

My teen step sons are not too into yet, but we have already discussed it. The only way they are allowed is if we have all passwords and can look at their page anytime we want. FULL ACCESS! Also, a big plus is to keep your computer in a family room. That way you can always see what is going on. We will never have them in the kids bedrooms. Good luck

My 12 year old has one and so do I. We are each other's 'friends' and her age lists her as 99 - so anyone specifically searching for tween/teen age girls would miss her.

I also have her password, but rarely check - usually just read over her shoulder for a couple of minutes to see what's going on.

Our computer is in the family room; there is no implied privacy at our house, and I trust her completely. If anything in that statement were changed - I might feel differently about her having a myspace. But yes, most of her friends also have a site.

S.

No your not being overprotective the age to open an account is 14. MSPACE brings so many negative images and people into your home. We allowed are daughter an account when she was in 6th grade. We now have it blocked.

If you decide yes - make sure you have a GOOD monitoring software. A product I found is Spector Software & Eblaster. It allows the parents to sign in with special key strokes and a password. Teenagers can't even locate it. It gives you screen shots, allows you to block certain websites, notifies you if certain words are used & provides you with User Ids and passwords.

My kids have a my space but they are in High School. I had a coworker that wouldn't let her daughter have a my space but the daughter went ahead and made one anyway, probably when she was over at a friend's house. I am not telling you this to make you paranoid but maybe if you sit with her while she is on my space or if you know the passwords and all it would be ok. Just some thoughts.

I would say no, not even with you knowing the password. I think its a very bad influence on our children these days.

My child is not at that age yet, but am I too naive to think that you can actually trust a child? Is it not possible to explain the dangers and share the sign-on and password. Maybe have the computer in a common room where it can be supervised. I feel like if you keep something so far from reach it may become more appealing, and they end up signing up and keeping it from you.