Generation "Friend Me"
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There is a phenomenon going on right now in American like no other time in history. It seems as if not even a few hours goes by, let alone a day, whereby the average teens does not click a button to accept or send a friend me request on Facebook, or to send or receive a tweet on Twitter, or to quickly craft one of the 3600 text messages sent out each month on average by todays youth.
Teens are flocking in droves to be liked or to be followed and to feel as if they fit in and are part of something special. They are willing to, in essence, bare it all on the internet.
They are willing to share who they are, where they live, their personal contact information, what they like to do, where they like to go, what their hobbies are, intimate thoughts about their personalities, what music or movies they like, things going on in their lives daily or in some cases hourly, and on and on and on.
Mark G. Pollock
Mark G. Pollock was raised in Shaker Heights, before moving to the Chagrin Falls community, an eastern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Mark has been in the financial services industry for over 33 years and has consulted with many start up businesses around the country. Mark has been active in the non-profit and charitable communities from donating his time on boards, personally volunteering, to helping to raise funds for working capital and endowments. Over his career Mark helped placed over $5 billion dollars of Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) and is currently involved with developing innovative strategies to help non-profits with their capital funding programs, wealth transfer for high net worth families and athletes, and funding plans for governmental entities. Mark enjoys his family, traveling, golf, paddle tennis, and writing and speaking at various conferences around the country on the topic of “protecting our kids.” Antonietta Pollock was born in Montecalvo, Italy, a small town on the outskirts of Naples and the Amalfi coast. At the age of 12 she immigrated to the United States where she met Mark. She studied and earned a license in cosmetology in 1978 before marrying Mark and raising 3 boys, Adam, Christopher, and David. Antonietta has been active in a number of charitable organizations and has devoted most of her adult life to her home and children. Today, she is involved in a home based business offering an Internet travel and shopping portal and is active in promoting skin care and beauty products through her Cose Belle enterprise. Antonietta enjoys traveling to her hometown in Italy, playing tennis and paddle tennis, cooking, making new recipes, and visiting her 3 sons.
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Generation "Friend Me" - Mark G. Pollock
© 2011 Mark G. Pollock. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
First published by AuthorHouse 2/25/2011
ISBN: 978-1-4567-1826-8 (e)
ISBN: 978-1-4567-1827-5 (dj)
ISBN: 978-1-4567-1828-2 (sc)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010918972
Printed in the United States of America
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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to our three children:
Adam, Christopher, and David…we love you !
Acknowledgments
We would like to pay a special acknowledgment to all of the parents out there that have devoted their lives to giving birth, raising, and loving their beautiful children!!!
Contents
Introduction
1 The Most Precious Gift in Life
2 Growing Up in America
as a Baby Boomer
3 A Parents Biggest Nightmare
4 The Big 3
Cyber Bullying
Sexting
Sex Predators
5 Is Sexting
Child Pornography?
6 The Statistics Don’t Lie
7 Chat Rooms
8 Social Media
9 Facebook, Love It or Hate It…
It’s Here to Stay!
10 What Is the Role of Our Schools?
11 Can You Change the Culture?
12 The New
Birds and the Bees
13 Is This Big Brother?
14 What Do I Do Now?
15 Tools for Parenting
16 Cloud Parenting…
A Call To All Parents!
17 Cloud Parenting
18 8 Points of Light
19 A Final Word to Parents
Acknowledgements, Disclosures, Sources, and Commentary
Introduction
There is a phenomenon going on right now in American like no other time in history. It seems as if not even a few hours goes by, let alone a day, whereby the average teen does not click a button to accept or send a friend me
request on Facebook, or to send or receive a tweet
on Twitter, or to quickly craft one of the 3600 text messages sent out each month on average by today’s youth.
Teens are flocking in droves to be liked
or to be followed
and to feel as if they fit in and are part of something special. They are willing to, in essence, bare it all on the internet.
They are willing to share who they are, where they live, their personal contact information, what they like to do, where they like to go, what their hobbies are, intimate thoughts about their personalities, what music or movies they like, things going on in their lives daily or in some cases hourly, and on and on and on.
If you are reading this now and are a parent of one of these young kids, you may be one of the many in our generation that simply don’t know how to handle this new generation of digital kids.
You have no reference points, may feel like you do not have many resources to turn to, and there may not be a whole lot of people with whom to share positive stories. To make matters worse, technology seems like it is moving at the speed of light and tomorrow’s problems have yet to be invented, but will soon be here.
It’s only been in the past several years that we have learned about cyber bullying
and kids taking their lives in gruesome ways, or teens sexting
nude photos of themselves and sending them to their boyfriends or girlfriends and then being charged with child pornography, or sex predators’ stalking your kids on the internet in hopes to
LMIRL" (lets meet in real life).
THE STATUS QUO IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH ANY MORE!
Our kids are the most precious gifts we have ever been given, and we should not let technology or the addiction to the new social media
hype take them from us and rule their lives. Parents need constructive tools to equip themselves to adequately protect their children. It’s not, as popular belief may suggest, up to our schools, or our churches or synagogues, or our counselors, movie stars, TV stars, or law enforcement or even our friends to be in charge to help our kids…its up to us…We the Parents.
This is the plain and simple truth.
I hope this book in some small way provides you with a few ideas or help motivate you, The Parent, into some form of action. Today’s family unit needs to be of utmost importance in today’s culture and the starting place to make a culture change.
Take care, good reading, and hold on to your seat!
Mark & Antonietta
1
The Most Precious Gift in Life
Over my adult lifetime, I have traveled over one million miles on airplanes, have been to all but four states in the USA and have spent time in over 20 countries. I have met and spent time with billionaires, CEO’s of public companies, presidents of universities, teachers, pro athletes, politicians, closely held business owners, government officials, hourly plant workers, unemployed workers, the homeless, non profits, entrepreneurs, and of course other moms and dads.
I wouldn’t say that I have seen it all, but I have certainly seen a lot…from the poverty of the outskirts of Egypt to the amazing riches of all that the America has to offer. I have seen the best life has to offer and also the worst. I have owned and flown on private planes and golfed some of the best courses in the world. I have hoped my checks would clear some weeks to just pay my bills and make ends meet. I have seen cancer take loved ones far too early and I have seen friends celebrate their 100th birthday.
But, with complete and total certainly, there is one experience in life that far surpasses all others and that fabulous joy is watching the birth of your child. Antonietta and I have raised three fantastic boys, all of whom were born in the same suburban hospital in an eastern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. I was blessed to be there front and center for all three deliveries. Each one had it own sense of drama and excitement, but at the end of the day, watching our young baby slowly come out of the womb, with all of the anticipation and emotions, and then breathe his first breath…WOW, that is one experience that will forever top the rest and I one that I will never forget.
There isn’t even a close second. No vacation, no trip, no enchanted land, no luxury house, no fancy watch, no boyfriend or girlfriend, no fat bank account, or any other material possession or life experience, will ever come close to that of watching the miracle of a child being born.
God absolutely knew what he was doing!