Comments on: Boycott Bimbo virtual fashion game

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:42:04 +0000

Stephanie, who am I to say? I’m a concerned parent. I’m curious if you are a parent?

I did not go through the profiles of the 708,174 members. Like I previously stated I viewed the messages in the meet and greet forums. I did not view all 76 pages of the meet and Greet thread, but from the pages I did view I counted over 100 members between the ages of 12 and 14.

You state that “Very rarely do you come across anyone under the age of 14. ”

Again this is not true. One of the newest registered members who registered five days ago is 13.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:42:45 +0000

100 out of 708,174 is not many. I pulled my information from the original statistics from approx. 6 months ago. I can say most are 16 and older because they are! Very rarely do you come across anyone under the age of 14. The average user is in their late 20’s early 30’s!!!!!

Maybe this website is not meant for someone who has yet to hit their teens, but who are you to say what websites should be banned? There are many other sites that anyone regardless of age can get into. Including pornography sites, where all they ask is for a simple age verification (most kids know how to lie)

You’re wasting your time fighting this site. I agree with the people that say the parents should be monitoring their Internet usage so we don’t have issues and complaints.

P.S. If parents don’t want their kids to play then they need to be a parent and monitor what their children do. Internet content should not be censored just because a kid might end up on the site, parents should use the tools provided like content censors that allow parents to limit access to web sites that they do not preselect for their kids to go to or just pay attention to them. You’d be surprised how easy it is to find out what your kids are up to when you sit down together for dinner and ask them what they did that day. I know parenting is a forgotten art form but maybe it’s due for a revival.

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:22:56 +0000

Stephanie, those as young as seven can register. My opinion is that the website may be appropriate for a 25 woman such as yourself who is not easily influenced, but it is inappropriate for a young teenage girl.

FYI: I just viewed the forums. You have over 100 members between the ages of 12 and 14, so how can you come here and tell us that most are 16 and older. I counted 4 that were were 9 and I did not even bother to view all 76 pages of the meet and Greet. One girl was 8. Yet you say “They only found one girl as young as 9.”

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:06:14 +0000

I also wanted to add, your assumption that this game is made for girls 7-17 is wrong. They only found one girl as young as 9 the majority are teenagers. Most regular players of the game, like I said before are 16 and older.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:56:14 +0000

I love Missbimbo.com I’m 25 years old and I play it everyday. I don’t really see the big deal that everyone else does. Not many children play this game it’s mostly people 16 and up. The game isn’t all about diet pills and breast implants. It’s fun to buy clothes and dress her up. Where’s the uproar on Bratz dolls? In my opinion those are a million times worse because they’re marketed specifically at young children. I think the funniest part of all of this is, all you people against it and making it a public uproar are bringing it to more people’s attention. So now instead of the 200,000 people registered it’s closer to a million. You just did a really good job of advertising for them.