# 8yo daughter wants to make own website - best ways to be safe about it?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 4, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8yo-daughter-wants-to-make-own-website-best-ways-to-be-safe-about-it/591474 "2011-08-04T15:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8yo-daughter-wants-to-make-own-website-best-ways-to-be-safe-about-it/591474/21 "2011-08-07T04:05:04Z")

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> [@Erdosain](#):
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> You are crazy if you spend actual money on this when you can get everything you need for free (and more user-friendly) from Blogger or WordPress.

With the exception of the domain name. But does a little girl making her first website really need her own domain? Especially if you aren’t sharing it with people she actually knows?

As for a Facebook clone for kids: I’d look at kid’s websites, like [neopets.com](http://neopets.com) or [clubpenguins.com](http://clubpenguins.com). Sure, they have a game thrown in there, and have less options, but they also have more kids who would actually see your daughter’s work and comment on it. And yet they’re moderated, so it won’t be mean.

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8yo-daughter-wants-to-make-own-website-best-ways-to-be-safe-about-it/591474/22 "2011-08-07T04:39:58Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> With the exception of the domain name. But does a little girl making her first website really need her own domain? Especially if you aren’t sharing it with people she actually knows?

Not a personal domain, but her own site on the family domain. That would make it clear that [www.suzy.derkins.com](http://www.suzy.derkins.com) (or whatever) is a member of a very web-savvy family, and that the parents take an active role in her on-line life.

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8yo-daughter-wants-to-make-own-website-best-ways-to-be-safe-about-it/591474/23 "2011-08-08T15:08:09Z")

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> [@Erdosain](#):
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> You are crazy if you spend actual money on this when you can get everything you need for free (and more user-friendly) from Blogger or WordPress.

Looks like it’s going to be WordPress, in fact. Everyone has given great advice here. Thanks very much.

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