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Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day
autospa writes "Although Facebook requires all users to be 13 or older, the social network bans 20,000 underage users a day, a spokeswoman said. 'There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook],' Mozelle Thompson, Facebook's chief privacy adviser, told the The Telegraph."
Myspace.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
I though facebook is past time for teenagers already cause their mum and grandma are at facebook too.
I am 12, what is this?
So subtracting 10 years off my birthdate is a Facebook offense?
:-|
Ooops.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I doubt they'll be able to stop everyone under the age of 13 from accessing it. Though it's likely something parents do not enforce or care about to stop their children from using it.
just until it's (qatar) ours alone (patentdead/subscribible)? it (solar powered 'clouds') doesn't use any fuel/oil, so that's a strike against it right now? looks like a lot of stuff is out, including life itself, until we get a handle on the rapidly escalating holycost.
20k undercover police officer's fake accounts banded perday from facebook.
When asked by the Australian parliamentary online safety committee how Facebook can detect those lying on age forms, Thompson replied, "It's not perfect." In fact, it's relatively easy. A standard online form asks a user if he or she is 13 or over, and the user can tell the truth or not. ComScore estimates about 3.6 million of kids under 12 use Facebook in the United States.
Uh, I don't understand this retarded article. How are they determining that users are under 13? The article says "In fact, it's relatively easy." but then goes on to talk about something entirely different. Of course the user can tell the truth or lie, but how is Facebook determining they lie? In their own words "It's not perfect" so what are they doing? Facial recognition to flag people that look young? Network of young friends? Use of improper grammar and slang in posts? I hate lame articles like this.
Better known as 318230.
I wish they would let us customize our default posting options, by age or individual. I would love nothing better than if my postings by default couldn't be seen by anyone under 18 (i.e., my nephews) and anyone over 60 (i.e., my parents).
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I know a few children who have accounts on Facebook (children of my friends), how do I report them so I can finally be rid of their immature comments on their parents' publications?
Why are they banning under-13's from using the site? Is 13 the age of consent in the United States? what an arb number...
feels ok/not good. definfinitively looks good on our math skills & surroundings resolution development (dna) scale. tough crowd, so we love you the most. thanks.
its pretty unreal...this number is unbelivebel...you now that every user has the worth 100$ for facebbok?! expect sites like casino or travel have not that user-worth...Book of Ra online spielen and facebook a giants...unreal world *_*
I thought it said "Facebook bangs 20,000 kids a day", which is probably criminal.
But sending them to Myspace is almost certainly worse...
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
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My youngest niece and all her friends are on facebook and she's under 13 -- she uses her ipod touch to access the site. She can type with her thumbs faster than I can on a keyboard with all 10 fingers! Her spelling is terrible, but, she gets her messages across. I'd never heard of this rule until now, I just assumed it was normal for her to be on facebook.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I hate lame articles like this.
Then why are you reading /. ?
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
Sadly, Facebook is the Crack cocaine of the internet. Facebook has put oodles of web games on their site that kids dig. Children are very social creatures, and this is basically the cookie jar that's within reach and a tiny bit of innovation (lying) from kids to get that cookie. The problem is that kids don't think through things, when they lie.
They may say they are 14, and then have open discussions about all the 3rd grade class stuff the kid does and posts from other friends to post dates and times and ages.
In some of these take-downs, the Parents are the ones who have consented to the page.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
So far as I know, in the UK, there is nothing legal to prevent children of any age taking part in social media. (If I am wrong, please correct me). The European Data Protection Act is often quoted, but is not age specific, it just says that the expected target audience should understand what they are signing up to, and most agencies reckon that understanding comes at around the age of 12, which, coincidentally, is the same age at which they can be legally culpable of violent crimes. So if a bunch of savvy 11 year olds want to communicate among themselves via Facebook entirely within the UK, without asking for parental consent (or even with it) are they breaking anyone's laws? Just because Facebook tries to work within California's rules, does that mean that UK use by young children is a problem - not counting the whole appropriateness/stalker issue?
In reality, it's probably more like 2,000 kids who keep trying to get a profile that sticks...
"Come on...the tenth time's the charm!"
