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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:15 pm
I know it long, but it's worth the read!! http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22904573&page=1For the lazy, here's the high-lights  People go on to call him a *****, and warn her against this... She heavely defend herself and him... but then on page 17...  ROFL! WTF? Gave me a laugh, hope you enjoy smile Her grandparents are totally awesome! LOL rofl
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:47 pm
I LOVE IT!!!
I did a similar thing to my daughter. I opened a MySpace account, posted a picture of one of my co-workers niece who was drop dead gorgeous. I gave her a fake name, bio, the whole works. Photoshop pictures of the girl with other girls at the beach, skiing, etc. I randomly invited various people I didn't even know to be my friends, when I finally got a 50 friends from across the county I went to my daughter's site and invited her. At first she didn't want to be my friend, then I went to her friends site and invited them, once they joined I went back to my daughter's site and invited her. She accepted. I posted back and forth to my daughter, her friends and my MySpace friends for about a month. One night, I was on at the same time as my daughter. She was posting to my site and I was responding almost instantly. I could hear her in the other room laughing at my jokes and comments. Then I made a comment about what she had worn that day at school. How I liked her hair and her makeup. This started to freak her out. It took her about an hour for her to come to me and tell me that she thinks that her new MySpace friend may not be who she says she is and might be a stalker. I just sat there and listened then gently turned the laptop I was on around for her to see that I was on my site. She looked at me and said you know "mimi, too"?. I said, honey I am MIMI. She couldn't believe it. I told her that I did this to prove a point to her that you never know who you are talking to on the internet. There are a lot of computer savy people out there that know how to manipulate the system and prey on young innocent teenagers and pre-teens like you. She got the point. I told my Administrator what I did and she asked me if I could keep my Myspace Account to monitor the students at our school. I told her that I couldn't in good conscience do that but that I was more than happy to have my daughter come in and share her experience with them and show them my MySpace site. My students really enjoyed this lesson however they also wanted to me to add them to my friend list. I told them I couldn't do that since I was closing my MySpace now that I've proven my point and given them something to think about. I also ordered for each of my students a 2SMRT4U ring to help remind them of the lesson and to remind them to be CyberSmart on the Internet.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:21 pm
mAOri waHIne I LOVE IT!!! I did a similar thing to my daughter. I opened a MySpace account, posted a picture of one of my co-workers niece who was drop dead gorgeous. I gave her a fake name, bio, the whole works. Photoshop pictures of the girl with other girls at the beach, skiing, etc. I randomly invited various people I didn't even know to be my friends, when I finally got a 50 friends from across the county I went to my daughter's site and invited her. At first she didn't want to be my friend, then I went to her friends site and invited them, once they joined I went back to my daughter's site and invited her. She accepted. I posted back and forth to my daughter, her friends and my MySpace friends for about a month. One night, I was on at the same time as my daughter. She was posting to my site and I was responding almost instantly. I could hear her in the other room laughing at my jokes and comments. Then I made a comment about what she had worn that day at school. How I liked her hair and her makeup. This started to freak her out. It took her about an hour for her to come to me and tell me that she thinks that her new MySpace friend may not be who she says she is and might be a stalker. I just sat there and listened then gently turned the laptop I was on around for her to see that I was on my site. She looked at me and said you know "mimi, too"?. I said, honey I am MIMI. She couldn't believe it. I told her that I did this to prove a point to her that you never know who you are talking to on the internet. There are a lot of computer savy people out there that know how to manipulate the system and prey on young innocent teenagers and pre-teens like you. She got the point. I told my Administrator what I did and she asked me if I could keep my Myspace Account to monitor the students at our school. I told her that I couldn't in good conscience do that but that I was more than happy to have my daughter come in and share her experience with them and show them my MySpace site. My students really enjoyed this lesson however they also wanted to me to add them to my friend list. I told them I couldn't do that since I was closing my MySpace now that I've proven my point and given them something to think about. I also ordered for each of my students a 2SMRT4U ring to help remind them of the lesson and to remind them to be CyberSmart on the Internet. Awesome! I'm glad your daughter understood. I sometimes worry about when I have kids, or when my little cousin (who I help care for) get old enough to be doing dangerous things online... but this sounds like a fantastic teaching devise. I shall consider it smile
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:25 pm
so...she said she's talked to him over teh phone a few times? And she couldn't figure out it was her Grandfather?
Nevermind the fact, she would willingly call someone in Iraq and not worry about her parents noticing the International Phone charges?
I call Bullshit on that, at least.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:29 pm
Wow, that's amazing.
I can't believe she didn't know her own grandpa's voice though, that's kind of sad confused
But I hope she learned a lesson.
EDIT:
And TWO YEARS!? What?! That's a long time to keep a scam going. Hmm.. well, either way.. if it's true or not.. I wouldn't doubt a kid could be that mixed-up though.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:58 pm
wow now that is one way to get a point across...but at least it is some way...
years ago my best friend went through some of the same crap only it wasn't something set up by family members it was an honest to God 40 something year old man who completly fool my then 13 year old friend. THis went on for almost 3 years before her parents figured out she was calling FL almost every day just to talk to this sicko.
I shudder just thinkign about how all that could have got horribly wrong.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:59 pm
Wow, pretty cool grandparents.
My grandmother never even knew who I was... and she didn't have Alzheimer's... or anything... she honestly just didn't care... sweatdrop
But there is a very profound statement there. I just can't fathom how a 14-15 year old and a 42 year old could connect on a really deep or meaningful level. Most teens are just defining their self concept, and middle aged men are in a totally different stage of life. One's friends are going through divorces and custody battles while the other's friends are giggling about American Idol and whining that mom and dad won't buy them a cell phone.
