There was heroin & acid trips before there was crystal meth.

If you teach your kids to respect their bodies and to not need that sort of attention from the opposite sex, they won't be posting naked pictures on the internet.

However, that being said - the people that are posting naked pictures on the internet or sexting each other on the cell phones were the girls walking around in short skirts when I was in high school and dropping things so they could bend over... Or the ones who would walk around in their bra & undies in the locker room and then dash out to the gym to get something they forgot.

Grog, I'm older than you by a couple of years & I also did the BBS thing - but was on the internet by maybe 16. I had access in high school, and then a friend that I knew in college gave me his college passwords so I could get on the internet dial up.

I maybe met a couple people from the local bbs... The local high school (I went to a magnet one) ran a bbs, and you could just go to the football games or stop by their computer club and meet a lot of people. There was a commodore users group that held meetings at the library. My parents would let me go to a meeting if they were there.


I've been helping a lot of older people get on the internet lately - and I swear it takes more time to make sure they don't do risky thing with their credit card numbers and fill out every email they get... And in talking to them (they're like 60-70)... underage sex and the rest of that didn't get invented with this current generation.