"Second Life" is NOT Teen Safe!
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[As posted to the comments to Second Life why my son, 15 yrs old, was canceling his account]
My son "Red Dae" was approached by TWO different ADULTS on his second visit. When he complained to one of your adult monitors, he was banned from Second Life. The monitor refused to listen to my son, claimed he was paranoid, and denied that his contact with adults in Teen Second Life was real. Already feeling emotionally violated, your monitor made matters worse, obviously caring more about Second Life's profits (via their paying perv adult members) than a child's well being.
My son returned to Second Life to show me what had happened, and that same "black & white" robot was still in the "Welcome" area. Apparently she did not see us pop back in because she was talking with 3 other adults about my son's interaction with her. Within a minute though, they all saw my son's character standing right there, listening to every word, and the other 3 quickly vanished. NONE of those 4 had "Linden" as a last name to identify them as adults, all were posing as teens. In my son's rage and anger, he used the f-word a few times. Then a Linden-named "mediator" appeared and without the slightest attempt at seeing what the issue was, he kicked my son off. Later we received an email stating he was kicked off for violating the usage agreement. Apparently the usage agreement says you can't swear, but says nothing about being a perv adult hitting on kids, so therefore they don't take any action against them.
So, the reason my son (and I) will NEVER use or recommend this crapware application and environment is because...
1. They have proven that they support and DEFEND the hidden adults in the teen area.
2. Refuse to listen to teens with real issues and complaints. There is NO LEVEL OF ANY SECURITY to protect the kids.
3. Further increase a child's trauma by telling them they are paranoid, and what happened didn't, so as to PROTECT the abuser and label the child as a liar.
4. Lie to each other about what really occurred to cover their own ass, thus spreading lies about the child... c'mon, how cold and callous do you have to be to do that?!
5. To test Second Life's security, I have logged on 3 times, an adult freely able to chat and interact with teens on any topic; proving my child's accusations about the ease of pervs using Second Life to chat with kids. Not only is it EASY, but it allows for adults to buy huge portions of land and build private "homes" for private conversations, and to build places for teen amusement and attraction. Second LIfe is perv heaven!!
Posing as a teen, I still have some land in the teen area and will be building on it as the focus and experiment for an article in a major magazine about child care and safety. I thank my son for bringing Second Life to my attention. My editor believes this will be a huge awakening for parents, as well as for our naive teens, and I expect it to be the source of numerous safety articles about similar web-based games in the future.
My son, nor any of our friends and relatives, will ever be on here unless it is to assist me in my research and exposing all of the dangers of your site to children for a national publication.
My son "Red Dae" was approached by TWO different ADULTS on his second visit. When he complained to one of your adult monitors, he was banned from Second Life. The monitor refused to listen to my son, claimed he was paranoid, and denied that his contact with adults in Teen Second Life was real. Already feeling emotionally violated, your monitor made matters worse, obviously caring more about Second Life's profits (via their paying perv adult members) than a child's well being.
My son returned to Second Life to show me what had happened, and that same "black & white" robot was still in the "Welcome" area. Apparently she did not see us pop back in because she was talking with 3 other adults about my son's interaction with her. Within a minute though, they all saw my son's character standing right there, listening to every word, and the other 3 quickly vanished. NONE of those 4 had "Linden" as a last name to identify them as adults, all were posing as teens. In my son's rage and anger, he used the f-word a few times. Then a Linden-named "mediator" appeared and without the slightest attempt at seeing what the issue was, he kicked my son off. Later we received an email stating he was kicked off for violating the usage agreement. Apparently the usage agreement says you can't swear, but says nothing about being a perv adult hitting on kids, so therefore they don't take any action against them.
So, the reason my son (and I) will NEVER use or recommend this crapware application and environment is because...
1. They have proven that they support and DEFEND the hidden adults in the teen area.
2. Refuse to listen to teens with real issues and complaints. There is NO LEVEL OF ANY SECURITY to protect the kids.
3. Further increase a child's trauma by telling them they are paranoid, and what happened didn't, so as to PROTECT the abuser and label the child as a liar.
4. Lie to each other about what really occurred to cover their own ass, thus spreading lies about the child... c'mon, how cold and callous do you have to be to do that?!
5. To test Second Life's security, I have logged on 3 times, an adult freely able to chat and interact with teens on any topic; proving my child's accusations about the ease of pervs using Second Life to chat with kids. Not only is it EASY, but it allows for adults to buy huge portions of land and build private "homes" for private conversations, and to build places for teen amusement and attraction. Second LIfe is perv heaven!!
Posing as a teen, I still have some land in the teen area and will be building on it as the focus and experiment for an article in a major magazine about child care and safety. I thank my son for bringing Second Life to my attention. My editor believes this will be a huge awakening for parents, as well as for our naive teens, and I expect it to be the source of numerous safety articles about similar web-based games in the future.
My son, nor any of our friends and relatives, will ever be on here unless it is to assist me in my research and exposing all of the dangers of your site to children for a national publication.
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