If you have to 18 to be on MFP...

i blame Obama.. Wait...edit edit edit, I dont want my 3rd strike.

LOL.


OP I agree with you.

I don't think the 18 thing is a restriction due to adult maturity levels and allowing of mature content to pass.

I think it's to protect the under 18s from all the horny mofos (female and male alike) who would latch on to them and convince them to send junk mail.

When you're under 18, its likely that you're still growing. So dieting is a baaad idea. Nothing to do with swear words etc!

Personally, I think the age limit should be moved down to 16. I don't think dieting as a teen is necessarily a bad idea, as long as it's done the right way, like many MFP members on here are trying to do. Many teens (and younger!) are overweight these days, and if they want to take responsibility for their health, then we should let them. One of my best friends (and still close friends) growing up was overweight the whole time I'd known her. When she was about 15 and tired of all the teasing and bullying, she went to her mom and asked for help. Her mom helped her with her daily diet and got her exercising and she dropped the weight. This also prompted her mom to become a personal trainer and she mainly works with teenagers. I would've even gone to her if it wasn't so expensive :indifferent:

If you seen my inbox, you would think that the mods have a thing for me.

Edit- JUST KIDDING, IM SORRY

Becase MFP owns the site and gets to decide what kind of content they do/do not want to allow on their site. I'm sure as this is a fitness/food tracking site they want to make sure someone is of age (18) in the sense that they are not promoting eating habits in children or liable for children.

Additionally im sure there are adult themes/scenerios on this site that will inevitably happen. Nothing like letting some 16 year old jailbait type girl get hit on by 40 year old men! :drinker:


No, but seriously, they created this site for a very specific purpose. They didn't create a dating site, facebook, myspace, whatever. They own it, they decide.

From a liability standpoint if i owned MFP i would probably do it that way too.

It probably has less to do with the swearing and more to do with the fact that adults prey on those who are not "of age" on sites like this.

Teenagers are still growing...their energy requirements are not the same.

then why do people get reported for the dumbest things? By being over 18 I'm sure that we've all heard and said a swear in our lives and we've all seen certain parts of the anatomy by now. I'm not saying I want this place to be x rated but geez, I'm getting so annoyed at all of the reporting. I personally think having that little button there when you read a post is overkill. If you are that offended I'm sure you'd seek out a way to report the post. Not agreeing with an idea does not justify a report, not liking what someone says does not justify a report. Just click your home tab and don't read it....

Because people are big fat meanie heads.... or is it baby cry's? Either way, people are way too sensitive...

With an entire generation that grew up on the Internet, you'd think we'd have a better appreciation of sarcasm obnoxious fun behavior. The young ones should be primed for it with us old guys insulted at the lack of boundaries.

Instead, we've got a steady stream of whinny-*kitten*, entitled not to be offended, humor free meatcicles running around demanding respect for ideas that are worse than useless.

and BTW,

Because MFP wants the world to be like this:



Whereas we all know the world is really like this:

I love you so hard right now!