This is a rich and upper-middle-class problem. They have too much time, too much technology and their parents aren’t around to keep an eye on them.

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that’s the one inside their heads.

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Today’s plans from the big carriers don’t address parental control issues. There are a lot of parents who want their kids to have cell phones so they can get in touch with them when they...

These profiles can be a window into their souls. It’s a unique opportunity to learn about your kids. You may find out that your kids write poetry or actually enjoyed the vacation you went on.

All children? need to have access to the Internet to succeed in life,

Give your kids an amnesty day. Tell them you want to see everything they write and all the pictures they post and promise that you won’t get mad or punish them for it.

Unless we ‘think outside of the box’ in crafting innovative and immediate solutions, these abuses will continue and escalate.

I expect there’s going to be a lot more posting and a lot less thinking before they click.

Give the kids 24 hours to clean it up. When I had kids, and they had a party downstairs . . . I would make a lot of noise before I’d go downstairs so I...

Take their keyboards to work with you. They can live without the mouse, but not the keyboard.

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can’t keep up. I don’t know how parents would.

The Internet’s too important and fabulous a place for us to screw up. It’s like saying that nobody can go New York because some areas are dangerous.

Lots and lots of parents want their kids’ profiles down. But we all need to take a breath and fashion solutions to address the real problem, which is how much information kids are putting online...

Kids used to pass notes around in school. Now they’re putting it onto pages with 42 million users.

Parents are often either unaware of dangers, or they’re freaked out about them. They want software but they don’t know where to start looking or how to use it.

If someone called your home and asked to talk to your kid, you would know how to handle that. But it’s once there’s a mention of technology that we don’t know how to handle it....

I think most of the sites are good guys,

You’re advertising that you are a victim.

Kids are sharing too much personal information.

While it may not be the single silver bullet in the fight to protect our children in cyberspace, … it is an important piece of a much larger solution.

They don’t see a real risk because they’re sitting in their living rooms or bedrooms where they don’t see anyone there to hurt them.

Groups that are hacking these sites are making it hard for us to convict the pedophiles behind those sites,

They want a cell phone to be in the kid’s hands, but they want control.

If you freak, the kids are just going to hide (their online activity).

This is what teens do. They act out and pretend to be cool. It’s not easy for them in real life, but online they just have to change the background of their Web site to...

Teens are teens for a reason. It’s because they aren’t yet adults. That’s why we have to keep a close watch over them.

We need to tell the difference between being paranoid and being careful,

Parents are clueless. Parents need to recognize that these kids are going to be using this whether we like it or not. That said, say to your kids, ‘I’d like to see your profile page...

A lot of teens have no idea that what they’re posting may have ramifications later on in life. If it’s on the Internet for one second, it’s on the Internet forever.

They don’t know how to exercise judgment. There’s no impulse control of kids these age.

I advise parents first to take a breath and not to overact. That’s not the way to approach the problem. We should remember what we did as kids and keep that in mind with what...

Sites that say the Holocaust never happened, that certain people are genetically inferior can be far more dangerous than naked bodies, … personal choice.

They’re licking their lips and arching their back for the camera because they can, and they have no idea of the consequences.

The kids need to use the filter between their ears. They need to know the Internet is not between them and their computers. … What they say online for two seconds is permanent, like a...

It gives them a chance to not be a bad guy but play one on TV. They act out because they can, because they think they are invisible.

Teaching kids what to do when the unexpected arises is the most important training,

These guys are serious, and they do care.

It’s not about technology, it’s about how much you communicate with your kids about what they are doing.

Kids are doing things online that they don’t do in real life. We need to teach them that online is real. They have to be accountable for what they do… and they have to be...

You’d keep me busy enough.

A lot of people think that whatever they’re posting is between them and their computer, and it’s not. You shouldn’t post anything that parents, principal, and a predator [shouldn’t] see, because they’re going to.

Don’t share info that you wouldn’t put on a billboard on a superhighway. We need to remember that whatever you type on the Internet stays on the Internet. It’s like a tattoo.

As kids become more tech savvy, something has to be done. We can’t just tell children not to visit these sites and assume that will be enough. And we’ve heard that parental control programs are...

In real life, you have to worry about someone spotting you if you stalk them… . Online no one’s going to punch you in the face.

Even parents who are watching their kids’ computers are clueless that they’ve put a [cell phone] in their kid’s hands that can be used to trade this stuff around.

With this domain, protections will be built in that aren’t in place now. They will be very careful to make sure there’s no marketing to children through a number of controls, and that’s welcome. We...

Parents just want to be able to put controls in place with as little hassle as possible. They don’t want to learn how to use something, or have multiple levels of control. They want a...

Parents aren’t happy. Schools are unhappy.