MySpace Bans Searches for 69 Year Olds Due to Sexual Connotation

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Pete Cashmore
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MySpace Bans Searches for 69 Year Olds Due to Sexual Connotation
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Ha. It's well known that underage MySpacers often enter the age 100 to avoid having their accounts set to private. But MySpace has noticed another trend - users jokingly entering the age "69" as a reference to the sex position. Older users, they say, would then search for those accounts in the hope of finding teens.

To kill both problems, FIM CSO Hemanshu Nigam has decided to ban browsing for anyone over the age of 68. That's right: anyone who enters an age of greater than 68 on MySpace can no longer be found via the "browse" feature, although you may still be able to find them by name. They've also emailed all users who entered an age of more than 68 saying that their accounts will be deleted if they are thought to be misrepresenting their age - if you're a 70 year old with a youthful profile pic, it might be time to update it.

I sort of understand what they're trying to do here, but I can't help feeling that teens will just converge on another false age to use. Are there any sexual positions represented by numbers less than 69? ;)

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