I have my God-daughter (14) as a friend on Facebook, and this afternoon I saw that she'd posted a link to her Twitter account. I had a quick look (nosy God-mother alert) and was quite frankly horrified by some of the things she was tweeting! Foul language (almost every other word!!), lots of sexual innuendo, tons of references to sex and drinking, lots of bitchy comments about other girls...
Now I always believed I knew my God-daughter pretty well. But I know her as a funny, sweet (if sometimes a bit stroppy) girl, and I would have never expected these sort of posts from her. As far as I'm aware, she doesn't drink, and doesn't cause her parents too much trouble! Her Facebook is filled with the typical pouty photos and trivial posts I have come to expect from teenagers (my own DDs, nieces and their friends are the same), but nothing like this!! I am wondering if she wasn't expecting me/any other adults to see this Twitter account?
I don't know whether I'm overreacting, but my first thought is to phone up the little madam and ask her why she thinks it's okay to post this sort of thing! But then she'll only go and make it private, and I'm more bothered about understanding whether this is how she is, and I just don't know it, or whether it's just a 'trying to fit in, this is what everyone does' type of situation.
I can't help but think about the Paris Brown situation and I wonder if this sort of discussion with my God-daughter might make her understand how these posts could have an impact on her later on in life?
Has anybody else dealt with something similar? Not sure how to go about dealing with it, or whether I'm just overreacting and all teenagers do this...
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StabInTheDark · 05/05/2013 22:35
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