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@Cobaltasaurus said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:

@Ghost It's honestly only the known troll that is Carex.

I don't know why you guys keep saying I'm trolling. I'm making a serious point. There is nothing wrong with telling your kids not to give out their information online or meet with people from the internet but micro-managing their every action online is still bad parenting.

Telling your kids they should never do or say anything you might disapprove of because you might snoop on them and catch them is just terrible.

What should be a learning experience becomes something they need to be secretive about because what they think is acceptable might not be too you.

Setting clear boundaries about RL information is fine but telling them you are going to be watching them and judging them for what they do online is creepy and stalky.

You might think that your position as a parent is perfectly reasonable because the things you do not approve of are legitimately bad but here's the problem: Children can't read your mind.

You are putting them in a situation where they have to constantly guess "Will this get me in trouble? Am I allowed to talk about this? Will someone find out? Should I take that risk?"

By policing your child's internet activities you make yourself the bad-guy they have to be afraid of instead of the teacher they can come to with questions.
That's my point.

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