Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see a point here. Will that perhaps be made in: "Runescape exposed part 2"?
Kids can be violent, yes. Kids can be abusive, yes. Have you ever been to a kids playground or schoolyard with your eyes and ears open?
Aside from the usual dangers (adult posing as kids etc) that children face on the internet, I don't see a problem with RuneScape. It is no worse than any other sites on the internet, and a lot better then some. There is only so much you can (should?) do to protect your kids, as hard as that is to accept as a parent. We deliberately never allowed toy guns or other toy weapons in the house, so a the age of about 6 our son was running around with a coathanger shouting "bang bang".
When he was about 10 he wanted to play Runescape. We set definite times for him to play it, and talked to him about being careful around strangers, even on the internet. As it was, he met up with schoolfriends online, even keeping in touch in this way with friends who had moved away. There was never any problem.
You can't expect kids to live in a "My Little Pony" universe for ever, and as much as you'd like to protect your kids, and have them maintain their innocense, sooner or later you will have to come to terms with the fact that your kids live in the world, and that their world is in many ways a pretty nasty one at that.
RuneScape doesn't make it that way, and it's a better introduction than many to the online world.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see a point here. Will that perhaps be made in: "Runescape exposed part 2"?
Kids can be violent, yes.
Kids can be abusive, yes.
Have you ever been to a kids playground or schoolyard with your eyes and ears open?
Aside from the usual dangers (adult posing as kids etc) that children face on the internet, I don't see a problem with RuneScape. It is no worse than any other sites on the internet, and a lot better then some. There is only so much you can (should?) do to protect your kids, as hard as that is to accept as a parent. We deliberately never allowed toy guns or other toy weapons in the house, so a the age of about 6 our son was running around with a coathanger shouting "bang bang".
When he was about 10 he wanted to play Runescape. We set definite times for him to play it, and talked to him about being careful around strangers, even on the internet. As it was, he met up with schoolfriends online, even keeping in touch in this way with friends who had moved away. There was never any problem.
You can't expect kids to live in a "My Little Pony" universe for ever, and as much as you'd like to protect your kids, and have them maintain their innocense, sooner or later you will have to come to terms with the fact that your kids live in the world, and that their world is in many ways a pretty nasty one at that.
RuneScape doesn't make it that way, and it's a better introduction than many to the online world.