Friends at SRGMP section - Page 2

Friends, All the credit here goes to Priyaji 👏 👏 👏

I brought this over with an ulterior motive, A few weeks ago, I had raised this, not b'cos I was concerned about someone's studies getting affected, but for the stated reason of Priyaji's post. The studies is not my business. I know how I felt when someone told me I needed to study 😉

But our problem(I mean US asians), we tend to think this does not happen to us, this does not happen here. This does not happen in my community. I have seen many a things happen here in the US, have seen this happen in India and our people still keep saying this does not happen to us, this does not happen in our community. People just do not take it seriously only one of their near/dear one is involved

My question always has been are you willing to risk your child just b'cos your beleif? I feel passionately about this topic, just for the risk involved here, that is it.

sorry about the long bhashan, DM ki adat ho gayi hai, Manish you gotta know what you are missing 😉

Thanks Jaado Ji n Priya for your point of view...

By experince I have found there is nothing wrong in guiding Kids in IF.. If I said something to Sunny, he always obeyed like a good boy and wl do it again n again... if they know you are thier well wisher they wl listen to you.. 😊 more than adults do 😃

thanx a lot Priya and also sareg for posting the topic here. thanx jaadoo bhai too for yur inputs. pl this is a request to all members be it kids or elders dnt divulge yur personal information. it is actually very risky.

Originally posted by: Jaadoogar

It is more painful if somebody are being called as moral police, and see in the story how a moral police saves life of a kid. Everybody take care and think about himself/herself but very few people think about other. We all support our friends here in forum without thinking about the consequences and issues. After seeing how the elders are being treated here I stopped talking sense in forum but today Priya's thread compelled me to write sensible stuff.

myself with some of the other dev Team members are actually worried here as these very moral police here hav been found to ask personal info from the members. that is a matter of real concern now for us especially after reading Priya's (Gauri"s) post. we hav been provided with pm's where personal information like residential address and ph. nos. hav been asked to the members.

Jadoo ji, thanks for the reply and appreciate it.

I agree it is easiest to deny 😊 and toughest to accept and work on it.

In fact, I support your views that parents must protect their children's forays on the internet or must at least supervise it. I agree with you that many parents do not understand the pitfall of the internet and often ASSUME all is safe.

I do recollect someone had posted here that I do not have children, so I cannot understand the agony of a Mother or a parent and hence I was being blase about the whole thing. I had kept quiet then, but since the topic is up again, I would like to repeat that I do not have to be a mother to understand the pitfalls a child faces on the net. I have seven neices and nephews. Two of them, one of 11 and another 9 do go on the net. Particularly the nephew who is 9. He had unfettered access to the net, which I wasnt aware of. His parents blindly assumed that he would only play games and not do anything else, without realising that it isnt as simple as that. That boy got himself an email id and was sending out simple emails to his friends etc. One evening when I was there, he asked me to show him something which I realised that there were no firewalls or anything in place. I had to explain to my bro and bhabhi (who despite being educated, assumed things are fine). Despite that, they did not quite comprehend the whole thing. I called my nephew and explained things to him and I was quite surprised to find that his school teacher had taken the initiative to explain a few basics to them, which included tips on not divulging personal information, not accessing certain sites etc. And that lil boy was able to explain to his parents why his teacher told him not to do some things.

Personally, I can only request all parents to take the first step, learn things before exposing your child to it. As a Mother, when your baby is small, dont you blow on the hot milk, test the temparature to see if the milk is fine for your lil baby, before you feed it to him/ her. Internet is also an unexplored thing for you and your baby. You should experience it first, test it, check out whether it is suitable for your child and then give access to them. No two children are alike and only a parent can judge the true worth of their child. Some at 11 may be more intelligent than a mature adult of 55. So if the parents checks it out and then allows the child to venture in, it would be best for the child.

And yes, the child MUST be aware of the pitfalls they can face or encounter, before they jump in with full gusto. Innocent minds dont spot mischief as easily as a experienced eye.

OMG r u serious??? Thank god that he was a police officer!!! but i am really sad for the one that got murdered... Hope none of that happens here on IF...but plz refrain yourselves from sharing ur personal info!

thanks for posting it Priyadi, and Sareg

Originally posted by: 2smart4u

but plz refrain yourselves from sharing ur personal info!

Yes..please do not share personal info like phone number, city, neighbourhood, school name, university name etc.

More important, newbie se shuru karkey right upto Rockerz.age group 12 se shuru hokey right upto 75 years...PLEASE DO NOT ASK ANOTHER MEMBER SUCH PERSONAL DETAILS LIKE PHONE NUMBER HOUSE ADDRESS ETC.

Originally posted by: egghatcher

THERE IS ONE SUREFIRE WAY TO CIRCUMVENT THIS ANGST FOR THE IFDEVTEAM
CHARGE A NOMINAL AMOUNT FOR SUBSCRIPTION
ILL BE THE FIRST OR AMONGST THE FIRST TO CONTRIBUTE IF CALLED UPON
THIS WILL OBVIATE GHOST SIGNININGS
AND WILL CREATE A BONAFIDE RECORD OF MEMBERS
THE ONLY WAY ONE CAN SUBSCRIBE IS WITH A CREDIT CARD ( OR IN MY CASE WITH DHAKKA BANK CHEQUE 😛 )
THUS PARENTS HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILD PRODIGYS ON HERE..
IT MAY BE A NOMINAL AMOUNT LIKE A HALF DOLLAR A MONTH EVEN BUT IT WOULD COME INTO THE IF EXCHEQUER THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS .......THUS ENSURING BONAFIDE MEMBERSHIP PROCEDURE.... AND .........THIS SHOULD BE UTILISED TO PAYING AN HONORARIUM TO THE HARD WORKING TEAM OF MODS VIEBIES COOLBIES ( HOTBIES LIKE ME TOO WINK WINK 😉 FOR MY SUGGESTION IF U WILL 😛 ) FOR THE INVALUABLE TIME THEY GIVE ON HERE....
I HAVENT WORKED OUT THE DYNAMICS YET BUT I AM SURE THIS IS POSSIBLE ..
THEN ID LIKE TO SEE HOW THESE BOZOS DARE TO COME ON HERE WHILE THEIR PARENTS ARE SOZZLING ELSEWHERE.. 😉

Andaji... kyun hum bechaare gareebon ko yahan se dhakke maar ke nikalne ki koshish kar rahe ho. Part of the point was, this forum is free ... as in free of charge. 😉

Might I suggest the whole enter your date of birth bit be taken out of the profile if we are so concerned about exposing age, location, etc..

My views on the concept of age limitation are a bit "set in stone" but I do see the point that IF provides a safer forum for the young ones to be involved in. Of course, it still appals me that the younger generation is allowed such free access to the internet, often without proper education or even parental knowledge. 😕

But yes, divulging personal information with any and all is dangerous. Be wary of even those you "know"... because you only know what they choose to tell you and that could all be lies. 😕

We all know the danger of online ID reveal. THe problem is young kid take themselves as smartest and go with attitude that nothing bad can happen. But as we avoid revealing our ID, the other person should too. If any one is trying to be overfriendly and trying to get info by giving her /his info..that is dangerous too. How can you trust a virtual person. We as grown up can make mistake too. But we should never expect that on line person should give you all right facts and we should also not give that.

Hope our teenagers learn from others experiences. 😛