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Dd2 and the internet - Possibility that some man has emailed her, not sure what to do next

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NervousNutty · 25/08/2009 17:01

Right Dd2 is 9. She has had her own email addy for about a yr, mainly so my brother and her friend could email her. She is also allowed to use msn, and up until now we have never had any problems.

I have chatted to both dd2 and her elder sister about the dangers of the internet, and they always have to ask me before sigin up to anything, and when doing so they always use their middle name as their last name etc.

Last week, dd2 was on a site called Viz Voz, I was sat i the room with her, and I noticed that when I got up she went to delete what she was going to type as a reply to someone. They create a charatcer on there and this one she'd been talking to was a boy.
He had said to dd 'i hope you don't hate me now'.

I asked what he meant and eventually she told me that he had said to her that he was upset beause he had dreamt that his dad had hung himself.
I told her that she should have told me immeidatly, and for her not to speak to him again.
Again I went over what info she was allowed to give out to people and that she should tell me straight away if anything seemed odd.

So, today she has just told me that a man has emailed her 4 times to her hotmail account. She said she cant remember his name but that 2 of the emails were requests to join facebook. Dd2 isn't on facebook.
She said she didn't read the other 2 emails.

I logged into her account and she has not only deleted all 4 emails but has also emptied the trash which makes me very suspiscious.

Dd1 said she thought it might be XXXX so I have searched dd2's hotmail for that name and also searched facebook but nothing. Dd2 said that yes she thinks his name was XXXX but she insists it was a pic of a man, and dd1 insists the person she is on about is 13yr old boy.

So basically, I have no idea what is going. Dd2 is upset because I have told her off for not telling me before, and also as I have told her i think she is hiding something from me.

What next ??

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Paolosgirl · 25/08/2009 20:45

I'll ask DH - he's the one who knows about the ways of the interweb

PixiNanny · 25/08/2009 20:48

I know that AOHell has a feature with emails, Mum used to have all the parental settings on ours before we discovered IE

joyjac · 26/08/2009 21:57

Pardon my old-fashioned gasp - she's on Facebook at 9??!

NervousNutty · 26/08/2009 23:22

Try reading the op properly joyjac, it quite clearly says that Dd2 isn't on facebook.

Thanks for the advice, my brother will be coming over to sort out making the computer a bit safer for them.

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