Hope you’re having fun and that the pregnancy is going well – if the two aren’t mutually exclusive…

How’s the pregnancy going??

I also told her mother to make sure she understands that she isn’t anonymous online to save her getting into a similar situation in the future.

She’s also got herself (and probably a bunch of others using her ISP) a ban… :)

I’m just too busy to deal with this stuff.

I was the same about Mark Hamill – particularly the swamp scene with him and Yoda, sent my little heart a flutter!

I’ve had to research a few band forums (shudder) for my sister’s journo work, and can say with absolute certainty that otherwise plain silly ‘crushes’ are mutated by the level of access the Internet provides…and the kids’ minds mutated as well. This is really an issue for the parents to learn that it takes a bit of IT cunning and a lot of parental respect to prevent youthful obsessions reaching this degree.

Call me a bore, but I hate seeing children loping about with mobiles squashed to their faces or texting furiously, knowing full well they’re going to go straight home and onto the computer/game console. By nature children are already in their own bubble, but this is just keeping them there.

Perhaps Gia might think about doing a hip mom’s approach to children and technology? I would watch, and I don’t even have kids yet.

However, there is a difference between 11-year-old me and Miss ‘Unknown’: I would *never* have started harassing the wife of the object of my affection. I knew that my fantasies of getting together with Mark were just that: fantasies. Not to be acted upon. ‘Unknown’s behavior goes far beyond a simple expression of jealousy by a lovelorn pubescent girl; if she had made just one or two posts and then disappeared, that would have been one thing. This, however, is starting to look like stalking and is worrisome. I hope I’m over-reacting.

I don’t think I was wrong to think he may be gay! ;)