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Allright so here goes, time for my first bout of annoyed ranting.

Almost every time you go into a website that has chat capabilites or is open to people of all ages, or has mature ummm stuff, you run across a disclaimer. You know it, its the whole "If you're not 18 then please step away from the site and go back." thing. You know why they those now more than ever? Its because now we have little kids logging on and exploring things they were never meant to see.

I admit when I was 15-16 I explored the net, if I saw one of those little disclaimers then I just lied. Here was the funny thing though, I knew what I was doing and I was ready to accept the responsibility if I got caught/in trouble for it. Normally I'd just grumble about something like this and then let it slide. But not today oh no, you people, lucky few that read what I have to say, will get an earful.

I'm here at the mall running off a few character sheets (all right ALOT). Next to me is a young girl mixed asian heritage it looks like. Regularlly I'd just shrug and go back to what I was doing, but I notice that this kid is in MySpace so I'm a bit more curious than normal. In a totally me thing, I glance over, alot to see what she is doing. Shes sending a message to one of her friends and shes typing as if she is in her mid-teens. Going on about how someone was trying to steal her boyfriend and how she gave this other girl a bitchslap. She even used the word b***h like three times. The part that really scares me, she looks like shes about SEVEN.

What kind of world are we living in?!?! Shes typing and trying to act like shes a seventeen year old and she looks ten years younger!! Now I'm wondering if the people I normally chat with are actually teenagers or if they're just kid-aged-wannabes.