okay i have recently been grounded of my msn {windows live messenger} for using it while talking to way to many people. {some from which i personally dont know} my parents are being overly protective because now i cant use it ever again. they say i have to find a different way to contact friends without using any msn at all. do you guys now of any other ways other then yahoo to contact friends online? they say i can use a messenger but i cant use yahoo messenger cuz i cant contact any of my msn addy friends! i need help!!
2007-01-22 04:56:59 · 16 answers · asked by xox-Ashley-xox 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Your parents are completely correct. Don't you watch the child predators every week on the news. They are out to get gullible teens like yourself. Here are my suggestions: But first, go hug and kiss your parents for loving you enough to say NO:
1. Study harder
2. Honor your parents
3. Never lie to your parents - they are the only people in the world who care about you UNCONDITIONALLY
Good Luck
2007-01-22 05:03:11 · answer #1 · answered by snvffy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
U will b happy to know that yahoo messenger now has widows live as well.When u add someone it will ask u which one yahoo or msn n 2 other types.When u add the person n put in there e-mail or id user name it will automatically pop up n say if they have yahoo or msn n it will add the person .I have people with msn n yahoo on mine.Your parents r just concerned n for a good reason.There r some really bad people out there n they will pretend to be someone your age use other pictures and make u believe that there someone there not n some will go as far as meeting these people especially teens n kids n they don't tell there parents or anything n just go n then there gone and no one sees them again.If anything u make sure that u have a friend that knows who u r talking to cuz anything can happen.Be careful n try and stay away from people u don't know.
2007-01-22 05:06:40 · answer #2 · answered by too4barbie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me tell you a little story. For a few years when I was in High school I would spend two, maybe three hours a night on MSN and other messaging services, talking to friends from a few different places, a couple from out of country, etc., and what after a few years the novelty had worn off most of my friends stopped using MSN, but I had spent so much time on it that I didn't know what to do without it. Anyway, to make a long story short, I spent the last two years of high school and my first year of college working very hard to try and make friends because I had forgotten how to talk to people without using a keyboard, so, my suggestion would be to either: a) hang out with your friends in person (go over a friend's house, hang out at the mall, etc.) which is really the best way to have friends, or if they're too far away, b) call them every once in a while. I know all about how convenient MSN is, but it can be a little *too* convenient, if you know what I mean.
Also, as an aside, and as someone who still deals with over-protective parents sometimes, there are a few things I'd like to say:
First, you may absolutely hate it now, and for the next couple of years, but by the time you get into college chances are you'll look back and think that maybe your parents weren't as big of jerks as you thought they were, because at least your parents care about you enough to make the effort to try to "protect" you from what's out there (even if there is no danger out there). There are a lot of parents these days that really don't care, and many of the children of these parents grow up to have very short, unhappy lives.
Second, and I don't want to sound like your parents here, but please, for your own sake, be careful on the Internet, because it's *way* easier to lie on the Internet, and even if you don't, there are lots of people that do. I shudder ever time I hear the news stories about one more young girl getting abducted by someone she met online who said he was a teen-age girl but who was actually a 40 year old guy. I mean, if you're chatting with people you know from school or work, and that's the only people you're chatting with, then you're probably safe (but not necessarily 100% safe), but if you're chatting with people you've never met before, make sure you don't always take what they say at face value, because sometimes they might just be lying.
2007-01-22 05:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by russell.ault 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latest version of yahoo messenger DOES allow you to add MSN contacts.
But hey - be careful, dont talk to strangers.
2007-01-22 05:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Paradise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your parents are doing the responsible thing. There are an alarming amount of pedophiles, rapists and plain old sick individuals that use the internet as a medium for locating meeting their victims. The majority of them are ages 20 to 50 years old (not exact) Your parents are doing what any good parents would do. They are by no means being overly protective.
2007-01-22 05:02:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they arent being overly protective - but you may think they are. You said you are talking to people that you personally do not know! This worries them - just turn on the news and listen to all of the kidnapping and all! and alot of these come from people meeting on the internet! Just calm down - your parents love you and want to protect you - but i dont think they are being overly protective! If these people you were talking to are your friends then call them! just dont call anyone that you do not know! thats very dangerous! just wait - in time you will find out they are right and they are doing whats best for you
2007-01-22 05:00:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would go on yahoo b-cause u can always make new friends. i have the same issue, but my friends at school go on yahoo messenger to talk and my parents won't let me. they also won't let me talk to guys ether. there was this one guy who i talked to on the phone for 1 1/2 hours and the next night my mom came in and said, "u can't talk 2 him anymore" their is nothing wrong with him. she just don't like him b-cause he has big feet if you know what i mean. he is only 2 yrs older than me and i don't understand why i can't talk 2 him. he don't have a email address or anything. just a cell phone. i am not allowed on my space ether. u r not the only child of a protective parent!! believe me! my parents check my bill and if they knew i was on here, i would be dead, or if they knew that i text the guy on my friends cell everyday at school, b-cause i don't have text..................anyway, I'm sorry and i feel u!
2007-01-22 05:06:31 · answer #7 · answered by kels 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AIM 6.0 allows you to import your buddies from yahoo, and msn (windows live)
2007-01-22 05:00:37 · answer #8 · answered by buildingadesertx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you typed clearer, we could understand you better and help out easier. I think you either want to email friends, or you could use AOL instant messenger. If you parent's don't want you using it, don't use it though. It's just that simple.
2007-01-22 05:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. J. Argon M.D. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your parents are doing the right thing.. You may think is overly protective, but thats their job.. We all have to go through it, or went through it. I suggest email them..
2007-01-22 06:02:48 · answer #10 · answered by charlie2900 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