ie-dvd players behind car seats to keep them occupied instead of showing them attention, living beyond their means [having both members work to jobs to pay for all their luxuries while kids are in daycare because wife HAS to work], etc....

Keeping the kids occupied in the back seat is a good thing. I can't stand the jackass parents that are more focused on the kids in the back seat instead of the road they are driving on. Children are a major distraction in the car. I would think a parent focusing on driving and keeping the kids safe is pretty good parenting. That's were dvds and games come in.

I'm pretty positive most families that have both parents working, in fact need the income for cost of living, not for cost of luxuries. I don't know your story, but putting ONE
kid through school, grade school to college, is quite costly. Ideally, a stay at home parent seems like a good idea, but in todays economy, it's just not that common.

 

I wasn't trying to start crap--just pointing out that it's not lack of parenting that causes underage drinking. Kids that drink underage are smart enough to choose not to do it if they're smart enough to get their hands on it in the first place. If someone's to blame it's the kids. Had I been caught drinking underage I wouldn't have blamed it on my mother.

 

Well, I'm 23 going on 24 in a few more days, and I know I'm legal to drink, drive, and smoke. (not the drink+drive part though), and I recently changed my profile to limited and really cleaned it up.

Why?

A fellow at work had a pretty interesting Facebook and Myspace and cost him his job.

I'm not chancing it.

In fact, one of these days, I'm about to delete it -- it's a friggin' nuisance.

 

here i thought there was reason to worry. but im 22, and a single father. I can have my beer.

 

I think it was here but a while back there was a discussion about bosses and potential employers checking their employees' Facebooks. Technically it's illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on personal life, but it does happen regardless.

I've also cleaned mine up a lot. I'd delete it but sadly it is an easy way to stay in touch. I'm tired of everyone seeing who can put up the most pictures from the party the other night. No one cares about how drunk you got. /Mini-rage over

 

In HS, I was talkin to one of my teachers about something with Myspace and she was tellin me how if any of the teachers have a Myspace the school checks it to make sure they don't have any of the students has friends, pics of them drunk or partyin with the kids. Anything like that. I guess I can understand it to a point for teachers.

 

I guess I'm taking the 19 year old approach but I don't see why there is such a need to try and bust minors. How much time would it take to find and convict a minor through facebook? Think of what that cop could be doing with this time, and maybe help solve crimes and arrest people with more of a purpose and meaning than this.

I've seen more kids/friends get caught and simply had to poor the drink out or have their parents come get them. This is what should be done.

Heck last week a buddy of mine got initiated to his fraternity so all of his older brothers took him out all night and he ends up getting an MIP for walking back to his dorm and spent the night in jail. None of this is going to show up on his record so what's the real point in handling the situation like this. He father found out and the next day turned out to be the best bonding experience he's ever had with him, and he was mad but happy for his son since he walked instead of drove back.

Been to a college campus lately on a gameday? You couldn't right tickets fast enough for all the minors drinking.

 

You just have to be smart if your drinking underage, you should never be out
boozin and driving ever but I mean im twenty and my friends and I would get together every weekend and drink, we always had sober drivers and still had lots of fun. We were all being responsible and most of our parents knew that, but it really came down to was that some parents are not ok with drinking underage at all and there kids were the ones getting over the top drunk and making stupid choices because they knew that if something happens they may not be able to do this the next weekend, and the rest of us were responsible and respected that we were having a privilege kinda sliding under the radar and if we ruined it then were done. But I just finished a fifteen page lab report and Im gonna have a couple sierra nevadas

 

Thats for sure.

If you ask me, cops should put more effort towards stopping people from driving home drunk after tailgating, instead of trying to stop underage drinking. Between underage drinking and drunk driving, drunk driving is by far more dangerous.

 

i wasn't signaling out underage drinking

 

Facebook's terms of use are not a law. It is not illegal to violate those terms. It is up to Facebook to toss you out for violating them. Just as the mods here can toss you for violating the terms of use here.

Most of us drank underage but we did not pretend it was right nor did we blame our parents for our poor choices. Yes, bad parenting will lead one to make more poor choices but even with the best parenting most teenagers are going to make wrong choices once in a while.

 

Drinking under age does not cause problems. It is drinking for the wrong reasons and also getting totally wasted is when the problems begin. Drinking for some can take allot of discipline, and that is another thing about drinking underage. We learn any discipline while growing up?

 

I cancelled all my social network accounts.
Big Brother already knows too much about all of us.

As an older guy I suggest you do the same.

 

True...I guess I was just relating it to going through a house without a search warrant. Good point.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lori_Drew

I wonder if the cops have permission from Facebook to do this?

mblouir's post made me think about it
https://www.f150online.com/forums/3981705-post42.html