Age Verification

What happens to my Teen Second Life account when I turn 18?

Teen Second Life is for people 13 to 17 years of age. When you turn 18, you will become eligible for transfer to Second Life proper, where the age limit is 18 and older.
To move to Second Life from Teen Second Life, you may be asked to send us:

* A copy of a school or government-issued ID showing your date of birth.
* A driver's license, passport
* Or military ID are all acceptable forms of identification.

Send us a scan, photocopy, or fax and we will process your account and wish you a happy birthday!
When you arrive in Second Life, don't forget to send Blue, Claudia Linden or Matthew Linden an IM. They will make sure you are invited to the Teen Transfer group and receive all the associated perks!
To send us a scan:

* File a support ticket at http://secondlife.com/support
* Attach a scan or photograph of your identification

To send us a photocopy by mail:

* Linden Lab
945 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

To send us a fax copy:

* Send your fax to us at (415) 243-9045

Process:
1. About a week before you are going to turn 18, submit a support ticket letting us know you have a birthday coming up. Happy 18th Birthday! Attach a scan or photograph of your identification and provide the names of your alts as well.
2. Start taking care of business in TSL.

* If you are the Founder of any of your groups and you wish to keep them open, make sure there is another owner in the group.
* Partnerships will not transfer and you may want to dissolve it before you move to SL.
* Take care of any land you own in TSL. What happens to land I own in TSL when I turn 18?

3. Will my inventory transfer to SL?

Generally, Yes!
4. Will my forum access transfer?
Yes, however it may take a few days to complete this transfer.
4. How do I get to SL when I have been transferred?
I guess it is time the mystery is revealed. Blue Linden puts on talons and swoops into TSL where you are picked up and carried (all the while he is doing his infamous double barrel rolls) to a giant crater. In one valiant swoop, Blue drops you into the hole where you will find a miners pick. Take the pick and start digging your way to SL.

OK, I'm kidding. When we transfer you to SL, your next login will put you into the Second Life grid. It's not quite as fun as digging your way, but it's a lot faster!

You will receive a response to your support ticket letting you know the transfer has been completed. Once you log into SL, contact Matthew Linden for an invitation to the Teen Transfer Group via IM or ticket. We'll provide you with a region location where you can build and use to set-home for a while.

Well here's the thing, the only form of acceptable ID I have is my birth certificate, which is buried under a pile of other long since forgotten documents that only my mom can navigate. And "I'll look for it in a minute" is what she said yesterday.

You're 18, an adult now, your birth certificate is one of the most important pieces of paper you will ever have and will need countless times over the next 50-100years, it's time to be responsible for it yourself, get a waterproof folder and start your critical document collection now and guard it with your life, thecrap you will go through legally if you loose it or it ends up in the wrong hands will drive you nuts

You're 18, an adult now, your birth certificate is one of the most important pieces of paper you will ever have and will need countless times over the next 50-100years, it's time to be responsible for it yourself, get a waterproof folder and start your critical document collection now and guard it with your life, thecrap you will go through legally if you loose it or it ends up in the wrong hands will drive you nuts

@Colette
It most likely has nothing to do with whether LL can count or not, and everything to do with federally required *document keeping*.

That doesn't make sense.

In fact they already KNOW the person is turning 18 or they wouldn't even know to switch them grids.

So they must have it recorded in some fashion.

And there is no required documentation for 18 year olds, if there was there would be no such thing as unverified accounts on the adult grid.

What should happen is a Teen av should turn 18 get shipped off to the adult grid and become an unverified normal account.

Then they can verify like anyone else.

There should be no suspension at all.

That makes perfect sense Colette... Therefore..... LL wont have thought of it.

That makes perfect sense Colette... Therefore..... LL wont have thought of it.

Definitely Imogen. I think so too, but I'm guessing there's something preventing them from being able to. Maybe something to do with them simply not being able to create an account with the name they had?

How's this for a theory. Player under 18 can simply stop being the av they were on the teen grid (and will be kicked off as they are more worried about adults on the teen grid than the other way round it seems).

They can't register as the name they have always had, because that name is not available to use. So if they are not fussed about still being the same av name they just sign up as an adult and they are good to go.

If they do want to stay with the name they chose then LL have to manually change something to upgrade them ... and this ties in with my workplace where there are financial limits for accounts which need the player to send in their Driver's Licence/Passport and the statement for the credit card they are using in order to have their limits raised (which is stipulated in our Gaming Licence and we can't do it any other way).

The more I think about it, the more this seems to be the rational explanation.

I agree Cherry with most of what you said, but i would have thought just sliding them through would be simpler and *less* labour intensive than what they are demanding of the OP? providing there were some sort of automated routine set up to do it.


imogen