[TriLUG] OT: at what age would you setup email for a child

[Jeff Patterson]

i love it! I got my older son had his 1st email when he was in 3rd grade,
but only because he asked for one. I got him a children's email on yahoo;
yahoo content blocked junk for me. Now my younger son only 1/2 heartenly
asks for one and I neither encourage nor discourage it. He'll get one when
he really wants one. However, the house rule is I get access to it whenever
I want. I occassionly look to see what's in there and, knock on wood, no
issues so far.  Mine haven't discovered girls yet...
On Nov 28, 2014 2:21 PM, "William Sutton" <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> Ah, the internet.  Where the men are men, the women are men, and the
> children are FBI agents....
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Peter Neilson wrote:
>
>  When I was 30 the OS at work was TSS-8, and there was no network at all,
>> just mail local to the system. The other people with mail on the system
>> were high school students.
>>
>> Yahoo Answers allows users as young as 13, but I've seen erudite
>> ten-year-old equestrians on there asking questions about their horses. At
>> least they say they are ten.
>>
>> Ten is a good age, if said child also rides horses. Otherwise 13.
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:37:24 -0500, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>>
>>  As in their own email account.  Gmail has managed accounts so I was
>>> thinking this direction first.
>>>
>>> First time I had an email account was college, and that was 1994.  Things
>>> are a bit different now.  My oldest is 9 right now.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
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