Sorry, but that argument doesn't hold water. You've never run the country either, but come election time you still vote on the next president based on how YOU feel the country should be run, and whether or not your choice is in agreement (more or less) with one of the candidates. Using your argument, you shouldn't be allowed to vote since you've never run a country. Or a city, a small town, or probably even cub scout meeting for that matter.

You also aren't a soldier, and probably never will be one, but I bet you have strong opinions on this war we're in, and whether we should or shold not be there.

I could give a hundred other similar situations. I've actually been around long enough to see grow from a baby, and partially help raise my now 20 year old niece, as well has being around long enough to see (and hear all of the little trials and tribulations) most of my friends and other relatives raise kids. So I'm not 'blissfully unaware' and completely ignorant of parenthood. Not to mention, I've actually been through childhood all the way to adulthood personally.

And I still mainitain, kids don't really need a cell phone to survive, and turn out safe and well. What if they'd have never even been invented? Would all the children go poof, and die off?

Most don't give their age, but you can pretty much tell they look underage. And I don't spend much time there. I've actually spent about a grand total of an hour there once, so I don't just hang out there all the time being a whistle blower. And to report it, I think I would need to sit there with some webcam recording software and record it, then send it as proof, which opens me up to having child porn on my computer. Not something I really want to do. They don't just leave their previous naked sessions there for people to come by and see, while they go off to school.

The world isn't THAT much different. Just more gadgets that make things like this easier. Sick and twisted things will be opening up more and more, since kindergartners will now have cell phones with cameras, to send nudies to people ... personally I don't think a kindergartner needs a phone. That's what the adults who are paid to watch them all day are there for, to handle emergencies as well as teach, just like they did when I was a kid. And see, I turned out safe and sound. But just imagine how sexually 'mature' at a way younger age I'd be had I been forwarding and getting naked pictures of myself and friends starting as young as kindergarten, all through grade school, junior high, and high school?

You might want to take that battle up with the government then. They seem to think it's old enough to drive a car all alone, and very possibly kill an entire van full of people. Full families potentially, or themselves, and even friends they're driving around with them, jamming the music, texting and talking on their cells, barely paying attention to the road ahead of them. We also assume they're responsible enough to not be doing drugs and drinking at that age while they take that driving responsibility, but I bet everyone reading this has been drunk at 16, and most likely even drove. If you didn't I'd say you're in the minority. Also, when a 16 year old boy for example, molests a 2 year old girl, they try him as an adult. Same for a 16 year old murdering someone. They're considered adults at that point, and recieve the same punishment as a full grown adult. But they aren't able to handle sexting gone wrong yet, huh? Then back to my original point that you disagreed with, and take their cell phone away from them so they don't have to worry about it ...

P.s. It isn't always JUST based around the cam on that cell phone ... teens having cell phones on them at all times, also keeps them in much quicker touch with each other at any point in time, at all hours of the day and night, to know where the parties are, and the trouble is, so they know exactly where they need to be at all times for the 'fun' (read drugs, sex, fighting, etc.). Take the cam and even the texting away, and you still have that added ability that we didn't have as kids. And we already got in enough trouble without that back then I can't even begin to imagine the things I would have been up to had I of had all this technology at my fingertips at that age. :daydreams: