This is for all the younger kids out there 13 and under who have MySpace pages; guess what, you’re not supposed to have them! Yes, I know that is not fair but those are the rules, and if you lied about your age, that’s not good either!
If, however, you already have one, then here is some information you should know and follow. First of all, don’t EVER, Ever, ever put your real information out there, except for maybe your email address. Don’t put your address, phone number or your real name. You also might not want to put your pictures online, unless you don’t give your real information. Don’t put fake pictures of other people on there either because that’s not safe for the person who is in the picture. It is ok to put your age, but remember you might want to use a nickname instead of your real name. Don’t just put yourself out there for the whole world to see because you are not invincible. There are some really crazy people out there; something dangerous could happen.
Only let your friends have access to your site. Don’t talk to strangers and don’t accept messages from people whose names don’t look familiar. For example, don’t accept emails or messages from people you don’t know because if you open the email or message, it might release a virus into your phone or computer. Don’t meet a person that you met online in a chat room. Many girls have been solicited by guys who they met online. Also, try not to let anyone take over your page and steal your identity. Try to make it impossible for this to happen; for instance, use a password that would be difficult to guess. In order to protect yourself, if you suspect someone has taken over your friend’s page, ask that person something only your friend would know to verify it is them. It could be a secret word, phrase, or weird experience.
Another important thing to do would be to make sure your parents know about your pages. This will probably make your relationship with them stronger because they’ll feel they can trust you; especially if you let them know how to get to your page. It also helps you make sure you aren’t putting information on the Internet that shouldn’t be there.
There are many dangers on the Web that you need to know about. There are sex offenders, kidnappers, and even rapists. Since you are younger, you are an easier target; don’t let yourself be vulnerable. Make sure you take the right precautions to keep you and your friends safe.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
I thought the articles that we read had some of the same things in common: sex offenders and privacy. In the first article, “Counting Sex Offenders in MySpace,” they were counting how many sex offenders were registered on their site. They found 7,000 in May and 29,000 now. That’s a big number and even though that’s out of 180 million, I would not feel safe having a MySpace profile. I remember that some kids let other people look at their profile and they talked to them even though they didn’t know who they were and ended up getting hurt. One girl that they talked about in one of the articles was solicited by a guy who met her online. My friend who has a MySpace page told me that there is an option that lets only your friends in. I don’t believe that will keep you 100% safe with all the computer hackers in the world, but she feels safe and I hope nothing bad happens to her.
Also, in one of the articles they said that pretty much everybody is allowed a MySpace page except for children under 14. I didn’t know about that rule so I know that the friend I talked about in the previous paragraph was not 14 when she made her page because she won’t be 14 until September and she already has had a page for a while. I don’t have one and I probably never will which is fine with me.
Other friends that I know have MySpace pages and other pages from other sites, such as Bebo, Black Planet, Facebook, and others that I can’t remember the names of right now. Which reminds me, I would not want a Facebook either, but one of my friends says she doesn’t like a feature on Facebook called “Honesty Box” where people can say anything they want to you and it shows up in that box but you have the option to delete it and my friend said she would. Some people put their actual pictures on those pages which I would not do. Some people are just plain crazy and they put all their information out there, thinking no one will find them and do something to them. Some people put pictures of other people and try to be them which is not safe to the person who it’s a picture of.
All in all, I wish the best to all the people with pages on sites like MySpace. Remember: Don’t put all your information on the Internet; it’s not that safe of a place.
Also, in one of the articles they said that pretty much everybody is allowed a MySpace page except for children under 14. I didn’t know about that rule so I know that the friend I talked about in the previous paragraph was not 14 when she made her page because she won’t be 14 until September and she already has had a page for a while. I don’t have one and I probably never will which is fine with me.
Other friends that I know have MySpace pages and other pages from other sites, such as Bebo, Black Planet, Facebook, and others that I can’t remember the names of right now. Which reminds me, I would not want a Facebook either, but one of my friends says she doesn’t like a feature on Facebook called “Honesty Box” where people can say anything they want to you and it shows up in that box but you have the option to delete it and my friend said she would. Some people put their actual pictures on those pages which I would not do. Some people are just plain crazy and they put all their information out there, thinking no one will find them and do something to them. Some people put pictures of other people and try to be them which is not safe to the person who it’s a picture of.
All in all, I wish the best to all the people with pages on sites like MySpace. Remember: Don’t put all your information on the Internet; it’s not that safe of a place.
