This is my second blog about random technology in our lives. It is about the awesome and intrusive ooVoo :)
Yes, ooVoo is very cool. I really love it. However, when I'm having a personal discussion with my husband, and I think my children are the only other people in the house, and I surprisingly find that there are other 'invisible' people listening, I don't love it so much. This repeat offense has provoked me to create a new house rule; NO OOVOOING UNLESS YOU ASK ME FIRST! Again, it's technology diminishing our privacy. I really don't mean to bash webcam technology. It brings people together all over the world. But it needs to be controlled. Kids need to learn webcam ethics. Maybe that topic should be incorported into their technology classes in elementary school. The Rutgers student who recorded his roommate's relationship with another student should have known that what he was doing was wrong...and disgraceful, and disgusting, and harmful. Technology is moving too fast for parents to rewrite and reinstitute the rules of right and wrong. I don't believe there will ever be a technology that doesn't have a 'con' to go along with its 'pro'.
Definitely a good house rule! We don't ooVoo here, but my kids love to make all kinds of videos on the Mac. I don't even know how to do that myself. Anyway, more than once they've captured me on video in my pjs, or yelling at my 5 year old. I was yelling, and they were hysterical laughing. Nice. Another time, my older kids used a cellphone to record my 5 year old once again, this time having a temper tantrum and screaming her head off. They told her they were going to share it with all the kids at school. I've had to lay down the law, and establish a similar rule--no recording of ANY kind without permission of the person being recorded.
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