If I wind up having kids, I'm going to make it clear to them that I'm going to join many of the sites they're on, to check for things like the frequency of online perverts messaging one, the amount of security about personal info, etc.
There's a brilliant video floating about called "My Space, a place for Parents to Spy on their Kids" or something to that extent. It's hilarious, I showed it to me mum.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:15 pm
Elliebites mAOri waHIne I LOVE IT!!! I did a similar thing to my daughter. I opened a MySpace account, posted a picture of one of my co-workers niece who was drop dead gorgeous. I gave her a fake name, bio, the whole works. Photoshop pictures of the girl with other girls at the beach, skiing, etc. I randomly invited various people I didn't even know to be my friends, when I finally got a 50 friends from across the county I went to my daughter's site and invited her. At first she didn't want to be my friend, then I went to her friends site and invited them, once they joined I went back to my daughter's site and invited her. She accepted. I posted back and forth to my daughter, her friends and my MySpace friends for about a month. One night, I was on at the same time as my daughter. She was posting to my site and I was responding almost instantly. I could hear her in the other room laughing at my jokes and comments. Then I made a comment about what she had worn that day at school. How I liked her hair and her makeup. This started to freak her out. It took her about an hour for her to come to me and tell me that she thinks that her new MySpace friend may not be who she says she is and might be a stalker. I just sat there and listened then gently turned the laptop I was on around for her to see that I was on my site. She looked at me and said you know "mimi, too"?. I said, honey I am MIMI. She couldn't believe it. I told her that I did this to prove a point to her that you never know who you are talking to on the internet. There are a lot of computer savy people out there that know how to manipulate the system and prey on young innocent teenagers and pre-teens like you. She got the point. I told my Administrator what I did and she asked me if I could keep my Myspace Account to monitor the students at our school. I told her that I couldn't in good conscience do that but that I was more than happy to have my daughter come in and share her experience with them and show them my MySpace site. My students really enjoyed this lesson however they also wanted to me to add them to my friend list. I told them I couldn't do that since I was closing my MySpace now that I've proven my point and given them something to think about. I also ordered for each of my students a 2SMRT4U ring to help remind them of the lesson and to remind them to be CyberSmart on the Internet. Awesome! I'm glad your daughter understood. I sometimes worry about when I have kids, or when my little cousin (who I help care for) get old enough to be doing dangerous things online... but this sounds like a fantastic teaching devise. I shall consider it smile Part of the reason I did it was because I was getting concerned about my daughter spending so much time on MySpace. I have access to her MySpace and would go on now and then to check on her but she uses AIM to communicate off MySpace with people... so, I wanted to teach her a lesson. I got the idea from watching Dateline's Investigative Report on Internet Predators.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:23 pm
AuraLynRose wow now that is one way to get a point across...but at least it is some way... years ago my best friend went through some of the same crap only it wasn't something set up by family members it was an honest to God 40 something year old man who completly fool my then 13 year old friend. THis went on for almost 3 years before her parents figured out she was calling FL almost every day just to talk to this sicko. I shudder just thinkign about how all that could have got horribly wrong. I shudder to think. Thank god your friend's parents found out what was going on. I alway worry about my daughter being online but I have to trust that the lesson I taught her sunk into her thick little head. 3nodding I wish I could say the same about my students... right before Christmas break we were informed that one of our (13 year old) 8th grade girls might be pregnant. She met an 18 year-old military personnel on MySpace, met him and had consent relations. The girl's parents removed her from our school and we haven't heard anything about the situation since. I guess my lesson didn't sink into her head which is sad. As I told my Administrator, my CyberLesson will reach some but not all... not much we can do unless parents are willing to get involved with their child's lives. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:02 am
I wanted to call bullshit on that story, mostly because it just seems highly unlikely that she could have an online relationship for 2 years with her grandparents without something happening. Then I realized it's likely she lied about the time she had known "him" to lend credit to how meaningful her relationship was so people would agree with her.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:29 am
Sedesla I wanted to call bullshit on that story, mostly because it just seems highly unlikely that she could have an online relationship for 2 years with her grandparents without something happening. Then I realized it's likely she lied about the time she had known "him" to lend credit to how meaningful her relationship was so people would agree with her. Wow, never thought of that. But yeah... thats very possible. It was porbably only going on for a few months (at the most)
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:09 am
Sedesla I wanted to call bullshit on that story, mostly because it just seems highly unlikely that she could have an online relationship for 2 years with her grandparents without something happening. Then I realized it's likely she lied about the time she had known "him" to lend credit to how meaningful her relationship was so people would agree with her. Yeah, I thought about this too, this morning with my coffee.. it dawned on me that she's probably just a bit of a liar! xD So that makes a LOT more sense.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:17 am
I don't know but I think I'm calling bullshit on this. 2 years is a long time for something like this to go on and if she spoke with him on the phone how did she not know who it was? Not only that but did she call him or did he call her? It just seems weird and maybe she was trying to give a lesson to the masses.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:43 pm
Besides, as I posted in the thread, if she really just found out her grandparents were scamming her, pretending to be a man she was head over heels for, she would be devastated and humiliated. If it was really love it wouldn't lead to "oh, he never really existed, I was fooled by nanna and grandpa... oh well, I go eat broccoli now... I connet with broccoli"
-shakes head, just shakes it-
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:18 am
Good lord! That first bit gave me a fright! Definitely worth reading on...
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