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-1000 for trying to do this with age-based restrictions. Kids will get around it. Kids SHOULD get around it. Gating content based on age does. not. work. Source: every teenage kid ever

My 12 year old son was helping his 10 year cousin set up Pokemon Go and he told him to just put anything in the year until it works.

Heck when I was 8 my 10 year old friend and I used to guess the leisure suit larry questions.

There is really no way to fix this, without creating some kind of goverment id system tied to biometrics, followed by the plot of any dystopian scifi.




I told the truth in Pokemon Go and now I can't battle or befriend or send gifts to my under-13 daughter :(


now all the creeps will have to lie and pretend to be under-13 when they want to befriend or send gifts to your daughter :(




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