Could this be why nobody visits my LiveJournal anymore?
The submitter is right -- the margin of error that sites like these have before they alienate kids with the attention span of a greased weasel on crystal meth is razor-thin. It's not like most of them have invested any significant amount of time on their page; the same blinking yellow text on a bright purple background with Celine Dion screeching in the background can be recreated in The Next Great Social Networking Site in approximately three minutes.
Sure, you'll have to rebuild "your network", but most youth would ten times rather do this than conduct all of their (potentially sensitive) discourse on a site where they know that their parents are listening in.
Not to pick nits, but if you don't support your nation during time of war, then, yes, you are unpatriotic.
Of course, there is a difference between "supporting your nation" and "supporting an ill-conceived invasion of a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us, with absolutely no plan for the post-Saddam era and an absolute inability to draw lessons from history and conceive just what kind of nightmare it could turn out to be". But you already knew this, right?
now politicians and parents won't be able to pin the blame on video games the next time some brat does something stupid.
Naw, in that event the politicians would just say "See! This game is so warped and evil that it enticed these children to break the law just so that they could play it!" The age restriction won't even factor into it one bit. How long have kids 17 and under been restricted from going to R-rated movies? That didn't stop all of the moralists from blaming Columbine on (among other things) the movie The Basketball Diaries, an R-rated movie.
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Could this be why nobody visits my LiveJournal anymore?
The submitter is right -- the margin of error that sites like these have before they alienate kids with the attention span of a greased weasel on crystal meth is razor-thin. It's not like most of them have invested any significant amount of time on their page; the same blinking yellow text on a bright purple background with Celine Dion screeching in the background can be recreated in The Next Great Social Networking Site in approximately three minutes.
Sure, you'll have to rebuild "your network", but most youth would ten times rather do this than conduct all of their (potentially sensitive) discourse on a site where they know that their parents are listening in.
Not to pick nits, but if you don't support your nation during time of war, then, yes, you are unpatriotic.
Of course, there is a difference between "supporting your nation" and "supporting an ill-conceived invasion of a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us, with absolutely no plan for the post-Saddam era and an absolute inability to draw lessons from history and conceive just what kind of nightmare it could turn out to be". But you already knew this, right?
now politicians and parents won't be able to pin the blame on video games the next time some brat does something stupid.
Naw, in that event the politicians would just say "See! This game is so warped and evil that it enticed these children to break the law just so that they could play it!" The age restriction won't even factor into it one bit. How long have kids 17 and under been restricted from going to R-rated movies? That didn't stop all of the moralists from blaming Columbine on (among other things) the movie The Basketball Diaries, an R-rated movie.