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Posted: 29 July 2006 at 7:35pm | IP Logged

    I know how worrying it can be . My 14 year old would spend all day on msn if we let her. The computer she uses is in our main family room so we can see what she is up to, but usually she closes the windows up when she hears us coming or if I sit and watch her.

     A couple of weeks ago after I saw an article on gmtv I thought I would try something. I managed to log into ebo under a false name and found out all my daughters contacts.Luckily I knew most of them,but the thing they were telling each other were shocking and to think anyone can access this info. DD doesn't know I managed to get into her account. I suppose it was an invasion of her privacy but I do worry about what she gets up to on the computer. I trust her and hope she is sensible enough not to do or say anything online that will harm her or her friends.

   You did the right thing and I hope your step daughters so called friend doesn't set her up again. Unfortunately we can't see what other kids are up to online .

Posted: 29 July 2006 at 7:54pm | IP Logged

   My dd has a few web pages with her photos on. I know which photos she has used and to most people they are fairly innocent ( but of course you never know) At present I don't want to stop her and everyone is doing it and at least I know where she is. I know she hasn't put where she lives etc onto her sites.

   I wasn't aware that I could get her sites closed down but that it def worth knowing incase we have any probs.

    It does seem like her friends are causing her a lot of probs and I really hope you get it sorted.