Hawaii Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
*Parents*
I know you're a few years off from this, but I had an upsetting talk with a student today. She and some friends decided to go on chatroulette (link here if you don't know what that is), got randomly connected to an old guy wearing a cat mask who was holding a bird in his hand. He told my student that if she didn't show him her tits, he'd kill the bird. Then he picked up a knife. My student refused, and he then killed the bird in front of her.
Suffice to say, she's pretty traumatized.
I cannot stress this enough: do NOT let your child have a computer in their bedroom. You can't watch them 24/7, I know, but they'll think twice about what they do if it's in a public space.
Re: *Parents*
I'm traumatized just reading this. Horrible.
My children won't have computers/tvs/video games etc in their rooms, I cringe just thinking about what will be on the market when Jack is older. Maybe we will move off grid up in the mountains. Haha, kidding - extreme sheltering isn't good.
OMG!! I didn't even know such website exists.
I completely agree! DH and I already talked about this and we both agreed that there will be NO computer in the kids rooms. We'll put the computer in the living room where we can see what they are doing.
I agree with this completely. I never even heard of chatroulette until I opened this post and click on your wikipedia link to read about it, but it just goes to show how dangerous the internet can be. I'm sorry your student went through that =( Thanks for sharing!
I saw this on the news not too long ago (about the website). I can't believe this exists!
How sad for your student!
People make me sick!!!
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+1. that is so awful.
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This is disturbing and sad! Your poor student!
Exactly this. And we're not going to allow a cell phone before high school...at least not one that they can call/text whomever they wish. I could see one of those kiddie ones (where the calls are restricted to numbers the parents designate) but not a full-fledged one earlier than that.
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OMG how disturbing!
This for us, too. And DH is plotting to put all kinds of limits on their access as well (hooray for IT guys lol!).
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me either! I am sad too for your student (as a former teacher, I can only imagine how difficult it was to hear that!).