Erin has a Facebook account. Not very many people DON’T have Facebook accounts these days. I watch her account fairly closely to make sure that she minds her manners and that her friends do the same.
However, my phone started ringing this afternoon at about 4:45 p.m. from parents calling about a photo that was posted. It was pornography and my daughter was tagged in the picture.
It seems like Erin accepted a friend request from a “girl” who was also friends with 20 other of her friends. She accepted it thinking, “Oh. She must go to my high school.” About three days later the photo appeared. I won’t say what it was and I know the definition of “obscene” is based on how a local community defines it. But I assure you, no matter what community you live in – even by the loosest standards – that community would say, “Oh heck no. That is obscene!”
Thankfully I had my daughter’s password so went in to the account, reported Hillary C. (email me if you want to know her full name) to the administrators at Facebook, untagged my daughter’s picture, and unfriended her. I had to do all that in order to remove it from everyone’s pages… from her grandparents, our family friends, aunts, uncles, cousins… and all 546 friends she has.
I think it’s time she cleans up her friend list. Or I’ll be doing it for her. Keep an eye on your child’s accounts, parents. Bad things happen to good people.
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