Saturday I got a series of 2 unusual text messages. The first text message was something along the lines of, “Welcome to Game Help Online, please call 1-800-etc-etc. for help, a $19.99 monthly fee will be charged to your phone bill.” And the second text message gave me a password.
Now not being 1)online right then, or 2)Having any intrest in video games it didn’t take me more than a minute or 2 to figure out how this had happened. I called Matt immediately, as C was with him. I told him what the messages said, and asked him if C was online. He said that he was, and he would take care of it.
Now, I’m not really upset at Christian for this. It will hopefully be taken care of very easily. But I am a little disturbed that neither Matt nor his fiance was paying attention to what our EIGHT YEAR OLD SON was doing online. That’s all taken care of though. And I am disturbed that all Christian had to do was give them a phone number to subscribe to something! He didn’t even know he was subscribing to something. He didn’t give them a name, email address or anything. Just a ten digit phone number. And I thought it was a smart thing for him to have my number memorized! Ha!
So this morning we are making the now hour long commute to the sitter, and Christian says to me, “Mom, can I have a MySpace page?” What the fuck?!? Are you kidding me? My jaw dropped. I was expecting, “Mom, can i have a new video game?” or “Mom, can I have a piece of gum?” I would have actually been better prepared for, “Mom can I have a spaceship flown by hot pink monkeys?” But a MySpace page?!? I didn’t even think he knew what MySpace was! Apparently I am incredibly naive. I somehow was able to spit out, “WHY?” He told me he wants to play “Mobsters,” which is some new application that’s making its way around MySpace, and that apparently his dad plays.
Oh good lord! Christian asked why he couldn’t have a MySpace, and I told him he was too young. He asked how old he had to be. At that moment I really wanted to tell him 25, but instead told him 15.
Do your kids have a MySpace page? What do you think the appropriate age is?
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