Actually, it's clearly posted on the window where you choose a chat room.. the "Join Room" window. It's not buried in the fine print of a EULA. Here is what it says: "Yahoo! Chat is now available to users who are 18 years of age or older. User-created rooms are currently unavailable."
Another thing that I understand but have never checked out, is that if your Yahoo ID was registered with your real age (under 18), then you can't get into a chat room anyhow so her parents must have let her register the ID showing she is 18 or over.... another really good lesson for them to be teaching... if you can't do it legally, get a fake ID. If her parents are like most parents, they don't have a clue about what their kids are doing on the computer. I help parents, everyday, to learn more about their own computers and I can see the places their kids are going on the net and the junk programs their kids are downloading. Her parents should be teaching her to follow rules, not break them. If the rules say 18, then the parents should respect those rules or they are teaching their child a very bad lesson in life. Will teens break rules? Certainly! Should parents help their teens break the rules? Absolutely NOT! I use to tell my own daughter this all the time. I would tell her that she might experiment with drugs, booze, etc., etc., but I will never condone the activity and I will certainly NOT buy the drugs or booze for her. I can't watch her 24/7 but I'm not going to contribute to her juvenile delinquency. It is these same parents who show up on the new programs wondering why their teenage son or daughter has disappeared and when law enforcement goes through the computer, they find out the teen has been into all sorts of things they shouldn't be into... all the while, their parents were sitting there ignorant as to what was going on. Sure, what you saw may have been innocent enough but once in the chat rooms, it's just a click of a button to go from the Barbie Doll rooms to the XXX-rated rooms. Unfortunately, the ignorant parents aren't home 24/7 to find out their little princess has switched from talking about dolls and is now cybering with sex predators in the XXX-rate rooms. Far too many parents are afraid to use the N-word. There wouldn't be sex predators in the chat rooms if their weren't parents who were too lazy to tell their kids NO!!!! Sorry if I offend anyone with this truth... but it's the truth!!! Lenny Vasbinder 504-621-1870 FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Y!M] Big problem with recent yahoo messenger update "the computer is in the living room so that her parents can monitor what's happening." As far as you must be 18 to enter chat rooms, eula and all that stuff, allow me to cough b.s. :) If that was the case that fact would be clearly posted somewhere so everyone would know, not hidden in a eula where less 1% of Yahoo users know. Show me someone under 18 who reads eula and I'll show you someone who has no friends. Yahoo puts that in the eula to try and cover there buts when a sexual predator (or even an incident not so serious) happens, but even Yahoo knows the value of the eula in that case, worthless. And other laws etc. come into play for Yahoo to protect themselves. Of course I go by the following, if parents are doing their jobs sexual predators etc. wouldn't be such a problem, but unfortunately in many instances that's not the case. Actually in many cases parents just need to be educated on chat programs and teenagers :) Some actually thing there teenagers are smart enough to be safe online. As far as being 14 and in a chat room, what I saw when I was there was just fine, she goes on and chats with friends she's made world wide and chatting with 8 or so people at the same time, makes a chat room a good place. Straight A student, she volunteers to help other students after class hours, volunteers at the local hospital (helping children who are there) etc. So I would let her too. Of course if I get my way she will be switching over to paltalk where the chat rooms can be moderated by parents. As for the bars, that's a guy thing and some of us did that at 17 or so :) --- In [email protected] <mailto:Yahoo_Messenger%40yahoogroups.com> , "LNVTM1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 14, she shouldn't be in ANY of the chat rooms anyhow. There is a EULA > that states you MUST BE 18 to enter chat rooms. If she was just using YM to > chat with friends, then she wouldn't hear anonymous voice chats from > the rooms. 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