http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/17/facebook-youtube-parents-watch-web-language/
The article talks about how sites such as Youtube, Facebook and other sites have language on them that may not be kid-friendly. One of the examples the article gives is when a mother talks about how her 8-year-old was on Youtube looking up a Justin Bieber video and some of the comments on the bottom of the video displayed curse words. I dont think that is something any parent would want their child to see or think about, especially at a very young age.
However, there is not much people can do to prevent things like this from happening on a normal day-to-day basis. One of the negative things about these kinds of sites and the internet in general, especially noe, is that alot of what is on the internet is user-generated. This usually means that not much about what is up can really be wathed that closely to prevent kids from looking at it. The most we have now is software or settings that block certain websites or beg able to flag a comment, or report stuff on these kinds of sites. Unfortunately even this is not enough for some parents to make sure that their children are not watching or reading inappropriate stuff.
Its sad to say that there is not much we can do to permanently stop things like these from happening. With the way the internet is and how it is set up, inappropriate stuff is just one of the things parents have to deal with. Probably one of the best things to do for a parent who doesn’t want their child from getting to inappropriate stuff is to monitor their children while they are on the computer and make sure you have settings set up. With all that information and people online at any given moment, its really hard to make sure that what your children are able to see is parent-approved.
This is one of the hardest things to prevent as it is everywhere. If you go on the Daily News Website and read a few interesting articles on there, you will usually see a few comments that would not be appropriate for kids to see. This is something that a lot of websites tend to do where if they have a article or video, they give the audience a chance to comment on what they read or said.
Like you mentioned in the post there is not much people can do to prevent these type of things from happening. The only suggestion I see possible is if all of these websites which allow comments would disabled that feature and stop allowing comments from the audience….Until then we will continue to read language on these websites which allows the comment box.