and you have a valid point Ben. no matter how much the prime minister or whoever goes on about the young and protecting them, they still somehow manage to make the wrong decisions. every single time.

The internet contains the same proportion of nutters and nasties as the real world.

But you know that. As we’ve mentioned before, you belong to the first real generation that has been online throughout their life. I think that you’re probably more savy than me. Still, pretty cool that you showed my comic to your Dad… ‘Hi Mr Maddie’… and better still that he cares enough to mention that.

But the thing I think is the most dangerous on the internet is the fact that employers now check you out online. I’ve always been up-front with this website, it contains quite a lot of ‘personal’ information. My name is real and so are my opinions.

So, if I apply for a job it should be pretty easy for the interviewers to read all of this, and I know it’s not to everyones taste.

Now, I made a decision a while back that if this ever stopped me from getting a job I’d be OK with it, but you have to leave your options open… and one of the best ways of doing that is to limit the personal information… pseudonyms, false info and a lack of identifying facts are a good way to do that.

Sometimes it pays to be vague.

Prime example of parents being annoyind-i showed dad this strip and said i was slowly spreading myself accross the internet, and he decided to tell me for the first time ever to “be careful, you don’t know who’s out there” right *rolls eyes*

Thank you Seraphine! just saw your comment as well.

Yeah, society gives us a hard time but admittedly in England they’re pretty much right. we’re all either lazy “chavs” who spend most of their time in bed (occassionally with other chavs) or “emos” who are just sad and lonely. me, i’m a mimo. a vague emo who says “meep” a lot. and owns a squidgy thing.

Thank you! this is like the most awesomest comic strip ever And i feel proud to be the youngest regular reader you know, although *shock horror* i turn 15 next week…

I don’t know why society gives us such a hard time. but it’s not as bad as parents. :p

“Apart from supplying the idea behind this surreal strip…”

As:

“Apart from supplying the idea behind this surreal trip…”

And it worked just fine that way. I actually didn’t notice I’d read it wrong until just now, and I saw the comic when it first went up.

The radical feminists (raise you hand if you were expecting that to come up in this thread) have some interesting things to say about treating children as non-humans. It’s similar reasoning to the second class nature of women: a dominance and control issue.

I worked in a developmental psychology lab for a bit, as an undergraduate, and about the only thing I learnt was that the life time of a child stretches just as far back as the life time of an adult. They have memories stretching back over an entire life, just like the rest of us. There’s a relativity to experience, I think.

Well, I also learnt some unpleasant things about the quality of scientific research in psychology. But that’s an other story.

Actually, thats not true. It’s the same for everyone, kids and adults. Some people don’t have squishy things in their heads. There’s a small percentage who have the wild cats in them. Perhaps 95% of people are great wonderful human beings.

Good luck Maddie, and good show! Capital idea.

Hi easca, I think you’ve got a point there. A lot of people feel like that, but on analysis realise they’re not sure why. I think it’s drummed into you from an early age that your generation is useless… I think this has happened for every generation since at least the 50s.

Although I’ve always kinda hated teenagers for the most part. Especially when I was one. I hated the other teenagers.