+walkingmax Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I just started out geocaching and like to take my grandson with me. I'd like to let him sign his finds and log them but he is too young for an email address. I know I could just make a fake email and check the emails for him but there has to be a better way for kids to join geocaching.com. How do you get around this limitation and get kids involved? Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I just started out geocaching and like to take my grandson with me. I'd like to let him sign his finds and log them but he is too young for an email address. I know I could just make a fake email and check the emails for him but there has to be a better way for kids to join geocaching.com. How do you get around this limitation and get kids involved? I did not realize that there is an age limit for getting an email address. You should be able to establish an email address and you should be able to read the email if you have the user name and password. As far as gc.com goes, there is no age limit for accounts, in fact there is not even a requirement to be a human. Plenty of dogs have accounts. Once you establish the gc.com account there is little need to read the email account unless your grandson decides to also hide a geocache. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Just open a Gmail account for his user name. When He is old enough give him the password and let him run it himself. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 You can have mutltiple accounts under the same email address. Just use your email for their accounts. Quote Link to comment
+walkingmax Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 You can have mutltiple accounts under the same email address. Just use your email for their accounts. Thanks starbrand, I knew there had to be a simpler way. Didn't realize it would be that simple Quote Link to comment
+dfx Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 in fact there is not even a requirement to be a human. Plenty of dogs have accounts. I'm curious how those dogs created their accounts. Do they have special keyboards suited for paws? Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 in fact there is not even a requirement to be a human. Plenty of dogs have accounts. I'm curious how those dogs created their accounts. Do they have special keyboards suited for paws? They get the cats to help them. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I'm curious how those dogs created their accounts. Do they have special keyboards suited for paws? They were the alpha-testers for Google Motion (now in Beta). Quote Link to comment
+NicknPapa Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I just started out geocaching and like to take my grandson with me. I'd like to let him sign his finds and log them but he is too young for an email address. I know I could just make a fake email and check the emails for him but there has to be a better way for kids to join geocaching.com. How do you get around this limitation and get kids involved? I did not realize that there is an age limit for getting an email address. You should be able to establish an email address and you should be able to read the email if you have the user name and password. As far as gc.com goes, there is no age limit for accounts, in fact there is not even a requirement to be a human. Plenty of dogs have accounts. Once you establish the gc.com account there is little need to read the email account unless your grandson decides to also hide a geocache. Email providers and most social networking sites do not allow children under the age of 13 to create accounts, A few will allow it with express written permission from a parent or legal guardian. This is to insure they are complying with COPPA. I was fairly surprised that Groundspeak allows children under 13 to have accounts. Quote Link to comment
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