Interesting Google story from my daughter last night..

Just out of curiosity: at what age do you guys think it's appropriate for a kid to have his/her own email address. My daughter is 7 and her mom is against her having one. I of course am for it.

 

My daughter has had a yahoo email address since she was 5 I think. I don't see anything wrong with it. She uses it sign up for kid websites she likes to go on, send emails to grandma, etc. Why would it not be appropriate, what is your wife's view on this?

 

i think it's good that kids have early exposure to the Internet (but then again, i'm a big kid so i might be biased ) but as janet ask, what is your wife's view on this? distraction?

 

From what I've collected out of our arguments, she thinks that it would be too easy for bad things to come her way, spam and what not with stuff that she'd be better off not seeing. The fear that no matter how private you keep an email address, there will still be bad emails from those who try addresses randomly. She is trying to shelter her, I feel like we should let her and pretty much be there to answer the questions regarding anything that may come up. But then again, I don't have custody. I've registered her a gmail account last year though. She's used it a couple of times to email me, but hasn't been allowed to since.

 

well, if i may say this, being in school also opens DD to bad stuffs. friends may influence her, things she'd be better off not seeing, etc.

 

I agree with you. We're living in a fast pace world. And I do believe in parental supervision. I also think our government needs to keep up working on minimizing the dangers presented online.

 

true, my wife is paranoid ... and naive to some extent.

 

I'm doing some legal research. The first page of google is usually useless IMO. The featured ads are just as useless. They all go to keyword bomb MFA sites.

It's becoming apparent there is an adsense bubble. There seems to be many players that whore adsense and use adwords to do it. Not a cool observation to make.

 

An example noppid ?

Just curious which legal terms you're using

Cheers,

JL

 

I honestly think there is something to that suggestion someone's made the other day, that when you want good results, search and then go straight to page 2 or 3 ...

 

I'm going WOT. I have no clue in particular. But I can't help notice the keyword rich sites that go to adsense ads only. It's frustrating. Especially when I tried the paid ads looking for good stuff I might pay for.

P.S.
Besides, I'm being followed. I can't talk about the things I'm doing in detail. But I'm making someone famous!

 

imo SE's are like cheese...
G=A premium swiss (High quality, but full of holes)
MSN=Indivually wrapped processed american (Fresh but low quality)
Y=Moldy, stanky Limburger.

 

MSN mystery food item with some cheesy content

 

i use g and y most of the time
but when looking for fresh content i go msn

 

some are already doing it, heck, I even get visitors coming from page 7 or even 9 of SERPs. Personally, I usually go thru the first page and if it's not there I refine my search string. Google is what I use the most for my inquiries.

 

MSN - Mostly Searches Nothing

 

There is always auto white-listing, which is the practise of automatically dumping e-mail that isn't in the addressee's address book. Turn that option on, add all the approved addresses into the address book, and watch the spam folder swell in size.

In this case, I feel that it is an appropriate solution to address your problem, since you probably were not expecting any strangers to send an email to that email address.

 

Even though off topic, a good Q. Any age, but at younger ages setup up a private list of people who can email her. This is easy to do. IE, just the family and any friends of hers you see fit. Easy to setup.

 

My Mom and my two brothers use yahoo they said google's result always wants you to sell something unlike yahoo that it gives the info you need not the things you should buy.

 

I'm tech guy (oracle, ERP, programming) I search 100 times a day maybe
These are my preferences:

1. MSN
2. Yahoo
Finally 3.Google