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help setting up teen account
Jax Huskerdu
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 250
10-09-2007 09:56
I have a 14 year old cousin trying to set up a SL teen account. He registered with his mom and tried to download, but keeps getting a "you must be 18 to play Second Life" message. They told me last nite that they're trying to go to big bear island at set-up, so I retraced the steps and see that it also gives options for the L word, Avatar Island, and several others on the main grid. Do they just need to go to "skip this step" when setting him up, or are they doing something wrong. It was confusing to me as well, but I couldn't go furhter w/o setting up an actual account. Can anyone help?

TY. :)
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Join date: 29 Jul 2006
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10-09-2007 10:28
skip this step doesn't work either :(

I have my son begging so I final y gave in. and tried for 3 hours to register him it goes to the main grid stuff like avatar island. and skip this step goes back to the sign up page with the chosen avatar name available again over and over from every link seems you cant sign up a new teen account. wonder why so many are on the "adult" grid...you can do 100 avatars in an hour if you want.
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Ava Glasgow
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Join date: 27 Jan 2007
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10-09-2007 11:27
I know you are probably doing this, but just to make sure... are you signing up through the Teen Second Life site?

http://teen.secondlife.com/
Jax Huskerdu
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 250
10-09-2007 12:16
They did go throught the teen site and went round and round as described by Distilled1.
It boggles my mind! It does seem easier to lie at the moment using Mom or Dad's card. What a bummer. It seems like it would be a great opportunity for kids to experience other cultures and exchange ideas. I certainly wouldn't let him go through the adult grid.
Is there maybe a direct URL that one could use to actually download the teen version or any other work-arounds? He's gonna be so bummed!
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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10-09-2007 14:38
you could try this.... (I don't have a cell phone so can't verify this way)

use the regular adult signup page, skip the logon location, it'll take you to name page, make sure to use the right birthdate and it'll flip you to the teen side for RL name address etc

to get a particular teen gric logon location
using the regular client, edit the shortcut to
"D:\Program Files\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe" -url secondlife://Andorra/128/128/0

change andorra to a known good sim in the teen grid... if bear island is actually named such then
"D:\Program Files\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe" -url secondlife://Andorra/128/128/0
Blue Linden
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Join date: 11 Jul 2005
Posts: 3,311
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10-10-2007 08:44
I'm sorry that you've had trouble signing up a teen for TSL. Currently only SMS is enabled so a cell phone with a US carrier is required to make an account. We appologize for the inconvenience and hope to have credit card verification back up and running soon. In the meantime email me at [email]blue@lindenlab.com[/email] with the name of the failed account and I'll try to help.
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