Moviestarplanet. Kids online game warning.

claire21

My daughter normally plays moshi monsters etc but asked to play this game last week and stupidly I didnt research the site fully. She wasnt a paying member.

Shes just come down stairs (shes 10 by the way) and said a character just came up to her and said to her " you have sex". She quickly logged off but was upset.

I just goggled it and found threads on mumsnet about this site.

So just incase you were as daft as me to let your child go on this site please search the mumsnet etc threads.

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parentport/a1457510-MovieStarPlanet-Online-Game
Example

Sunny_spell

Agree 100%. We have been there and got a t-shirt. I would not recomment that site to anyone. I wished I said no to my daughter when she asked me if she could play on moviestarplanet.

missindecisive

same here. wish I had paid more attention to it when she first started playing it. She would never tell me what was said to her but she said it was "bad things" and was very upset. I feel annoyed with myself for not checking it out first.

mum2four

I too have been stupid, my daughter saw the advert for this site on a childrens channel so I just assumed it would be ok. I will tell her about this. Do tv channels have any kind of duty of care where advertising is concerned? I'm thinking more the childrens channels.

securityguy

Online games. They are, without any exceptions, morally and aesthetically ugly, designed to suck money from parents in exchange for pouring filth over children. Why on earth do parents permit, and indeed fund, their children doing this?

Robisere

Thank you for that Heads Up, Claire and others.

I am a granddad and my youngest G-D is 7, very bright and uses mum's laptop to play all kinds of games and visits all kinds of sites. I have contacted my daughter to warn her and asked her 19 year old son to block this site in her browser.

I hate these sick !!!!!'s, in my opinion these people are the greatest danger to young people there is. If they did not collect, transmit and publish this garbage, there would be no profit in it and it would not spread.

It is my firm belief that such people should be punished as severely as those who actually produce child !!!!!! and they in turn, should face the same penalties as actual !!!!!philes who attack or assault children. Better still, give them to a few granddads like me. We would know what to do with them, before the 'do-gooders' get a chance to make their feeble excuses for these pond-dwellers.

SmallL

Online gaming, of any sort that includes free typing to other 'real' people should not even be advertised to the under 12's in my eyes.
Its freely open to abuse of many kinds and most under 12's do not understand that its not 'real' an the implications on their own emotional health if they do interact with someone abusive in what they are saying.

It should be up the the parent to make an informed decision that their child is mature enough to have understand that if they want to go in an online environment that they may come across unsavoury types and that they are ready to deal with it.

EDIT-Im female and have played 'adult' targetted online games since i was 11 and am well aware of the communities on them.

Miss_Scrooge_2

securityguy wrote: »

Online games. They are, without any exceptions, morally and aesthetically ugly, designed to suck money from parents in exchange for pouring filth over children. Why on earth do parents permit, and indeed fund, their children doing this?

Woah, chill out.

Online games can be fun and educational - for both adults and children. You just gotta watch out for the creeps because they're all over the internet. That's the sad but harsh truth.

RichardD1970

Sorry OP, not to be too harsh, but why are you letting a 10yr old have unsupervised access to the internet.

My daughter is 15 and has only just been allowed to have her own (cheap) laptop for personal use and even then it is strictly monitored with weekly reports sent by email about which sites visited, apps used, searches performed etc. Also time limits are set so she can't use it after 9pm on weekdays.

Even if you have protection in place, a 10yr old shouldn't be allowed access with out supervision, as these things aren't infallible.

Kathleen5352

RichardD1970 wrote: »

Sorry OP, not to be too harsh, but why are you letting a 10yr old have unsupervised access to the internet.

My daughter is 15 and has only just been allowed to have her own (cheap) laptop for personal use and even then it is strictly monitored with weekly reports sent by email about which sites visited, apps used, searches performed etc. Also time limits are set so she can't use it after 9pm on weekdays.

Even if you have protection in place, a 10yr old shouldn't be allowed access with out supervision, as these things aren't infallible.

Whoa. As a parent myself I can genuinely say I feel sorry for your daughter. Maybe a little too far you could say?

RAS

Newbie resurrecting an old thread?