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

[Don Jerman]

Yup, my kids have accounts too, but don't know about them.  I'm not sure
when we'll let them use email but it will probably be after they learn to
read :).

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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