Quote From: cupcake42I have a question for all of you out there young & old alike. I created a fake profile on myspace to see how far I could get with my stepdaughter and her friends. (both profiles are "private) I request to be "friends" with my stepdaughter's friend & she let me in. After reading all of her comments from way back in September to present, I found out some disturbing things she said about myself & her dad. A few days into this they both figured out (from the Trakor thats on her friend's site) that it was me. My stepdaughter was so pissed that she e mailed her father to "handle this". I then deleted the account. But as he put it, if I could get that far, how far would a "bad person" get? Now mind you they are 17 yrs old, but I think they are very naive. She said she never wants to see me again-now mind you we are going to visit them in March for her brother's graduation from college. What do you think? Was I wrong? I admit, maybe the way I went about it was deceitful, but it worked.
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I can understand that it is hard. I am not a mother, but I am a twenty year old girl who had some friends who chatted people up on the internet. And believe me, it is not safe. The thiong is, young people love to talk about the things they don't like to people they don't know. The whole idea is that the people you are talking about will never read it. I am not saying that what she did was right, not at all. But for the 'bad person' on the internet... The only thing you can do is raise your daughter the best way you can. If you worry about her, talk to her and do not let her send you away. A friend of mine went on a date when she was 16 with someone she did not know, and she still regrets it.
But about you making a fake profile... That never works. Two years I had a boyfriend who I really loved and because I made a fake identity to find out what he was doing ( I had the feeling he was cheating on me) I found out a lot of things I did not want to know about him. It totally broke my heart. So I would advice people not to make fake accounts... Honesty is the way to go. Just ask, respect the other person. Everyone does things they regret later. You should base your relationship with her on honesty. But, of course this is just my opinion...
