I'm not scared of Momo but yeah it worries me what could happen because of it. Those 2 Wisconsin girls trying to kill their friend because of the Slender Man comes to mind. Blame parents for sharing stuff on the internet all you want but I don't buy that being the real problem. Kids will hear about this stuff or stumble on it one way or another and some can't handle it. I won't share it with my kids because I don't want to scare the **** out of them for no reason. I might have a more vague talk about bad videos and what to do if they see them. Could be overreacting but I'm fine with somebody thinking I have a stick up my ass when it comes to the well being of my kids. Just out of curiosity, do you have kids?
Yep 3 of them, and do you even know the story of the slender man, and the 2 girls in Wisconsin.
I've had to defuse this **** with my oldest daughter constantly, yes she was terrified when everyone was telling her about the slenderman, which was a hoax, it was a scary story on a forum that people added to randomly, like a campfire story. Those girls used it as an excuse, they claimed it was a real person, that someone online was telling them to do things, like the hoax was told. When in reality it was a hoax made up about the story that was being told on a website for horror stories.
Now today my daughter tells me she is worried about momo, and that someone is going to Hack into my other 2 kids youtube videos and tell them to kill themselves. IT is all Fake. And I had to defuse it because people are sharing something that is fake and making a story a fake made up hoax into something real.
Do I worry my kids will see something on their kindles or on one of our other devices playing Youtube videos, or watching Nick online. NOPE. Literally if something comes on that my kids don't like they scroll to the next one in 2 seconds. Do I think some rando is going to magically going to hack into their Kindles and tell them to kill themselves, Yeah not really.
I guess every time I see this BS on FB I realize it is just that BS, but it Pisses me off when I see dozens of people sharing the same **** then my daughter starts worrying about it because people are to stupid to realize its fake or do a little research and realize someone took a picture made by a graphic artist and made up a story to go along with it and spread it to a few people on FB and Boom you have mass panic. Going through life scare of the boogie man is not something I choose to do and trying to shelter my kids from an imaginary threat is something I don't plan on doing either. That is why I actually take 2 minutes to look into these so called threats.
Not every post on FB, not every meme, and not every story you read on the internet is real, not all of them are truthful and most of the time they aren't especially if politics are involved. If you think they are, I have some used siding for a spaceship I will sell you.
