Xbox Updates for Adults Only
posted Saturday Nov 7, 2009 by Scott Ertz
The staff here at The UpStream, along with others, have been testing out the new Xbox Live enhancements for a few weeks now. The addition of Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm have been terrific. Thankfully, though, we are all over 18.
When these new features go live to the general public, they will only be available to Xbox Live gold subscribers who are 18 or older. Major Nelson, the only guy at Microsoft who seems to talk, said in his blog,
We made this decision because as it stands now, parents aren't able to use Family Settings to customize which of these applications their children can access.
Fortunately, however, there is hope. He also said that they are working on developing an enhancement for the Family Settings control to allow parents to turn on and off these social networking features for their kids. Once that is in place, then they will lift the ban on users 13-17.
