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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the beginning of the pandemic, I wasn't happy about my then 10 year old's use of Discord, as she went from chatting to her best friend, to her best friend's friends, and their friends, and got into cyber fights with people she didn't know at all. Once that got shut down, she was allowed to belong to a safer, highly regulated community online (Star Stable), but that got boring, so now she's on another creative animal one, also moderated, but not as much, so she sits right by me on the couch and tells me whatever goes on there. So far it's very innocuous.

I repeat at least once a week that she mustn't give out any personal identification, and she knows what the list is. She has to report anything that makes her feel weird, anything anyone says that's inappropriate (there were plenty of those on Discord!). And since I'm literally reading the stuff over her shoulder, I can see we're fine so far.

She has never provided pronouns, but apparently this is a thing in MoCo - even some of her teachers provide pronouns. It's silly IMO, but not something that raises a red flag for me. It's not as if they could identify your child with that.

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I have similar rules for my 11 year old. We talk about internet safety in some form or fashion every day and I listen to the chats periodically. She is not permitted to share her real name, location, show her face, etc. She basically is just playing Adopt Me or Minecraft. The kids really get into building stuff. She loves it. [/quote]

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