Sigh

[tygati]

*sigh* For those of you who haven't heard: Livejournal now provides the ability to filter adult content.

What this means for us writers, I haven't made up my mind about yet. -__- Blah.

Here's the affected settings page.

I can't lock my journal because I have so many lurkers and people without journals reading... I also personally object to giving out my full birthdate for various privacy reasons, so wtf do they expect to do about those of us who won't provide our year of birth, hmm? :P Oh, I see, they assume you're a kid. >.< Fine then. *sets frigging birthdate to 1901* :P Not like y'all don't know how old I am anyway; I've mentioned it several times. *shrug*

The stupid teenyboppers need to stay on Myspace. -_-

Wtf-ever. For now, I think I'm ignoring it.

Comments

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

Someone else on my flist wanted to know why they couldn't just have buttons that you marked to say you were either over 18 or under 18. (And they could do the same with over 14 or under 14.) Wouldn't that make more sense than asking people to cough up info they are reluctant to cough up?

I mean, practically everything you see on TV about the net harps at you to not give away personal info, so it makes sense that people might be reluctant to put up things like birthdates and whatever.

*throws things at lj* I really, really, really hate that 6A bought them up. They've done nothing but be a royal pain in the ass. If parents want to be little nanny nazis when they're watching what their kids are doing on the net, then maybe they should actually, I don't know, watch their kids while they're on the net. I fail to see why it's my responsibility to keep little Janie from poking her nose into things she's been told she shouldn't be poking her nose into. That falls into the realm of being a parent. The internet was not made for children. It's an adult world.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

That's my problem as well. I am not here to babysit someone else's kids. A written warning on my part that this story contains such and such or is not suitable for people under a certain age is the only obligation I feel. After that, it's up to the parents to monitor what their kids do. Not mine. I especially don't like being told that I'm have to self-monitor.

And if I hear one more parent spout the "It takes a village to raise a child" line, I'm going to sit down with their kids and have a long, long, long discussion of about gay sex, porn, and BDSM and why I think all of those are OK in society. After all, if I have to raise a kid then I damn well get to impart my values to them.