Any tips on keeping your kids off Facebook who are on constantly?


My daughter especially, is on it non-stop. It's a daily event like checking email, but it's more because she chats constantly, post and reads constantly, and ties up the family computer ALL NIGHT. It's driving me crazy.


Last week she finshed a 1 week term paper and had to be on the computer and I checked the log, and every day she was posting and constantly texting friends. She said it was to ask questions about the paper, but I could see she was posting on their sites and chatting way too much. Of course she waited until the last day to write her paper.

 

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set a time limit?

you can be on from 8-9 but other family members would like to be on the computer also.


talk to her and get her input on the time she would like. likely less fight than an arbitrary time set by you.

then stick to your guns.

 

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If you tell her to stop visiting Facebook and she doesn't comply, create a profile just for her (and each member of the family), password protect your admin profile and disallow Facebook on her profile. Take away her rights on the machine to change any settings.

Silver

 

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You're the parent here, unplug the internet when she's on the PC if she doesnt listen!


Sit there with her if she needs to research.


EDIT: typing when sleepy not good

 

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It's hard to limit her time, because she says she needs to finish homework. Her school gives a minimum of 3 hours a night homework, though she spends most of that typing up her work. When I see what she's up to she just flips back and forth between FAcebook and homework.

 

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she has it minimized??


Like Lyli said, you are the parent, click it closed.


Tell her no facebook until her homework is finished?


Facebook and myspace are not allowed on the computers I have purchased in our home. Our son has it on his laptop he got for college, but he knows better than to pull it up on other computers.

 

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Like others have said, you're going to just have to set rules.

Obviously it's near impossible to stop her from flipping back and forth, so if she really is doing homework, it should only be that, and have facebook turned off, even unable to access it would work.

Bet you 3 hours of homework turns into a hell of a lot less when half the time isn't spent on facebook.

 

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If she refuses to stay off facebook, dont let her use the computer. At all. She wants to type up her stuff? Too bad. She should have been following the rules. If the school requires that things be typed, then the school can provide a computer for it. Otherwise, she can just deal with handwritten work.

 

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Buy her a typewriter.

 

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