[originaltext]M: Alright, so talk to me about different age groups and how much

M: Alright, so talk to me about different age groups and how much monitoring parents should be doing with their kids and these types of pages.
W: I think you start that with talk about who your kid is. There are some kids that are really really good and really easy and all you have to do is just check it once in a while. But other kids are squally and impulsive and you don’t trust their judgment. Well, I would sit down and say, um, I’m paying for the Internet, what your site is on there is my site, it will embarrass me. I am going to be checking it frequently and randomly.
M: Yeah, and parents should absolutely have the passwords, they should be able to get in no matter what.
W: Or there is no site, I mean it’s just very clear. I am paying for it, the password is mine too.
M: Does the parent make the child responsible for everything on the site? In other words, you know, a friend might put something on my child’s Facebook account or MySpace page. So then is my child responsible for that?
W: Absolutely, and that’s the rule I use with my kid clients. It is that I don’t care what kind of language your friends are using, if it’s on there and it’s bad language, you are responsible. You either have to block them or you lose the site. And your language has to be very appropriate because people will judge you by who you associate with.
M: And as these kids get older, they get to be of college age to at least college application age, and of job age, these accounts, these pages can come back to haunt them.
W: They are public, because, um, you know, the college admissions councils are now using them for grad school, and also employers, their Human Resource departments are always going to look. So what I tell people to do is if you have to have an account, use your first name as your first name, your middle name as your last name, very difficult for other people to find out.
M: But again, the most important thing, it’s not private. If you put it on the Internet in any way, shape or form, it’s not private.
W: It’s not private. And you wouldn’t let your kid to go down to the dark alley without supervision. Don’t let them go into the dark alley of the Internet without supervision.
M: Ruth Peters, well said. Thanks very much.
W: Thank you, Matt!
Questions 6 to 10 are based on what you have just heard.
6. What should be considered when deciding the way of supervision over the child?
7. What is not a suitable thing for parents to do?
8. What should the children do to ensure the possession of their sites?
9. Who might view children’s online photos and webpages as they grow up?
10. What does Ruth suggest people do when registering an account online?