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Eight year old kids might hear swear words when playing mature rated games online.
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Jastra
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-03-31 14:46:38 UTC
Jhagiti Tyran wrote:
In a shock report ABC news (from the US) reveals that you need to actually monitor what your kids get up to when playing games online. Ignoring the issue that the kids shouldn't really be playing them anyway it advises parents that they need to keep an eye what they get up to.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116553-TV-News-Report-Warns-of-Cyber-Bullying-on-Xbox-Live

Why the hell would you be letting a kid that young play online in the first place? And why in hell would you let kids that young play games like that anyway? This is a case of total parent failure.


much bigger problem in your local mcdonalds queue in my experience.... or just walking down the street
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#22 - 2012-03-31 18:13:47 UTC
Whitehound wrote:
Slade Trillgon wrote:
'Play' has always been the prefered baby sitter; there is nothing new there. The relatively new epidemic is that parents are too scared to let/force their kids to play outside.

That is pretty much nonsense. Those parents who are too scared to send their kids outside are usually those who also watch over everything their kids do. It is about parents who do not care for their children.


So parents that use consoles to babysit their children also watch everything they do?

Get your arguments situated WH.


Slade
Justin Cody
War Firm
#23 - 2012-03-31 21:10:58 UTC
yep we dont allow anyone under 18 in our alliance or teamspeak server. Because we're a bunch of miscreants
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2012-04-02 09:41:02 UTC
Justin Cody wrote:
yep we dont allow anyone under 18 in our alliance or teamspeak server. Because we're a bunch of miscreants


Heh, I was once on a teamspeak with some "allies", and they forbade swearing and such since they had a minor with them. Not that my guys really cared, but we soon found ourself denied access to the "common" chat room :P
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#25 - 2012-04-03 01:33:07 UTC
[quote=Florio]It's not quite cut and dried. Parents of a certain age who missed the whole internet thing might just not have any reason to understand the nature of online gaming. They may just see some sort of extension, which they don't have time to research, of a computer game which entertains their child. The report, I guess, is aimed at just nudging those parents towards some sort of awareness

There's also the question of just what sort of violence is acceptable to young children. Would you let a 9 year old play EVE? If he blows up a single rat how many people is he killing? Probably more than in an entire COD session. I'm not saying the OP is wrong, but it's not clear cut imho.[/quote


There was a time when I believed no one could be that ... uninformed. After working as a TECH SUPPORT in a place where I was the "computer guy" and a Psychologist that tended to the SERVER (yes, I was SysAdmin) only because I knew how to enable CMD in windows to bring up a console to check pings ... well, I don't blame anyone anymore.

Good thing about that gig was that I stopped working as a Psychologist and realized how much free time most Tech related people get. I also learned about VMWare Virtual Machines setup and running plus Server Virtualization, and handling Win2008 Server servers, which I know mix well alongside my Verbal Techniques and Rogers Client Centered Therapy method for soothing stress related issues ... meh, only because I was already in the payroll and could do both jobs for the same pay. :*(

So yes, people need to be informed. People , normal run of the mill people, usually bother more with their regular jobs, kid related issues like social gatherings (if female) , families, money issues and perhaps a mistress or two (if male) in Latinamerica than actually bothering to check up facts in the internet about what online gaming is or what it entails

Normal people scare me and I scare normal people when I begin talking about Internet Spaceships and pew pew and Killing orcs with my Legendary Item weapon in the name of the Dwarven gods and Clan

I also like pie.

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
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