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- From: csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Net Access at age 14?
- Message-ID: <1gqHuB3w165w@gizmonic.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:37:23 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.064806.17662@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Reply-To: csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas)
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- ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
-
- ~ ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret) writes:
- ~
- ~ >I had (and still do) net access when I was 14-15... I don't see why
- ~ >people shouldn't.
- ~
- ~ >I'm not sure the 6 year old or even the 9 year old would get as much out
- ~ >of it though. Then again, I don't know your kids. :)
- ~
- ~ The K12 groups and netmail's a good place for kids to get their
- ~ feet wet. And these guys know that Waffle's aren't just for
- ~ breakfast (well, neither is chocolate).
- ~
- Only problem I see with kids on the net is that this is the time of
- their lives when they should be out gettin into trouble with the law
- and young girls (boys), and not spending all their free time praying
- to the Cathode Ray Temple. I mean, they've got the rest of their
- lives to fry their retinas. Are we developing a generation of youth
- that would rather play SuperNintendo Baseball than get dirty with the
- real thing?
-
- a place for everything, and everything in it's place.
-
- shane
-
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