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Protect our under 18s?

Hey all. I'm fairly new here. I'm enjoying the site and find a lot of the people on here share some great stories and advice. But one thing I really don't like is the 'how do I look' section.

Although it's great for men and women to be able to get good advice on their outfits etc, I find when under 18s are posting their photos looking for honesty on their looks, they're being ridiculed and/or hit on. I seen one man over 30 call a young girl age 15 sexy... and I've seen other content that doesn't sit well with me.

As I'm sure all the over 18s here are aware, being that young and commented on your looks, good or bad can have significant negative effects for them. Unwanted attention or just to be made feel plain bad about themselves.

Wouldn't it be safer for the young ones to limit photo posting and profile photos to over 18s only?
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Most Helpful Guys

  • It’s very concerning because there may be sexual predators here. I try to advocate for safety when I see someone underage posting anything sexual. The danger is once contact is established privately the abuser/victim possibilities go way up vs a public post. Many times if I even respond I suggest the underage person ask their parents for those and other reasons.

    Welcome to GaG as you mentioned you are fairly new. We need users with your mindset because there are many users here who troll others and may even create underage accounts just to mess with others. So I am hopeful ~33% of the underage accounts are actually catfish or older adults just faking it and trying to troll others. Still good on you for protecting the youth and as in an community the adults should protect those under 18.

    • Thanks very much. I'm glad to see some decent adults on here with the same concerns. I didn't realize about the fake pages. I'll never truly get my head around people that catfish! Thanks for the welcome 🙂

    • On the conservative side less that 50% of the users on GaG are actually who they claim to be and posting actual questions. Over time you will pick up on patterns to weed out the fake accounts.

      One helpful tip is to reverse search their profile image or the images posted in the section you mentioned. Just take a screen cap and use this site to upload : https://smallseotools.com/reverse-image-search/

    • Ha awesome! Thanks!

  • I'm so glad to hear you say that. I'm very, very careful to look at the age before I answer a question. As an older guy, I don't need an angry parent or worse yet the FBI knocking on my door saying I'm a pedophile when I'm the farthest thing from it.

Most Helpful Girls

  • There have been suggestions to Admin that younger (below 18) should not be allow to post any kind of Question. Once a question is out of pen, all are free to comment thereon. The tender age might take exaggerated (positive or negative) view of themselves.

    • Yea definitely, this is what worries me. I'm 33 and I would honestly be terrified to ask people to rate me on that section. It would bother me to be ridiculed so I don't know how such a young one would deal with it.

    • A serious matter for Admin to think over it. It reflects our double standard. On one hand we claim protection to younger people but on the other sexual questions and loading of pics by them encourage their desire.

    • Thanks for MHG.

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  • Gag needs to get rid of the rating post all together especially the rating post of underage girls and the post where other people are posting someone’s photo without their consent asking gaggers to rate their looks and to choose who is prettier

    • Oh yea that's another thing I noticed. Putting up photos of people that are not even on the site etc. Yea I think the entire section needs removing.

    • Yeah. It is correct.

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  • I guess the under 18s can do what they wish. They just need to be aware that every chat webpage will have some weirdos and not to take their comments literally.

  • I think if under 18 posts were automatically annonymized that would at least offer a soft barrier to cyberstalking. The problem with "hard barriers" like what you suggest is that they'll just go and create an over 18 account. Hell, you can't even feel too bad for them now, as i suspect the majority of pink under 18 accounts are actually men in their 30s hoping to gain attention for their far right political views or whatever.

  • Welcome to the internet

  • There’s been some creepy people on here foresure, having said that, I think that underage girls need to learn how to look out for themselves given that they will receive sexual attention anywhere on the internet.

  • it would be better if under 18s can only receive a rate, its what they asked for, it has to be a 1-10 and you could only rate, i think it would be better

  • I was thinking about this, and that would probably be the best. At the very least, I think people under 18 shouldn't be able to direct message or be allowed to post on the "How do I look?" section.

    • Yea I think so too. I get that people can lie about their age easily on this so I'm not sure how that could be dealt with. Maybe facial recognition or only be allowed start an account with Google. I'm no expert on these things though.

  • It is risky the under 18s but you would find that if under 18s were to be restricted they would just set up another account with a false date of birth Regarding the pedophiles chasing under 18s We will have to offer advise to counter act the advances of the wrong type of answer

  • Well I totally agree with you, but it’s the responsibility of the parents to teach their young ones. They should teach them that the virtual world is cruel for them. But parents themselves are busy with other things that they don’t even know what their young ones are doing. Some parents give freedoms to their kids but they should also put limit to what their kids should do.

  • I agree

  • I agree. When you say things like that. its creepy.

  • I definitely agree with you, I never comment on under 18s photos or make sexual comments to them at all , they really shouldn’t post photos for rating because of things like you said

  • There should definitely be some safeguards.

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