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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.
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.
Tell the police they are 60-years-olds posing as teenagers.
Mostly harmless.
You start at -1 because you're a fucking moron and a troll, and because you've recently taken to using dozens of sockpuppets in an attempt to make sure every single person here knows how fucking stupid you are. Something you apparently don't even try to hide anymore considering you posted this as cpu6502 and knew the intentions of a post by commodore64_love.
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
Default posting options are there... Create a list called "Restricted" and add people to it and then restrict their access in security to not see your wall. It takes 5 minutes to create and one second to add a new friend to it after it's set up. If you don't want to restrict every post, there's a 'lock' under each post that if you want to block the post to the "Restricted" list, you click it and customize and add the "Restricted" list to "Hide this from". Lists are your friend.
If people with a vendetta against you mod you down it will be picked up by the metamoderation system. If you find that you are consistently modded down, bad luck, it means that your contributions really are crap.
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I always thought it would be funny for parents to create Facebook accounts for their kids when they're born, upload all their pics to it etc.
I have two under-13 "friends" on Facebook -- both children of people I know. One is only 1.5 years old, and got a Facebook account within a week of being born. When he's older I doubt he'll see that profile as "his", it's really his mum's second profile.
Federal law prohibits websites from collecting personal information from anyone under the age of 13.
SIG: HUP
He's never attempted to hide it. I don't think he uses "Sock Puppets" in the tradition sense, I think he just likes having his name show up 15 different ways. It's very odd. We've gotten into a few arguments over the last few months and it's really odd to get continuous replies from 5 or 6 different accounts all of whom are obviously the same person.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
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:
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 see where you are coming from ledow and sympathise from a user's viewpoint, but the answer to your question is that I care about the law and so does my company. I run a large UK children's club as part of a larger charity, and not surprisingly, many of the kids are not only on Facebook (shock!) but also prefer to communicate via Facebook rather than by something as 20th Century as email. Other people in my organisation are still not only scared by all the usual scary internet things, but also keep saying that even our own message boards *must* remain exclusively for adults for legal reasons. I dispute that and would like to have ways of backing up my view that not only do we need to communicate in ways that children are themselves using, but that the any rules on social media are under the control of the people who make the rules up, not the lawmakers.
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
You have 5 and 7 year olds and you're only just thinking about teaching them to read and write now?
:)
You're an American aren't you?
mediocrity rules, man
-"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)