Daughter?

[x jenni x]

Would you let your daughter meet up with someone she only knew from the internet?

[violetblue]

never.

[RATTER15]

That really depends how old she is, if she is under 16. No!! if she was older I would try to dissuade her or ensure she takes a trustworthy friend and spell out all the risks, maybe even take her yourself and ask to be introduced.

[speedyvic]

Even though i have met up with people from the net, i would not allow my daughter to. There are to many perverts about, you only have to listen to the news to know what I'm on about.

[violetblue]

NB Jenni, just a point, you don't 'know' anyone from the Internet, you can only get to know them afterwards. That's why it's so dangerous.

[bex401]

No way!!!

[nat_84]

how old is she? If she's under 18 then no way!!!!!

When/if i have kids - i will do my best to avoid them chatting online.

[redcrx]

Jenni,
what age are you talking about?
I met my boyfriend on the internet. I was always careful of where i met people if i met anyone from the net and i had arrangemants with friends who would check i was ok etc.

[cameo]

absolutely not!

[Catso]

No!

[redcrx]

btw Im 33 so my mum had no real problem with it.

Until you say what age you are talking about you cant really get a true idea of what others think of it.

[tradey]

no way at all,never

[Craig007]

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crete]

no too dangerous

[noxlumos]

Bloody hell group paranoia.Lol
It would depend upon the age of the girl, if she's over 16 it's her own decision anyway and there's not much you can do about it, where they were meeting, who she was with ( lone meetings are never a good idea), whether she'd had web cam chats or just text chats, whether they'd correpsonded for years or just for a few weeks, whether they had phoned each other and we had landline phone numbers, checkable adresses etc, there are lots of variables which all need careful consideration before a rational decision could be reached.
Just because it's the internet doesn't make it automatically dangerous and just because people meet face to face first doesn't make it automatically safe. My kids have met with a lot of people that they've met on the net and oddly enough none of them have turned out to be filthy old perverts, but that's because they are very careful about who they chat with,the types of chat they have, what they arrange and they very careful to safeguard themselves and so are we.
Take stock of who it's supposed to be etc, how safe the meeting will be and take it from there.

[redcrx]

Thank you nox,
was beginning to feel like a leper for meeting people online.
jenni still hasnt said how old this person.

[steviep165]

the voice of reason. well done nox.

[Dutty_Burd]

HELL no!!!!

[Lonnie]

Hi jenni, I din't know if this is a reference to my grumpy thread, and repatee with raysparx, if not, then if my daughter was 'normal', then no, definately not, but as things stand, if I was there, and it was Ray, then yes.

[Pippa68]

Thnak you, noxy :o)

My daughter is 16 & has met a very nice chap online ~ he is 17. I have chatted to him on the phone, and he has also spoken to my daughters dad (my ex) Mr P has waved at him on webcam & we have all had voice conversations with him.

He wants to come down and see us all. We have no qualms whatsoever in inviting him down to stay ~ but maybe this is because we know he is who he says he is..saying that, even if we didn't there isn't a lot we could do to stop her meeting him as she is 16. We can only advise, and both Mr P and I decided that if we were to block any meeting, or say a flat out 'NO' to her communicating with him, she would probably go behind our backs anyway.