Do you think it is ok for young kids to joing social networking sites ?

kids should not join social network sites and even if they join to keep in touch with friends or family then their chats and contacts should be monitored by parents or guardians. most kids are unaware of the consequences and they become pally with starngers who are not good company. they engage in internet games etc. too. all this hampers their education as well as they get spoilt.

no i dont agree with... 10 years too young to get into social networking sites...most of the networking sites tells in the registration step itself tht u shud be more than 18. tht has to be folowed strictly....

as long as the parnets have all thier passwords, and check what they are doing on there. if the kids dont like that idea or handle their parents are going to check up on them, then no..

Hi, no I don't agree with that. Young children get addicted more to such sites and also prone to harassment and maybe some scammer will get at them. Since they are young they don't know that there are people out there prying to find someone gullible and that does not know all and does not get suspicious of what harm can be done. We know that we need to be aware of people we don't know and with the internet they are more prone to be trapped.Some time ago here we had a case where the person the girl was chatting with was older but known by the family since he worked with her father. They thought that he was a sort of saint as he was always quiet at work. Later it resulted that he was asking her for her naked photos which she gave him as he threaten to tell her father what she did and of course she was afraid of that but all came out in the long run when she could not stand it any more.

Myself I allowed my daughters to join in the social networks after they turned a certain age of 12 or more. Depended on how they were online as well. My daughters were put on the computer before they were even in kindergarten. I felt then it was necessary for them to learn this technology for it wasn't going away. Like the phone or television it keeps growing. Now children need to know how to be on computers when they enter school. I went with my grand daughter one day to see how her daycare was going, preschool daycare. What do I see first and she runs right to are three computers with children's games running on them. I see nothing wrong with that at all. As far as being online, they need to learn how it works, how easily it is to gain virus's, trojans, as well as preditors before they are able to be online by themselves without supervision.