Who’s ready for more inappropriate potty humor???? Everyone??
That’s what I thought.
I was over at a friend’s house today talking to her and her tween daughter. Talk of Instagram came up and my friend told me that someone Tween knew had posted a semi-scandalous picture of themself (I know that’s not a word but WHATEVS) and Tween had seen it and told her mother. This led to a great convo in which they discussed, again, what was and wasn’t okay to post on the Internet.
Me: Don’t EVER even take a picture of yourself that you wouldn’t want to have to show to your grandparents, yourself.
Tween: I know…
Me: I mean, once it’s out there, even if you take it down, somebody has already forwarded it or taken a screen shot and they can do whatever they want to with it.
Friend: We’ve talked about this a lot. I hope it’s sinking in. We had one little incident around Christmas when our elf (You know those Elf on a Shelf thingies?) replaced everyone’s stocking with a pair of their underwear. Before I knew it she had taken a picture and posted the whole family’s underwear online.
Tween giggled.
Me: Uh-oh, so now all your friends have seen your parent’s underwear?
Friend: Speaking of underwear, I need to get Son some new underwear. He’s practically in the same size as Hubs now.
Tween’s jaw dropped to the ground.
Tween: Momma!! Does Brother have a huge weinie?????
I spit my Diet Coke across the room and any semblance of trying to be a good role model went out the window as I doubled over with laughter and wheezed the rest of my Diet Coke into my lungs.
Friend was as thrown by my laughter as she was Tween’s comment so we all laughed hysterically for a couple of minutes. I was wiping tears out of my eyes as Friend pulled herself together.
Friend: NO! Good grief! It’s just that–
Tween interrupted: Daddy’s is really small???
I almost vomited with laughter.
Friend: *screams tweens name* NO! OMG! It has NOTHING to do with that! He is just getting bigger everywhere!! That’s ALL!
Me: 4 hours later– still laughing.
I haven’t had to deal with cell phone drama yet. But I’ll go ahead and say it. I’m skeered.
Have you had to deal with cell phone drama? Biggest issue? If not, biggest fear?
You can follow me on Instagram as robinobryant. (Expect lots of inappropriate pictures.)
Have you heard of snapchat? It’s even worse.
Oh GAWD.
OMG! Tears are just rolling over here. That is hilarious!
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I know!! It’s still funny to me!
That’s hilarious! It’s also why my kid doesn’t have a phone yet!
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Yes, I’ve dealt with this drama already, mostly on Facebook. Luckily, I have zero problems with publicly shaming my kids, so they think twice next time. One time my daughter ‘liked’ a suspect picture on Facebook and since she did that in a public forum, I decided to post on her wall that she was grounded for the next two weeks from all social media and phone and maybe she’d think twice about her actions online in the future. It never happened again.
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What’s snapchat? Yes, I live under a rock.
I’m a mom of four teenagers. Snapchat is a forum where kids take a picture of themselves and send it to another user. Supposedly, the picture “disappears” after ten seconds, but it’s still enough time to take a screen shot. It appears to have been exclusively made for sexting. Nice. However, let me just tell you, your worst fear should be Tumblr. No, I did not spell that incorrectly. Tumblr. It’s a social networking site that appears to be similar to Pinterest, but it’s NOT Pinterest. Tumblr is the most addicting social networking site for teens and young adults these days. There are whole “blogs” dedicated to self-harming, suicide, sex……it’s really scary! Sure, some kids just want to have their own “blog” on this social network but there’s no hiding them from the horrible blogs. And the biggest goal is to become “Tumblr famous” and get the most (random stranger) followers. We’ve had our share of Facebook dust-ups, and some text bullying, but the worst thing that ever happened in our household was when my ex-husband (Disneyland dad) gave my three children each their own iPads and handed their young selves the whole, unguarded internet. Smooth move, dad! I’m telling you, there are some scary things out there.
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Yes, the snapchat. Things are getting crazy out there. I was a big hold out on getting our 11 year old a phone. My husband did. They can find things to do with these phones. ugh. Just wait.
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Mary-Leah, thank you for enlightening me….I think! The more I learn about social media the happier I am that it wasn’t around when I was growing up, and the more worried I become at my daughter having to grow up with it.
i might have caught my son taking a picture of his boy parts with his ds.he’s 7. it took me a while before i could stop laughing long enough to impart the importance of “keep your privates private, Private!”- one of my many cheesy mottos
My daughter has grown up in a household with just my (female) partner and me. Her Father visits when he can and they sometimes vacation together. So..she hasn’t been exposed to male genitalia. Once, when her father was here for Christmas when she was 4, she decided that she’d surprise him by getting in the shower with him since she often showered with me in the mornings. I don’t knew who was more stunned, him or her. I was in my bedroom and heard this strangled male yelp of surprise and then my wet, naked daughter came running into my bedroom, terrified. “I went to get in the shower with Dad and he turned around and Mama, he has this hose thing coming out of his vagina!” We bought anatomy books for her soon after.
One way to have them think twice about what they post on Intsagram is the “rumor”, that’s also been on the news, that the “Instagram owner is claiming ownership of all pictures, etc., posted on Instagram. You put it out there, he keeps it. Does said Tweenager want to think of some creepy ‘old dude’ owning whatever pictuers of her? Maybe posting them all over his office walls? I would hope not. If that isn’t a deterrent, I don’t know what would be?