Underaged brother

He hasn't even been using our internet access lately. He uses my neigbors'. I have no right to ask them to cancel their internet.

My 16 year old son piggy-backed off the neighbors wireless connection to play games in his room with the school's laptop. I had already refused to give him the wireless key and blocked the mac id when i found out he was plugging into the network directly. Now he was not playing sl, but it is easy to figure out. So the computer was sent back to school and i made sure the neighbors secured their network.

That said, if this is remotely true, then block his access, change computer passwords, make sure all neighbors are running secured networks. [Resolved]

Kids decide they need some money and their parents are out for a day, so they take a gun and commit armed robbery.

It's not my or my parents responsibility to prevent an underaged player from playing SL. It's LL's responsibility.

Prior to using the word EVERYTHING, please consider all the circumstances. Children are living spontaneous creatures with minds of their owns. They don't learn everything from their parents and can assess situations and make decisions of their owns. That includes doing very negative things such as doing drugs, crime, or choosing to join a mature environment. ...

Were you lying or is there an explanation? I'm still betting on lying.

Hi, my brother is 16, he's been playing second life since he was 14. Since he's been playing Second Life, he's had no social life, participated in very few social activities, and has been failing in school. In other words, it destroyed his life. He's a very "successful" scriptor ingame though. He works for some important names ingame and no one has a clue that he is underage. He has downloaded a voice changer, uses a mature vocabulary, and has worked in the porn/sex industry. Since he's been playing the game, he's tried to become more controlling of me, not that he's really done anything to really piss me off aside from acting like a mental retart by picking his nose, licking his fingers, rubbing his dandruff off, and pushing me from time to time. He's been frequently talking about suicide over the summer and I'm just tired of this shit. My parents already called Second Life and I don't know if they closed his account or not, but this verification or whatever the hell they do to see if you're underaged or not, it's not working. It's ridiculous how they can knowing let underaged kids play this game. If my brother does suicide, I'll attribute it to Linden Lab and could file a wrongful death suit. Someone please give me some advice on what to do. Thanks. I won't name him here because it'll probably be against the rules.

Prior to using the word EVERYTHING, please consider all the circumstances. Children are living spontaneous creatures with minds of their owns. They don't learn everything from their parents and can assess situations and make decisions of their owns. That includes doing very negative things such as doing drugs, crime, or choosing to join a mature environment. Kids say they're out doing a project and they're out smoking or drinking. Kids decide they need some money and their parents are out for a day, so they take a gun and commit armed robbery. Obviously the kids are responsible but so are those that helped in those circumstances. Those who provided the drugs are responsible. Those who provided weapons are responsible. So are those who provided access to a mature environment.

I got an idea, why don't you get off your duff and TALK to your brother, do something with him versus whining like a 5 year old on some web forums? You know...be a big brother for once.

Just sayin...

Hi, my brother is 16, he's been playing second life since he was 14. Since he's been playing Second Life, he's had no social life, participated in very few social activities, and has been failing in school. In other words, it destroyed his life. He's a very "successful" scriptor ingame though. He works for some important names ingame and no one has a clue that he is underage. He has downloaded a voice changer, uses a mature vocabulary, and has worked in the porn/sex industry. Since he's been playing the game, he's tried to become more controlling of me, not that he's really done anything to really piss me off aside from acting like a mental retart by picking his nose, licking his fingers, rubbing his dandruff off, and pushing me from time to time. He's been frequently talking about suicide over the summer and I'm just tired of this shit. My parents already called Second Life and I don't know if they closed his account or not, but this verification or whatever the hell they do to see if you're underaged or not, it's not working. It's ridiculous how they can knowing let underaged kids play this game. If my brother does suicide, I'll attribute it to Linden Lab and could file a wrongful death suit. Someone please give me some advice on what to do. Thanks. I won't name him here because it'll probably be against the rules.

Hi, my brother is 16, he's been playing second life since he was 14. Since he's been playing Second Life, he's had no social life, participated in very few social activities, and has been failing in school. In other words, it destroyed his life. He's a very "successful" scriptor ingame though. He works for some important names ingame and no one has a clue that he is underage. He has downloaded a voice changer, uses a mature vocabulary, and has worked in the porn/sex industry. Since he's been playing the game, he's tried to become more controlling of me, not that he's really done anything to really piss me off aside from acting like a mental retart by picking his nose, licking his fingers, rubbing his dandruff off, and pushing me from time to time. He's been frequently talking about suicide over the summer and I'm just tired of this shit. My parents already called Second Life and I don't know if they closed his account or not, but this verification or whatever the hell they do to see if you're underaged or not, it's not working. It's ridiculous how they can knowing let underaged kids play this game. If my brother does suicide, I'll attribute it to Linden Lab and could file a wrongful death suit. Someone please give me some advice on what to do. Thanks. I won't name him here because it'll probably be against the rules.

It's not my or my parents responsibility to prevent an underaged player from playing SL. It's LL's responsibility. If they want to run a mature game, they need to take extensive measures to prevent children from accessing the game.

you sound more and more like a minor yourself, The way you phrase things and your analogy's just prove my point ever more. Until you hit the age of 18 in the US your parents are responcible for you unless they have emancipated(sp) you and then you are techanially an adult. but this is not the case here as you have stated. Please do not blame linden labs for poor parenting skills. thank you

maybe there is no brother.

Please specify how parents can prevent it.

He hasn't even been using our internet access lately. He uses my neigbors'. I have no right to ask them to cancel their internet.

God, I am sick of people doing something stupid and then blaming anyone but themselves.

maybe there is no brother.

Prior to using the word EVERYTHING, please consider all the circumstances. Children are living spontaneous creatures with minds of their owns. They don't learn everything from their parents and can assess situations and make decisions of their owns. That includes doing very negative things such as doing drugs, crime, or choosing to join a mature environment. Kids say they're out doing a project and they're out smoking or drinking. Kids decide they need some money and their parents are out for a day, so they take a gun and commit armed robbery. Obviously the kids are responsible but so are those that helped in those circumstances. Those who provided the drugs are responsible. Those who provided weapons are responsible. So are those who provided access to a mature environment.

maybe there is no brother.