I want to introduce my child to online social networks but how best to explain some of the risks involved? Thought I’d start with a song…

This is a rewrite of the traditional folk song “Sloop John B”, famously covered by the Beach Boys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58) although Cap’n Tom Jones deserves a mention for his singing attire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQeHavCfPg

LYRICS:

We joined a social network.
Me and my best friend, Bert.
Around that walled garden
we did roam.
Surfing all night.
Got into a fight.
I had so much fun,
I don’t wanna go home.

I got a message from Jen,
my girlfriend from way back when,
but now she just won’t
leave me alone.
What did I say?
Why does she haunt me this way?
She’s nice ‘n’ all but
I wish she’d go home.

Then there’s that guy named Ray.
He took me to a crazy partay
and he took lots of photos
with his cell phone.
Now everyone’s seen
me doing that… thing.
I’m tired of getting laughed at.
I wanna go home.

Then there’s those men in black.
They won’t get off my back,
ever since they gave me
that emergency loan.
How do they know
every place that I go?
I’m getting kinda scared now.
I gotta go home.

But now my whole family
has signed up, just like me.
It’s the only way
I keep in touch with my mom.
It’s part of our lives.
How did we ever survive?
Now we’re in the network,
we’re not going home.
Once you’re in the network,
you can never go home.

Social Network B

A nerdy singer-songwriter playing geekulele - mostly humorous ukulele songs about the web and other geeky topics. 

Social Network B

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