Parents.

[ImEric12]

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Parents.

I use my "pay-as-you-go" cell phone for all the calls I make, that way we don't get a phone bill. They'd kill me if they knew I was talking on the phone with "INTERNET PEOPLE", because everyone knows that even though it's a girls voice, it's really a 40 year old molester on his way to rape me as I'm talking on the phone with "him."

[Snapps]

Conversation me and my mom had two minutes ago:

"who are you talking to"
"someone I know on the forums"
"*silence*"
"I know, you remember that website and your like why would he put his picture on a website? Thats him"
"ok"
"You know not everyone on the internet is 50 years old"
"whatever"

This shows you my mom doesn't care anymore XD.

[whorlichan]

My parents are weirded out sometimes when I mention online friends. They know I frequent many forums (only lately at this one). They know I play DDR (and sometimes join in). They don't quite understand the point of FFR or Stepmania, but don't comment about it often.

They're extremely strict with my little sister about chatting and stuff (but she is 11.) With me, they trust that I know what I'm doing more than they do, so they don't bug me about it too much.

The only thing they complain about is when I'm on the phone with Tass for too long.

All this will change when I move out (Dec. 20, yay!) and they will have no say in anything.

[justaguy]

my parents don't care who i talk to online because they trust that i'm not going to talk to idiots that intend on raping/killing me XD

[jewpinthethird]

Yes, my mother knows I go to FFR. She just doesnt get the concept of being an "admin."

My mom does know what I listen to in terms of music.

My mom does know that I watch Anime (in fact, she bought me my first Anime Movie Ghost in the Shell for Christmas...though she didnt know that within the first 5 minutes there is nudity, and a guy's head explodes")

My mom DOESNT know during summer I stayed online until 6 in the morning.

She DIDNT know that I also called some fellow FFR members over summer...until she saw the $100+ phone bill with calls to New York, Viriginia, Illinois, and Texas.

[Kilgamayan]

My parents don't really care anymore. It's not like if they did it'd make a difference, what with me living on campus.

Besides, I'm pretty sure I could handle myself if someone was "stalking" me.

[SUSUGAM]

I've seen both ends of the internet chatting thing... ;D from thinking i loved a 27 year old, to falling in love with a 15 year old ^^; i didnt tell my mom about the 27 year old thing till about a month ago, which was years after the fact, she didnt seem to care, because i was over it, she came with me the first time i went to meet the 15 year old (now 17) ^^, and its been almost a year and a half, and i still talk to her for hours a day ont he phone, my dad on the other hand, has never known a single thing about my life, nor anyone ive ever talked to. The best friends of my life have been attained through the internet. It's just a much more confortable atmosphere for me, and i think its pretty damn easy to tell the difference between a teenager, and a 40 year old man pretending to be one.

All in all, my mom knows mostly everything, she's ok with it, but still claims the computer has completely ruined my life, and my social funcionality. She even found a book claiming that the internet stunts social growth. But hey, fuck that, its a different age, computers are the main communication tool for the kiddo's today. And i've been invited to visit/live with at least a dozen people ive met online... all being very sincere, probably because i overdramatize my life. Oh well? ^^

Parents will always be nazi's, if they care.

[Anuj]

my parents don't care who i talk to online because they trust that i'm not going to talk to idiots that intend on raping/killing me XD

Where do you live Hayden? I'm coming over

[Kefit]

My parents stopped caring about anything I do online long ago.

The fact that I have a computer in my room (a room which my parents never enter unless absolutely necessary) means I can do anything I want anyways.

[Moogy]

Re: RE: Parents.

Not only do my parents know, but they know who some of you guys are.

For instance....

Mom: "Jay, who are you talking to"
Jay: "Jursay"
Mom: "Ok"

I hope they know who I am.

If not, remedy this, please.

[RobbyZero]

RE: Re: RE: Parents.

Everyone is all the same to my parents. I mention someones name and they're like "Oh is that the guy you met on the internet?"

I tell them..yeah I meet a lot of people on the internet be more specific =\

[JurseyRider734]

Let's see.. My mom lives in Las Vegas, and my dad lives about 4 hours away in D.C.; nope no real issues here. My parents really don't have any say in what I do, nor is it any of their business; nor do they know. :P

That sucks with the phonebill though Eva, you should get a cellphone with anytime minutes..

Cellphones are great...

It is a cellphone. :P My dad is just the one who pays for it, and he likes to look on the internet at the minutes I use.

[dinnerroll]

I'm not even allowed to have a cellphone.

[Snapps]

Ug, my mom still doesn't like me chatting online with people...EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS THEY ARENT 50 YEARS OLD, only Eva is.

[Squeek]

Here's the time when it changed from caring to not.

When I moved my computer into my room.

That had to be like 6 years ago. I've gone through 3 computers since then. All you need is a lockable door and all your stuff behind it and you're set. I don't need to leave my room for anything besides school and food.

~Squeek

Edit - You also need good excuses for explaining what you are doing that you cannot let them see what's on the monitor (I really don't want them to see my anime or this site, don't ask why) (And I turn off the monitor everytime someone knocks at the door as a reflex now). I've gotten in a really big argument about how it's my computer and my privacy. I bet she assumes I like teh pronz. That sucks worse, I suppose... Eh. My excuses have always been like "I'm talking to (A friend of mine that she really approves of) about some homework" or "I'm writing a paper that's not due until next week" (she loves this one).