Don't let your kids on Habbo Hotel!!

[Nick]

I let my eldest install Habbo Hotel as some of her friends were on there.

So I just went into her room as she was getting irate about something and she was being messaged by loads of people she had added as friends.

The content of the messages?

CAUTION SWEAR FILTER AVOIDANCE AHEAD:

"I wanna phuck you senseless", "Show me your body and I'll show you my cuck", "Show me your feet and I'll cam myself cumming"...

Now I apologise for the crudity of the language and the apparent swear filer avoidance, but that is what is being typed into chat windows in Habbo Hotel, avoiding their swear filters.

So now I've been through and killed all her friends other than the two we know are her real school friends.

And then I went through the report problem process which,after getting me to filling in problem notification report, directed me to a generic 'help' page that was bugger all use.

So I clicked 'next' to actually submit the issue to the Habbo staff and guess what? The site reported that my session had timed out and the hotel was closed for maintenance.

Of course, if I ever do get an answer from Habbo, it'll be that they have what they feel are enough safeguards in place to keep youngsters safe and ultimately the parent is responsible for monitoring their kids online activities.

I agree, parents are and should be responsible but from my experience, Habbo really couldn't give a toss when something does happen.

On a slightly unrelated note, I received a mail from Habbo three weeks ago saying someone by the name of Jamie had signed up citing my email address as the parental one... and despite me replying saying that their information was false, I've still yet to see any action.

So this is a message to all parents reading this. Remove your child's account from Habbo hotel and remove the software from your PC... it's the only way to keep your kids safe from perverts masquerading as minors.

And you think I'm mistaken in thinking these sick bastards aren't minors? Ok, how many 12 year olds do you know with a foot fetish?

Seriously, get your kids off Habbo.

[0iD]

Thanks for the headsup Nick, will keep an eye out for this on the kids pc's

Just when you thought mankind couldn't sink any lower into depravity