Online Gaming

Online Rating Notice

Online-enabled games carry the notice "Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB.

" This notice warns those who intend to play the game online about possible exposure to

chat (text, audio, video) or other types of user-generated content (e.g., maps, skins)

that have not been considered in the ESRB rating assignment.

Most gamers have seen this over and over after some time you start to forget it's even their .

Well what you need to know is that your kids may have contact with a person you may not even

know about and thats not good.

All the major consoles , The Wii , the Xbox 360, and the PS3 all have bilt in parent controls

if you have one step 1 is using them.

Xbox Live Gold

Giving a kid a xbox 360 with a gold account ( so that he or she can play online ) is the worst thing you can do for your child . Yet 90% of parents just buy the 1 year xbox live card and give it to the child in part because that don't understand what that are doing !

If you do this you give your child a all access pass to things like chat , web cams ,and voice chat .

Yes you do need a gold account to play online but a silver account will still let your child use most of the cool stuff on xbox plus it's free.