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@ amawanqa, thanx for that link...got wallpapers from there just now! ran out of credits...
It sometimes amazes me what people will spend for content! I get everything free, because I set out to look for it. If I had to download all the games that looked cool at a cost, just to find out they sucked, I would owe more than the USA! Mobile games is tricky business: very few of them actually live up to the hype, and the bad ones are bad, but the good ones are good...
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Posted: 2006-07-28 07:54:33
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In refard to parents neglecting their children:
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19 minutes - how long working parents give their children
A typical working parent spends just 19 minutes a day looking after their children, official figures revealed yesterday.
The startling research shows the devastating impact that working full-time has on children who hardly see their parents.
With less than 20 minutes spent with their parents every day, this is only enough time to eat a quick breakfast together or have a couple of bed-time stories.
The Office for National Statistics looked at nearly 4,950 people over the age of 16 in Britain to find out what they do all day.
The findings make grim reading for working parents who already worry that they spend too much time at work - and too little at home.
Parents who work full-time spend just 19 minutes every day "caring for their own children", according to ONS's "Time Use Survey", published yesterday.
A further 16 minutes is spent looking after their children as a "secondary activity", but this means that they are doing something else - such as the weekly supermarket shop - at the same time.
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Full Article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pa[....]icle_id=396609&in_page_id=1770
The rest of the article goes into the lives of mainly woman and a little about men, and what their day consists of. But this is about the fact that children are not being looked after the way they should...and these parents with the guilty conciences are the ones who let their kids buy games they should not* and give them so much freedom, too much for their own good. The human mind in those years is not mature enough for even half of the situations that gets thrown at it, but kids are expected to deal with this on their own.
* read the following article: serious, but hilarious at the same time(couple of good lines in there)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/grand_theft_auto/
This is just an example of how laws take the power out of parenthood. But at the same time, parents should take responsibility. They should take interrest in the lives of those that came out of them. They should make rules, regulations, and enforce it on their kids. Rules and regulations are like a fence around you: if you keep inside, you will be safe. If you go outside, bad things will/could happen to you, but you should take responsibility for it as you are the one who stepped outside.
Just some thoughts I have been pondering a little. I should maybe do these on my blogs, and just add liks;-)
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[ This Message was edited by: francoislr on 2006-07-28 07:36 ]
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Posted: 2006-07-28 08:24:45
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On 2006-07-27 20:29:42, brix25 wrote:
@786KBR: All my suspicions of YOU magazine have just been confirmed, they are a bunch of reactionaries.
Personally I don't use MXit but a lot of teens do, according to my 17 year-old brother the kids at his high school are totally crazy this app. Why would adullts want to interfere and block their children from using MXit? The last time I checked MXit did not encourage users to post their cellphone numbers in the chat rooms.
Mmmm Brix, the chat rooms are dangerous, just like the internet unfotunately adults take advantage of luring in little girls...
Theres tons of articles of how people got involved and tracked down and stalked etc etc.
But you right its not Mxits fault but naive users that can give it a bad name ;P
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Posted: 2006-07-28 08:32:30
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Nice new avatar there wanqa.
Totally off topic, I couldn't laugh when I read the paper this morning, David Hasselhoff has managed to do it
again. Seems like someone needs to ship him off to Betty Ford quick cause at this rate he will self-destruct soon.
In other news, teenage girls all over the world woke up this morning to news that NSync's Lance Bass came out of the closet.
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[ This Message was edited by: brix25 on 2006-07-28 07:35 ]
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Posted: 2006-07-28 08:32:37
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I agree, there are some really weird folk out there, and the chatrooms are definitely the place to find them... What i find amazing is that some people appear to be rather proud of the fact that they're on Mxit 24/7. Yes, it's uber cool being able to communicate with friends and family whenever you like, "but eish, a man must mos get tired of that bou sooner or later", to quote a youthful caller on BayFM this morning. The in thing over here most recently seems to be dedicating a track to your mxit contacts.
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Posted: 2006-07-28 09:35:00
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On 2006-07-28 09:35:00, Kryptik wrote:
I agree, there are some really weird folk out there, and the chatrooms are definitely the place to find them... What i find amazing is that some people appear to be rather proud of the fact that they're on Mxit 24/7. Yes, it's uber cool being able to communicate with friends and family whenever you like, "but eish, a man must mos get tired of that bou sooner or later", to quote a youthful caller on BayFM this morning. The in thing over here most recently seems to be dedicating a track to your mxit contacts.
See those type of attachments can be dangerous, all the person knows is a username....
