Anthony Orsini, headteacher at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, sent an email asking parents to help wean their children -- aged between 11 and 14 -- off social networking websites such as Facebook, and to keep a careful track of their text messages.
"Sit down with your child (and they are just children still) and tell them that they are not allowed to be a member of any social-networking site," wrote Orsini. "Let them know that you will at some point every week be checking their text messages online. Let them know that you will be installing parental control software so you can tell every place they have visited online, and everything they have instant-messaged or written to a friend.
Meredith Wearly, a student counsellor at the school, said that about three-quarters of her day was spent dealing with the fall-out from social-networking issues involving pupils.
"It is not hyperbole for me to say that the pain caused by social networking sites is beyond significant," wrote Orsini. "It is psychologically detrimental and we will find out it will have significant long term effects, as well as all the horrible social effects it already creates.
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