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
Lol if I had a nickel for everytime I posed as an OVERage person when I was underage..
someone made a facebook account on one of my emails, and i was pissed i could not have the thing deleted in any way.. :-)
i guess i'll activate it and start saying i'm 11 year old then..
FINALLY!
I almost hate to do this since you were so careful at catching all the other mistakes, but
As in it's time has passed.
should be
As in its time has passed.
"It's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's a shame people can no longer communicate effectively." "Its" is the possessive for "it", as in "its time has passed." So, to quote someone who quoted a wise man:
Really ????
What a surprise
da da da dum indeed.
My 12 yo son and all of his friends have facebook accounts. The only exploitation that I can see is my wife's farmville looks like a plantation with a bunch of 12yo slaves.
I tell them why they shouldn't be on these sites. I explain that there's a hell of a lot of risk because adults who get caught get terrible punishment, hardly any worse than if they'd murdered their victim. And a dead child can't tell on them.
So these kids are risking their very lives on these sites.
Sometimes I get abuse hurled at me. Oddly enough, sometimes I'm accused of being a paedo. By the child on an adults-only service. Weird, huh. Most of the time, though, they're defensive at first then admit that what they're doing is dangerous. I suspect because most of the kids are on there just to be treated like an adult. Which I do when explaining the danger calmly as if they are fully able to understand complex reasoning.
This is simply shocking. 13 year old kids lie to get on Facebook? Why - back in my day, they hadn't invented LYING yet! The younger generations are going to hell, I tell you. Lying. My generation would never have though of telling a lie to anyone. Well, maybe to get out of a horse-whipping or something like that. Even then, we'd have crossed our fingers behind our backs!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
People lie on the internet!?!!
At least now you only have to claim to be 13. Back in my day I was 18 every year for 6 years.
How many with fake accounts?
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My ten year old daughter has a Facebook account, to communicate with all her friends who are also lying about their age. Seriously, when your only age verification is the question "Are you over 13 (yes/no)?", what do you expect? I'm beginning to suspect that most of the dogs, cats, and horses with Facebook pages are also lying about their age. Seriously, all anybody needs to do is look at the profile pictures people post to notice that a LOT of people are lying about their age!
NOOOO!!!
Those are the obvious reasons. But none of those are correct.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/10/how-coppa-fails-parents-educators-youth.html
I didn't know there was an age limit. I am sure that most of my daughter's fifth grade class is on facebook. Actually, if parents have access to their younger kids' facebook accounts, and they should, it is a great way of keeping track of what is going on at school. As with adults, kids don't know when to shut up on facebook, and they say things they wouldn't say in person
I've been thinking that Facebook accounts for my kids, 5 and 7, might encourage them to learn to read and write.
My 5 year old who can't read has an account. She is friends with her mother and myself. I have everything locked down to "super private" and there is no information about her on there. People can even hit the "add as friend" button.
But, she can play Happy Pets and Chocobo's Dungeon. Put those games on an independent platform and I'd gladly let her play them minus FB, but that's not how it is.
I don't think you were 18 or even 13 when you learned about the concept. I was 6 to 9 years old when I was discussing them with my classmates and looking at porn.
The law that makes Facebook restrict age and ultimately makes kids lie is idiotic. It is one of the many crappy laws passed back when normal non-nerd people were terrified of the internet.
I personally don't let my kids on Facebook, even the two that are 12. They've all a number of friends who are also 12 and under who do have accounts (which get suggested to me as my wife and I are friends with parents and teachers who are friends of these kids).
I sure wish there was a way to report them to Facebook to have their accounts zapped (or at least flagged to be verified in some way). Clearly from the content posted the parents aren't monitoring them live, nor even looking at what they post on each other's walls from day to day.
Just yesterday I did a computer science demo for a large batch of fifth and sixth graders (ages 10-12).... I asked them what they used their computers for, and it was unanimous: "Facebook!"
-"Mom, stop treating me like a kid."
-"You will always be my kid"
-"Mooom, I am 30 years old..."
-"Hush, are you eating well? You look skinny".
Parental participation should be illegal.
It was hard enough to move out from the basement, Facebook is the nightmare for overprotected kids: it is the digital basement. Forever... and ever... and ever... (curled up in fetal position)