There is age rstrictions on Facebook for a reason. The potential outcomes when a pre-teen uses Facebook are severe enough to warrant it a 13+ age requirement.
But does that stop under age kids opening their own account? Of course not.
Washington: Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, says a study released Tuesday. Even more troubling, more than five million Facebook users were 10 years old or younger, and they were allowed to use Facebook largely without parental supervision leaving them vulnerable to threats ranging from malware to sexual predators, the State of the Net survey by Consumer Reports found.” Read the rest, here.
And this is a trend we are seeing all over the world. As important as it is to have this age requirement, it seems too easy to sidestep it.
I believe that if Facebook really wanted to ban under 13’s from setting up accounts, they could.
But do they really want to?
Tags: Children, Computer, Education, facebook, Internet, kids, life, Mark Zuckerberg, Parenting, social media, State of the Net survey
Topical Teaching 
August 4, 2011 at 10:30 pm |
Facebook and texting has invaded the classroom at the expense of paying attention and learning and monopolizes a huge part of the school aged population’s awake hours. It is encapsulating.