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fredericks) wrote2004-05-21 11:53 pm
fredericks) wrote2004-05-21 11:53 pm
Oh yes, I'm wigged the hell out
My two youngest brothers are at that age where puberty has taken full hold. And sex is on the forefront of their minds. How do I know this? because, Lord knows, my brothers don't talk to *me* about that stuff? Web browser address bar. I don't think those kids realize that any page they enter in is *saved*. And...it's wigging the hell out of me. And fucking up my computer (not that I get much time on it, anyway *snort*).
Whatever the hell they're downloading (and then deleting; they're not the sharpest crayons in the box) is clogging the thing that makes my PC go, well, "go". IE has this annoying pop-up maker embedded in it now that goes into affect intermittently, and the pop-ups have no border, so they're impossible to "x" away; you have to refresh the page to make them disappear. Ad-aware has yet to do anything about that fun piece of work, although it has caught oodles and oodles of other nasty bugs in my registry lately.
I mention the out there-ness of the page names I'm finding in the browsers and the constant need to clean out my system to the oldest brother (because he, at least, would have enough common sense to cover his tracks and not download anything) and he goes "Yeah, you should see some of the freaky stuff they look at". And I just gape at him. "Wait...you *see* them doing this and do nothing??" Lots of stammering from his side of the room.
I mean, I'm not going to say what they're doing is wrong. When I was their age I spent a good amount of time sneaking down to my folk's illegal box and watching soft porn when they weren't looking. It's a curiousity thing. As natural as, well, something natural. But the stuff you can find onSkinemax Cinemax and...whatever the hell the name of that other channel was, doesn't compare to the cornucopia of perversion available to them on the web. And so I find myself possibly having to invest in some Nanny webware, because if my folks knew that they were viewing they'd freak out (yeah, the parental units are completely computer naive), *and*, worst of all, I'm going to have to formally sit them down and talk to them about what's out there on the web.
Heh. Most of my annoyance stems from the fact that they're using *my* computer and messing it up royally. I now know why they needed me to pull out my PC in the first place - they fucked theirs up by doing the same thing they're doing now. And the fact that I have to talk to them at all. I think, when I was around their age and we finally had web access, I never really thought about the online porn angle. I think it was the Catholic guilt acting up. That and the fact that we had dial-up at the time, d/ling took forever and a half, and you paid AOL per the hour. The modern generation and the Internet. It's having all sorts of effects on them that could not possibly have been forseen. Makes me want to write another paper on the subject.
Whatever the hell they're downloading (and then deleting; they're not the sharpest crayons in the box) is clogging the thing that makes my PC go, well, "go". IE has this annoying pop-up maker embedded in it now that goes into affect intermittently, and the pop-ups have no border, so they're impossible to "x" away; you have to refresh the page to make them disappear. Ad-aware has yet to do anything about that fun piece of work, although it has caught oodles and oodles of other nasty bugs in my registry lately.
I mention the out there-ness of the page names I'm finding in the browsers and the constant need to clean out my system to the oldest brother (because he, at least, would have enough common sense to cover his tracks and not download anything) and he goes "Yeah, you should see some of the freaky stuff they look at". And I just gape at him. "Wait...you *see* them doing this and do nothing??" Lots of stammering from his side of the room.
I mean, I'm not going to say what they're doing is wrong. When I was their age I spent a good amount of time sneaking down to my folk's illegal box and watching soft porn when they weren't looking. It's a curiousity thing. As natural as, well, something natural. But the stuff you can find on
Heh. Most of my annoyance stems from the fact that they're using *my* computer and messing it up royally. I now know why they needed me to pull out my PC in the first place - they fucked theirs up by doing the same thing they're doing now. And the fact that I have to talk to them at all. I think, when I was around their age and we finally had web access, I never really thought about the online porn angle. I think it was the Catholic guilt acting up. That and the fact that we had dial-up at the time, d/ling took forever and a half, and you paid AOL per the hour. The modern generation and the Internet. It's having all sorts of effects on them that could not possibly have been forseen. Makes me want to write another paper on the subject.
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And I just feel wrong about blocking all access. *sigh* I'm trying to think of them as functioning adults and I keep forgetting that they're kids. And in a different place than I was when I was their age. Or not. I'm trying to figure out what I would do in their place, if I had the resources. Probably about the same.
No access it is.
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Oh, and I'm so shutting up right now. I'm still lvid at my sister. SO I'm projecting a bit, sorry.
Read your post
And, on your comments - they make total sense. I'm planning on upgrading to XP Home and then restricting them. And then I'm going to tell them not to use Kazaa to d/l anything. And that I *know* what they're d/ling. Without being specific. Put the fear of
KinneyGod in them. *grin*Your icon fit very well, btw. lol