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[Donna]

old news but this is funny, you know that dangerous underground culture stuff.
found it on digg, incredible crazy world we live in.

[Stu]

the news report is funny... simply cause its such an over-reaction

i mean, if someone wants some privacy online whats the bloody problem? if im having a conversation with someone about something personal on MSN, and a parent/brother/sister walks in the room ill close the box. how is that different than writing something like 'p911' just to make sure a mate doesnt send you 'dude i tapped your mum last night!' while shes standing behind you!? if my mum asked to read my conversations like that lads in the video id tell her to pish off.

and are young children really stupid enough nowadays to go meet up with random people theyve known for a few hours, knowing full well that they could be peadophiles?!

even though i despise l33t speak and people who use it, i do replace letters with numbers when emailing friends from my work email though, just to try get past the email filter if im using certain words.


but imo a more serious problem - what happens if children start writing l33t speak on thier exams and in school instead of using english?

we could literally have millions of derranged l33t speaker running around saying stupid things like 'im g0nn4 pwn you and r0x0rz your sisters world!'.

[squr3l]

pfft that report is just trying to scare parents into interaction with their children
so what if we dont want to write out every word when were typing fast

[Donna]

Stu, on Nov 27 2006, 06:44 PM, said:

and are young children really stupid enough nowadays to go meet up with random people theyve known for a few hours, knowing full well that they could be peadophiles?!

but imo a more serious problem - what happens if children start writing l33t speak on thier exams and in school instead of using english?

we could literally have millions of derranged l33t speaker running around saying stupid things like 'im g0nn4 pwn you and r0x0rz your sisters world!'.

partially quoting you stu,

sadly yes happens all the time kids are vunerable and open freely, they show it on a TV program here called Dateline to catch a predator.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912603/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12502825/

Scary

[Bug]

Zenom, on Nov 27 2006, 05:44 PM, said:

whats a nifoc! omg im a teen i should know. SHOOT ME

I'm sure it won't mean the end of the world to you

[Adαm]

That is ridiculous. It really annoys me when something gets blown out of proportion. Stupid people

[l3lueMage]

there was on where cops acted like a 17 year old dude on myspace and met up with the girls, and they were pretty surprised to see it was a cop, was kind of funny

[Faken]

Stu, on Nov 27 2006, 12:44 AM, said:

i mean, if someone wants some privacy online whats the bloody problem? if im having a conversation with someone about something personal on MSN, and a parent/brother/sister walks in the room ill close the box. how is that different than writing something like 'p911' just to make sure a mate doesnt send you 'dude i tapped your mum last night!' while shes standing behind you!? if my mum asked to read my conversations like that lads in the video id tell her to pish off.

When I was growing up, if I wanted privacy I'd have to move out and get my own PC. If I told my dad to piss off if he asked to see what I was doing on a PC under his roof, I would have gotten a slap upside the head and the PC would be decorating the front street in several hundred pieces.

Dan

[l3lueMage]

lol my parents never ask to read my stuff, sometimes they ask who I'm talking to and I just say...a person, unless they actually know the personin real life then I will say the name..

Otherwise yea XD They don't really care o_O They trust I know what Im doing

[Bug]

l3lueMage, on Nov 28 2006, 06:41 AM, said:

lol my parents never ask to read my stuff, sometimes they ask who I'm talking to and I just say...a person, unless they actually know the personin real life then I will say the name..

Otherwise yea XD They don't really care o_O They trust I know what Im doing

Yeah, it's the same with me, I guess. Although, I'm using a crap laptop at the moment because my computer's motherboard died. So, it takes forever and a day to load a webpage, let alone trying to start MSN Messenger

Edited by Bug, 27 November 2006 - 02:45 PM.

[Bug]

Okay then, let's look at this from another perspective, shall we?

I'm assuming that quite a few of the people here are parents or will soon become one. Now, does it bother you if you heard this ad or that you heard from someone else that your children are trying to keep their lives away from you? To me, I kind of understand what the problem could be. But yeah, I do think they are over reacting with this ad. Nonetheless, what do you people think? I mean, I'm not married or anything yet but kids are known to do stupid things so I could be concerned a bit.

[l3lueMage]

Yea I would be worried to...
but I shall keep hiding my online life xD I would get in so much trouble if they found out everything talked about in chats and stuff



Especially when talking to Faken...on his crazy random rampages! He goes crazy and Im like omg parents better not walk in and see what he's typing

Edited by l3lueMage, 27 November 2006 - 03:00 PM.

[Faken]

LOL! OMG p911z0rs!!

[Donna]

l3lueMage, on Nov 28 2006, 08:59 AM, said:

Yea I would be worried to...
but I shall keep hiding my online life xD I would get in so much trouble if they found out everything talked about in chats and stuff

<_<

Especially when talking to Faken...on his crazy random rampages! He goes crazy and Im like omg parents better not walk in and see what he's typing

lol I minimize the screen if speaking with Faken and I have guests here and he's in one of those rages, never ever message him when his hockey/football team has just lost a game.