Andre,
I just went to yahoo chat, It states right there a whole paragraph on the
left of your screen, in plain english (I might add,) that you MUST be 18 to
enter yahoo chatrooms. And, on top of that Yahoo chat now has a new page u must
go through to get into rooms to verify your age, Did she lie on her application
to get into chat rooms? Everytime I go into a chatroom I have to go to a
website to verify my age is 18 or older in order to get in. I am wondering how
she got past yahoo's security updates in chatroom sites. But, I do think your
idea of a different site for teenage chatrooms is a good one as these are
suposed to be adult only rooms at yahoo anyway.
Kathy
----- Original Message ----
From: Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 7:13:04 AM
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 Yahoo_Messenger@ yahoogroups. 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. Tell her parents to start monitoring what she does and to
NOT let
> her go into chat rooms.... or do they let her hang out at bars too? ;-)
>
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