Children. Be very, very afraid.

Lied about their identity: As a 22 year old:
Anyone who hasn't fabricates a detailed pseudonym at this point is not tech-literate. I say this through a BugMeNot account, because I don't need tot jump through hoops to satisfy your marketing department.

I learned to do this at the age of 10 or 11, when the Geocities page I constructed was wiped off the map. My crime? Geocities had aligned with Lycos, and I suddenly had to create a Lycos account in order to access my account. I told the truth about my age. Lycos created the account, and then told me that I couldn't do anything with it, because under their interpretation of COPPA they had to verify that I was 13 in order to send them information. They wouldn't register me (or trust that I changed the age), or anyone with my email address or matching a significant amount of personal information with me, and the email had to be the same as the one I'd used to register at geocities with: My geocities/lycos account would be of no use to anyone. All my self-tought html vanished in a snap of bureaucratic indifference.

Well, screw that.

I've been making up names and information ever since.

Would you feel secure knowing that your daughter was going to tell the complete truth about her name, age, and location to every scumbag in a chatroom?; Posted by: shoktai@... Posted on: 10/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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