It can be anyone...
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Posted: 2006-07-28 10:46:42
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What's happening with Hotmail? I logged into my hotmail account this morning and found that all of my old mail has been deleted from their servers, granted I hadn't logged in forever and they probably thought I had been run over by a train.
Thanks Lawd for Gmail. Hotmail can go suck on Larry Page's hind tit.
@786KBR: MXit (and to a certain extent ProDigits) is/are way too kiddie for me...I prefer AgileMessenger.
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Posted: 2006-07-28 11:03:49
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@ Brix, the closet thing is funny....they are all....but do not want to admit it...lol!
Like said, there are a lot of creeps online, both mobile and not. The only thing is Computers used to be for geeks, and was not popular. The new "cool" technology is exposing so many more people to these dangers. The thing, stupid people will be stupid people. Lots of kids will get in big time crap because of this technology, due to being of an age where they cannot make a descision based on things that come only into play late teens.
I once met someone from an online chatroom. I refused to meet this girl (as she was a little younger, but still underage,) without a parent. From my side, it was just an effort to install a pattern in her not to meet strangers alone. Just because I might be a decent guy does not make the next guy she meets online a decent guy.
The meeting was a disaster: the chick was a freak, and I had a much better conversation with the accompanying adult. But that's beside the point...
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Posted: 2006-07-28 11:10:48
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@ Brix, I agree ProDigits is too kiddie, MXit less so, but for an adult it is another story. My range of friends (me being 23) range from 14-31 (for the closer group) but really it is much widerthan that. Which adds the Gmail thingie: I LOVE GMAIL! It is brilliant, from the interface to the spam recipes on top in the spam folder:-)
Between Gmail, MSN & MXit I am able to be connected to all my friends from one application, also with the ability when crosslinked to be able to (from work) chat via GMail to MXit, making my work setup MSN & GMail, and at home, MXit. Some of my friends come online only at certain times, so I am always covered in quick communication. I do cut myself off from MXit over the weekends and evenings in a sense: i pop in, too many contacts, I leave, unless there is someone I really need to chat to.
Another thing, I have dared it into the chatrooms on MXit. Wow! Can't believe so many mindless horny freaks can gather in one place! Chats there usually goes like this:
(hot(rockhard)male has just logged in)
hot(rockhard)male: hello ladies!
freakaZo3d: ASL pls CuteChick:-)
CuteChick:-): 17/f/dbn/wt
CuteChick:-): 17/f/dbn/wt
hot(rockhard)male: hlo cutechk! wt u up2? wr
CuteChick:-): wnt to c sum cl mtl bnd!
rogerDman: I lv mtal gigs!
rogerDman: we shld mt smtim!
CuteChick:-): yeah roger;-)
CuteChick:-): add me 08X XXX XXXX
At this point every single (ROCKHARD) guy in the room has her number. Very unsafe. There are ways you can send a personal message to a specific user in a room, but it is a HUGE shlep, and few learn to do it.
And I swear, the chats all go like this. Whenever a guy gets into the room it is always "Hello Ladies!", and all of them have very sexual names...
For your own sanity, use MXit as an app to chat to friends, not to chat to strangers. The people in those chat rooms are there for a reason: because they have no social lives, and they are desperate. Think of it this way: if that chick you meet in there is really hot, would she be sitting in a chat room looking for something? If the guy was at all a great guy, would he be single and looking?
The chat rooms in MXit are all about one thing, and it gets dumb really quickly. You can insult the people in there and they wouldn't even know it!
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Posted: 2006-07-28 11:33:30
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' Yo guys!
' Apologies for the long absence - as I mentioned on another thread elsewhere my life has been a wee hectic the last few months. R25K spent or being spent on fixing my car and the resulting lack of transport a lot of the time; new job and acclimitisation to that; and the clinker - my cellphone (trusty P900 that held my ENTIRE LIFE on it!!!) and laptop were stolen.
' So to a large extent I've hardly even had access to the site much, never mind time to reply to things etc.
' I'm trying to make some kind of a come-back now though - not that all the stuff's been resolved yet, but anyways...
' brix - your Hotmail post prompted my desire to help... Hotmail's policy (for quite some time now!) is that if a user doesn't login at least once over a 30-day period (i.e. he last logged in 31-plus days back) then his account, and all the email therein, is essentially deleted.
' Hope that answers your question.
' Don't we love Microsoft? <VBG>
' Anyways. Catch up with the rest of y'all again later (and sooner this time) I hope!
' ~Moi
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