This is really important for anyone who plays Second Life.
Here is a great article by Miss Trix Braveheart on Second Life's new age verification policy!!!!!!!!
Some good changes have been made. But you want to be up on them!!!
All the information is here right after the jump. Just click READ MORE please.
Age Verification Changes in Second Life
By Trix Braveheart
What an incredible breath of fresh air. Gone is the age verification system that had people from all over the world sending passport, driver's license and SSN information for verification...yea!
To replace it a new age verification process, and this may sound familiar, you enter your date of birth, check a box verifying that it is true, then submit.
Yes, just that simple.
Go to your Dashboard, you'll find it under the Me menu, then Account and on that drop-down(mine always seems to be open to Account) choose Age Verification. There you'll find the boxes to enter your date of birth. If you have already given this information to Linden at some point, the boxes will be already filled in, mine were, then, put a checkmark in the box verifying that the information is true and submit.
Submitting this information is the first step, now go to your Preferences in the viewer (Ctrl+P) or (Me menu, Preferences, General) and change your preferences to allow you to view all content (General, Moderate and Adult).
So, there you are. If you've avoided checking out the incredible part of Second Life that is Adult because you were concerned about giving your private information...that bar has been lifted. Come in and see what we have to offer.
I think you'll like it.
See you in Second life!
-Trix Braveheart
Thats some great news!!!! It took me forever to age verify, I gave up for a long time lol... To only found out why it wasn't working for me was because I was trying to use the wrong address.....
ReplyDeleteThis makes it so much easier now for everyone to verify.... So the down side is maybe kids will verify with their accounts O.o
I'm willing to bet this has something to do with a drop in bringing in potential new players. I can't imagine someone unfamiliar with Second Life feeling comfortable with the sensitive nature of the old age verification process. It's easy to see that it's no doubt turned many away from joining Second Life....a world that isn't easy to get used to anyways.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the old system was pretty bad. I had to keep entering older and older addresses before it accepted one. So i got verified in the end by being forced to enter the wrong info! The correct info was rejected. lol
ReplyDeleteThis won't keep under age people out of adult sims..but i guess they have their asses covered legally..
in order for us all to see some asses uncovered. :P
easy as baby now, for all kids !
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Yes, it's true...14 y.o. boys will be able to access SL. But. Linden was only fooling themselves if they thought the system kept them out. Within a day of their original Age Verification system, a list of names, addresses and ID information was available online to circumvent it. I think I tested it with Elvis Presley's information and it worked.
ReplyDeleteIt's Mom and Dad's responsibility to monitor their kids, I don't envy them the task; kids can find much worse than SL with even less effort.
Thank you for the link Jenna.
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