COPPAKIDS: blog of excuses kids make for getting around website age blocks

Boing Boing reader Arlo Rose points us to something beautiful:

It's a web site by someone that's a community manager at a very large website. They post the ridiculous pleas of kids under the legal age set forth by COPPA (thirteen). Pure hilarity.

"COPPAKIDS: Born too late. OMG YOU GUYS LET ME ON."

[#1 posted by VaginaDrum , February 12, 2009 12:15 PM]

Well, the first one is pretty convincing.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 12:18 PM]

If these are examples of how kids write/spell/think these days I foresee a very sad future.

[#3 posted by TJ S , February 12, 2009 1:42 PM]

Joel, John, Rob, quick! Xeni's invading BBG!

[#4 posted by stratosfyr , February 12, 2009 9:33 PM]

I read a letter to the editor in the paper yesterday which complained about another letter in which someone begged people to stop whining about typos. The reply argued that it was simple to check for grammar and spelling mistakes and there was no excuse for letting any slip through. This counter-argument contained at least two grammar mistakes (a missing "s" on a verb and faulty pronoun-antecedent agreement).

The irony, if it was irony because I'm really not sure what that means anymore, was delicious.

[#5 posted by Mac , February 14, 2009 9:06 PM]

All the guides with ominous titles like 'Keeping your kids safe on the Internet' agree on one thing .. that kids should never post real information about themselves, such as name, address, birthday, etc.

So why are these websites expecting kids to violate this rule by supplying real information? I know - some inane 'age verification' thing. But it's hardly verifying it by just checking if they know a plausible birthday.

It is just encouraging kids to create fake IDs ...

Mac