Friday, July 27, 2007
July 24, 2007
senator@stabenow.senate.gov
Dear Senator Stabenow,
I am writing to you about the issue of child labor. It is a worldwide problem and should be stopped. I know that I am young and may have no power in this issue but that is why I’m writing to you because I think you have the power and concern to make a difference. I hope that after reading my letter you will know a little bit more about child labor than you did before and not feel you wasted your time reading this letter.
If you are looking for a reason to believe me then here are a few: I’ve done a couple of research papers about child labor so I’m familiar with what I’m talking about, I’ve read numerous academic journals and magazines and I’ve done a lot of research so that all the information I give you is recent and accurate.
Child labor is the employment of children under the age specified by the Fair Standards Labor Act (FLSA). It is estimated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) that there are 250 million child laborers worldwide right now. Most of them are 11 to 14 years old but 60 million are 4 to 11. These children can’t get a good education because they are always working. They don’t have time to be a kid. Some have to do work harder than what their parents are doing. 96% of these children are located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Most of these children are hired by employers who don’t know what the rules and regulations are about child labor.
There are many laws and regulations about child labor. For example, 14 and 15 year olds can work a maximum of 3 hours per day and 18 hours per week when they’re in school. When they’re not in school, however, they can work a maximum of 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. They can’t work before 7 am or after 7 pm except in the summer, and then they can work until 9 pm. If you are under 16 you cannot work during school hours. Youth minimum wage is $4.25 an hour but a four year old in India makes about $1.50 a week. Also, you cannot fire an adult employee for a child worker.
We need to help these children because if we don’t they will grow up and not get a good-paying job because they didn’t get a good education because they were poor. They won’t make enough money to provide for their family so they will have to give their child up to child labor. Child labor is passed down from generation to generation because of this cycle.
In conclusion, I challenge you to make a difference. Steps we can take to make this happen are to boycott things made in places using child labor. For example, we can boycott clothing made in Indonesia, dolls and other toys made in China, and soccer balls made in India. However, we can’t just stop child labor cold turkey in some countries because their economy is based on child labor; that’s their source of income. What we need to do is find another source of income for them. I know this sounds like a lot of work but I think we can do it and it will be worthwhile in the end. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my letter. I really appreciate it!
senator@stabenow.senate.gov
Dear Senator Stabenow,
I am writing to you about the issue of child labor. It is a worldwide problem and should be stopped. I know that I am young and may have no power in this issue but that is why I’m writing to you because I think you have the power and concern to make a difference. I hope that after reading my letter you will know a little bit more about child labor than you did before and not feel you wasted your time reading this letter.
If you are looking for a reason to believe me then here are a few: I’ve done a couple of research papers about child labor so I’m familiar with what I’m talking about, I’ve read numerous academic journals and magazines and I’ve done a lot of research so that all the information I give you is recent and accurate.
Child labor is the employment of children under the age specified by the Fair Standards Labor Act (FLSA). It is estimated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) that there are 250 million child laborers worldwide right now. Most of them are 11 to 14 years old but 60 million are 4 to 11. These children can’t get a good education because they are always working. They don’t have time to be a kid. Some have to do work harder than what their parents are doing. 96% of these children are located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Most of these children are hired by employers who don’t know what the rules and regulations are about child labor.
There are many laws and regulations about child labor. For example, 14 and 15 year olds can work a maximum of 3 hours per day and 18 hours per week when they’re in school. When they’re not in school, however, they can work a maximum of 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. They can’t work before 7 am or after 7 pm except in the summer, and then they can work until 9 pm. If you are under 16 you cannot work during school hours. Youth minimum wage is $4.25 an hour but a four year old in India makes about $1.50 a week. Also, you cannot fire an adult employee for a child worker.
We need to help these children because if we don’t they will grow up and not get a good-paying job because they didn’t get a good education because they were poor. They won’t make enough money to provide for their family so they will have to give their child up to child labor. Child labor is passed down from generation to generation because of this cycle.
