Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Internet Sex Kittens

Social networking site Facebook is under fire by the New York Attorney General's office for not offering a safe environment for younger children. The USA Today article states undercover investigators went on Facebook posing as minors and subsequently received contact from those totally not BFF-worthy and complaints went unresolved. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo takes issue with the fact that Facebook is specifically marketed as a safe place to the underage.

Who would have thought that the internet, and especially a site catering toward the college-age and young adult crowd, would not be a safe place for children (or 43-year-olds named Ernestine posing as little Becky12)? While it should be necessary for the parental units to monitor their child to ensure they aren't hooking up with 35 year-olds from three states away, that duty clearly won't be recognized anytime soon. Facebook may have some tricks to weed out pedophiles and child predators but that certainly should not completely allay parents' fears about these sites.

Parents, in the end, it is your responsibility for your children. Do yourself a favor, get your kid off of MySpace and Facebook and computers in general to go interact with people IRL. We do this in hopes that we will have at least one less edition of "Dateline: To Catch a Predator" choking up the airwaves.