I just joined an ORG where a nine year old was participating at the insistence of his brother, the 13 year old host, but without his parents' permission. While we were chatting, the parents found out what the nine year old was up to and ordered him out of the game. The minimum age to be on Facebook is 13 and that is the absolute youngest online gamers should be. If people are younger than 16, they should have parental permission to engage in online games.
I do not believe children have a place in ORGs and they should not be encouraged into ORGs while they are underage. ORGs are online versions of reality games and children should not be in that environment. Social media is very complex territory and people need to be careful with it. Children are so easily manipulated and social media can be used to cause dangerous trouble, so that's why there is an age limit. I am not willing to support anyone younger than 13, including those who will be 13 in the next few months, being a part of online games simply because underage people are unprepared for such an environment.
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you are 30 years old playing a game a `13 year old is hosting. That is a new low
Allison, if you actually casted me for your game after I wasted a whole day making you an audition video like you asked me to, I wouldn't be doing that.
Allison, we didn't know the host was 13 til we got on a GHang and then we found out not only that, but that his brother was NINE. I will not play ORGs with underage people and I stand by that.