In conclusion, I challenge you to make a difference. Steps we can take to make this happen are to boycott things made in places using child labor. For example, we can boycott clothing made in Indonesia, dolls and other toys made in China, and soccer balls made in India. However, we can’t just stop child labor cold turkey in some countries because their economy is based on child labor; that’s their source of income. What we need to do is find another source of income for them. I know this sounds like a lot of work but I think we can do it and it will be worthwhile in the end. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my letter. I really appreciate it!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Child labor is the employment of children under a certain age determined by the government. Child labor exists in India, China, the US, Africa, Asia, Latin America and other places. It is estimated that 250 million children are in child labor around the world. 96% of child workers live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Most of these children are between the ages of 11 and 14 but there are 60 million that are 5 to 11 years of age. (American Journal of Public Health pg. 271)
Some employers that are hiring kids don’t know the child labor laws or job safety of their employees. That is why every year hundreds of thousands of children are injured where they work and approximately 70 die from these injuries. The Labor Department says that children must be at least 16 to work in a nonharmful job and at least 18 to work in a hazardous job. Children who are 14 and 15 can work under certain conditions.
The conditions that children work in are sometimes terrible: they’re overcrowded, unsanitized, hot, dusty, and loud. These children have to go to work in these conditions everyday. The short-term effect may sound good (an increase in family income) but the long-term effects are terrible. Since the children don’t go to school most of time, they grow up working in low-paying jobs because they’re illiterate. They can’t provide enough for their family so they have to send their children into child labor too. With this happening, child labor is pretty much being passed from generation to generation which is going in a complete circle and not improving anything. We need to help these people go to school and get a good education so their children don’t have to go through the same things they did. Their children can live life like a kid and not an adult.
Most times children have to do a lot of work for little or no amount of pay. For example, a four-year-old named Kajal has to roll up 22,000 incense sticks to get her pay of 100 taka which, in American money is about $1.50. It takes her about a week to complete the task, which means that she earns about $1.50 a week. A four-year-old should not have to roll up 22,000 incense sticks to get her pay; she should be in school getting the proper education. This is why child labor should be stopped.
Even though child labor can never be ended completely, because people will always disobey the law, we need to take the small steps toward making it a lot better. We can’t, however, just stop child labor without doing anything else to help the children because in some families, the child is the only source of income. If we take that away, that might force the children to go into some job that was worse their child labor job. Also, some countries are so poor that stopping child labor altogether might destroy the country’s economy. What we can do is boycott things made using child labor.
Sources
Roggero, Paola. "The Health Impact of Child Labor in Developing Countries: Evidence From Cross-Country Data." American Journal of Public Health 97 (2007): 271-275. WilsonSelectPlus.
Worthington, Barbara. "Not a Minor Labor Law Violation: Child Labor Laws a Problem Point for Employer, Says Study." Risk & Insurance May 2007: 13. Info Trac.
Some employers that are hiring kids don’t know the child labor laws or job safety of their employees. That is why every year hundreds of thousands of children are injured where they work and approximately 70 die from these injuries. The Labor Department says that children must be at least 16 to work in a nonharmful job and at least 18 to work in a hazardous job. Children who are 14 and 15 can work under certain conditions.
The conditions that children work in are sometimes terrible: they’re overcrowded, unsanitized, hot, dusty, and loud. These children have to go to work in these conditions everyday. The short-term effect may sound good (an increase in family income) but the long-term effects are terrible. Since the children don’t go to school most of time, they grow up working in low-paying jobs because they’re illiterate. They can’t provide enough for their family so they have to send their children into child labor too. With this happening, child labor is pretty much being passed from generation to generation which is going in a complete circle and not improving anything. We need to help these people go to school and get a good education so their children don’t have to go through the same things they did. Their children can live life like a kid and not an adult.
Most times children have to do a lot of work for little or no amount of pay. For example, a four-year-old named Kajal has to roll up 22,000 incense sticks to get her pay of 100 taka which, in American money is about $1.50. It takes her about a week to complete the task, which means that she earns about $1.50 a week. A four-year-old should not have to roll up 22,000 incense sticks to get her pay; she should be in school getting the proper education. This is why child labor should be stopped.
Even though child labor can never be ended completely, because people will always disobey the law, we need to take the small steps toward making it a lot better. We can’t, however, just stop child labor without doing anything else to help the children because in some families, the child is the only source of income. If we take that away, that might force the children to go into some job that was worse their child labor job. Also, some countries are so poor that stopping child labor altogether might destroy the country’s economy. What we can do is boycott things made using child labor.
Sources
Roggero, Paola. "The Health Impact of Child Labor in Developing Countries: Evidence From Cross-Country Data." American Journal of Public Health 97 (2007): 271-275. WilsonSelectPlus.
Worthington, Barbara. "Not a Minor Labor Law Violation: Child Labor Laws a Problem Point for Employer, Says Study." Risk & Insurance May 2007: 13. Info Trac.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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