Comments on: New Moon Girls Offers Social Networking To Tweens

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By: Craig at Balanced Immune Health

Craig at Balanced Immune Health — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:01:07 +0000

Yes, Lacey, balance is the key. I suppose TV, video games and other home “entertainment” vehicles have been just as easily overused as a social networking site. Parents, make sure you stay on top this.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:33:10 +0000

I’m one of the adult moderators for NewMoonGirls.com, and I understand where you’re coming from. While we certainly don’t want kids (or adults, for that matter!) to be in front of the computer all the time, I’m part of the generation that remembers life before the internet but who has also had it for a significant portion of my life (I went online for the first time at age 15). And as a young girl growing up in a rural area, I felt incredibly lonely and isolated. The tween and teen years are hard; we have no intention of "replacing" real-world interaction with computers, but the internet does provide a forum for girls to connect who wouldn’t connect otherwise, and to have conversations that might be just too scary or sensitive to work up the courage to have in real life. I think parental involvement with kids and the internet is key, but as someone who both appreciates limits on ‘net time AND knows how important it is that girls not feel alone, I think balance is possible and worth striving for.

By: Craig at Balanced Immune Health

Craig at Balanced Immune Health — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:34:56 +0000

I don’t know. I guess I’m too old school, but shouldn’t young girls be playing with each other, not isolated in front of that dang computer screen with yet another social media site? My teen daughters spend hours on their Facebook pages and texting every waking hour. I don’t like this trend. I know I’m swimming upstream on this one, but we are in store for some kind of social development abnormality that I don’t think we can yet identify.