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I have been cursed to be born into a family of six kids, thus making me pretty much crazy. However, some good comes of this: I have a wide range of experiences, from hair catching fire to my mom barbequeing with gasoline (true story). So, I've grown quite a repertoire of knowledge, experience, and wisdom to share with the world! Oh, and I can type in complete sentences, which pretty much rocks.
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I have a 12 year-old sister. I made her a myspace a while back and made it private. She didnt know how to do anything on myspace. Well now shes almost 13 and she is completely addicted to myspace. More addicted to it then anyone of us i bet. She has atleast 5 myspaces of famous people that she made and is pretending to be them and telling everyone she is&& she talks to every single one of the people that Message her. I have told her manny times that she will end up talking to the Wrong person&& he will seriously hurt her.I told her that she has to be atleast 16 to be able to have a myspace and talk to people that are not her friends. She doesnt care. I have blocked myspace && she found away around it. I have told my parents and they tell her not to get on it. She pretty much tells them im not or screw off. She has no respect for anybody in my family and moesnt care what anyone tells her. Myspace has caused her to spend endless hours on the computer. SHe is on from the Second she wakes up to the second she goes to bed. And she will pretend to go to bed and then when everyone in the house is a sleep she will wake up and get on the computer. No matter the time of day. We have a password on the computer but she found it out By watching what my dad typed in.
Im sorry this is long but she needs help.
Please dont just say talk to herand tellher what will happen if she talks to the wrong person. Again she doesnt care.
&& if i tell my parents that she wakes up and gets on she will say no i don't even tho they believe me she doesnt get into any trouble. We usedto have this rule only 30 minutes on the computer at a time but she doesnt go by it but if say i was on the computer and she wanted on she would say kim you have been on for 30 minutes your turn is over.
Yea not cool.
Any answers or advice is wonderful.
It seems to me that your sister is, as you put in the title, having a literal addiction problem. Many people think that people can only be addicted to drugs or alcohol, but internet addiction is also a serious problem in today's technologically-based society.
Your family needs to take the computer away for awhile, take it apart, and put it in a box somewhere so that she cannot possibly do it without someone noticing. Also, as with all all unhealthy addictions, the person with the problem needs to get help. There must be a reason she is doing this, but it's hard to say what that may be. She may not feel accepted by her friends, and this may be a way for her to feel better about herself, or it really could be anything. But it's important that she gets help and that you determine what that reason is, then deal with it.
Good luck!
(You can email me if you need any more help. My address is on my column, and I check it multiple times a day.)
(Rating: 5) Now that you said shes doing it for a reason There may be a reason. And ill tell you and maybe you can help me out but id rather not say it in here. Taking the computer apart is not a option because parents take college courses.