<p>When my oldest daughter was in jr. high facebook was pretty new, and there was also this thing called my space.</p>
<p>A group of girls got up a nasty facebook page about one of the intimidatingly beautiful girls in the school who had developed pretty early. She was quite beautiful, and I’m sure the girls were jealous, or whatnot.</p>
<p>Because I was monitoring, which I really see as teaching, my 12 year old how to responsibly use the internet, I happened to see this new facebook page as she and I were going through her facebook together. (I always did this WITH them when I did this, not behind their backs). I called the mother of the girl who had started the page, and got her to get her daughter to take it down and I notified the parents of the other girls who were involved, as well as the mother of the girl, who I felt needed to know what her daughter was up against, at that point in her life.</p>
<p>My daughter, I’m sure, really wished I hadn’t done that, but at that point, most of the rest of the parents got involved and we had a big group “talk.”</p>
<p>I suppose the mother of the girl who had started it could have acted like it didn’t matter when I called. But, by the time it was everyone, there was some community pressure to at least discuss it. (This was before any of the newer case law on the matter.)</p>
<p>As for high school? I really don’t think a parent of a Junior in high school is in luck. It’s probably a little too late by then for something like that.</p>