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

[Reginald Reed]

My kiddo is on the autistic spectrum and hasn't asked for an account
yet (she'll be 12 in a couple of weeks), but when she's ready,
hopefully she'll appreciate the fact that I registered her
FirstNameLastName.com many years ago.  Who knows if it'll be cool when
she's ready :)

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jeff Patterson <pattersonjeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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