Grampy said:
I haven’t heard anyone mention a parent’s point of view. The very restrictions you are complaining about are a HUGE selling point with most parents. Most parents are very concerned about their children and teenagers interacting and chatting on line. Regrettably, they should if anything, be even more concerned than they are.
This year, so far I’ve had to help 5 different friends whose children had gotten in trouble on line. In every case they really didn’t know all the ways their children were communicating on line. When they installed good monitoring software they were shocked at what they found. Three had to involve the police because of clear predator/pedophile activity.
In a survey of 500 teenagers across the country, ages 14-18, about computer habit. 58 percent said someone they’ve met online has wanted to meet them in person, and 29 percent said they’ve had a “scary” experience online
One in eight youth ages 8-18 discovered that someone they were communicating with online was an adult pretending to be much younger.
30 percent of teenage girls have been sexually harassed in a chatroom. Only 7 percent, told their parents about the harassment because they might be preventedfrom going online
86 percent said they could chat online without their parents’ knowledge, 54 percent could conduct a cyber relationship.
No, children and teenagers unfortunatly cannot be relied on to pick safe friends to chat with in any setting.
Nintendo’s intention is to provide a 100% safe environment and parents overwhelmingly approve of it being that way. I do not think it likely they will change their policies.This does unfortunately restricts those gamers old enough to not need this level of security. The only solution I can see is perhaps a separate 3rd party online game server such as already exists for games like COD and Unreal. They could have their own system of controls if any.
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Sorry, but why is there a parent control system on the Wii? A chat system can work very well with that. And most people only want to talk on the Wii to friends, that means you allready know the people talking to from somewhere!
