i just got my new laptop!! hell yes!!

[tinfoil tiaras]

At my school, you have to have a laptop once you enter highschool. So i just got mine. And i'm UBER exited! it's really nice && i <3 it alot!

NEW LAPTOP. HELL YESSS.

I just wanted to share my glee with all of y'all... :)

[Mutley]

1. Damn, I wish they'd made us get laptops.

I'd prolly still have that sucker. :o

[tinfoil tiaras]

Hahaha

but when you take em to the school, they install a goddamn internet filter on it!! :mad: Why do they want to control what websites we go to AT HOME? Their power only extends to the school, and nowhere beyond. I think i have a civil liberties issue on my hands, yet the government can do nothing about it b/c it's a private school...damn.

But i'm still glad i got the laptop though! :) :)

[Mutley]

3. See if you can get your parents to say something about that to them.

Did your parents pay for the laptop?

[tinfoil tiaras]

5. yeah, they paid for it

but you see, my mom WANTS the internet filter-she's ALL FOR this. Crazy, i know. I mean, you don't need a goddamn internet filter to protect yourself on the internet-you just need some commen sense. Like not posting "hOtT pIxXx" of you in your bikini in a suggestive pose.

I hate internet filters. They're so goddamn unconstitutional...:mad:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Isn't your mom on DU?

Those filters filter out plenty of perfectly safe websites.

Anyway, check out www.peacefire.org

[tinfoil tiaras]

9. Yeah, she is

but she's somehow been caught up into the whole "INTERNET FILTERS KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE" bullshit...:mad:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Fortunately for you, the only people that can't beat filters...

are the idiots that insist on installing them.

[Critters2]

12. Crazy, I know

but if I were the mother of a teenager, I'd want 'im to have an internet filter, too. I've done enough work with adolescents to be concerned about their judgment. All the kids I know will grow up to be great and wise adults, I hve no doubt. But they're not there yet.

And I want 'em to get there!

[tinfoil tiaras]

2. Hahaha

but when you take em to the school, they install a goddamn internet filter on it!! :mad: Why do they want to control what websites we go to AT HOME? Their power only extends to the school, and nowhere beyond. I think i have a civil liberties issue on my hands, yet the government can do nothing about it b/c it's a private school...damn.

But i'm still glad i got the laptop though! :) :)

[Book Lover]

4. You *have* to?

What about the parents who can't afford it, or who believe that high schoolers should not have their own computers? Do they just have to go scratch?

[tinfoil tiaras]

6. Yeah, we have to...

but my school costs like $9000 dollars a year to go to, so I guess they figure that if you can blow almost $10,000 on your child's education, you can blow like $1000 ($2000, if you buy em from the school, which i didnt. mine was only $1400 or so) on a laptop. I guess they'll give you one for free if you REALLY cant afford it (like going to my school on a scholarship or something)...but i dont know.

[Book Lover]

8. Ah. I see. (nm)

[jobycom]

11. Uh, Congo-rats! But, Uh...

Giving out your family's general financial status online isn't much safer that posting HOT PIXX in a suggestive bikini... :)

I agree on the internet filters.

[tinfoil tiaras]

13. I'm just giving a general idea

of what kind of people go to my school, b/c the person asked (in a way)...

[jobycom]

14. I know, just sayin'

People troll these sites for people to run cons on. Not a high probability, but still there. Not to mention stalkers, and no telling what else. Just wisest to keep personal info to a minimum. A lot of people now know your parents' basic income level, how much they spend on you, some of their fears about the Internet. Some people here apparently know your mother as a poster. With just that info, some people could come up with something. Just sayin'. No one expects it, that's how come it happens. If nothing else, you don't want Agent Mike to know! :)

[tinfoil tiaras]

15. Yeah, I see....

Lately, I've been trying my best to majorly limit my personal info and such. That's why I don't have a myspace and my xanga (link in sig) only has my first name & gender.

Ahh...Agent Mike!! :scared: :P