On my way to work this morning I heard a news story on NPR about Facebook testing ideas of allowing children under age 13 to sign-up for accounts. Currently, the company prohibits this. I have had many discussions with my daughter concerning why I think it is bad for her to have a Facebook page at age ten. I searched for additional news articles that discussed these trials.
According to an article on cbsnews.com (found here), many are accusing Facebook of using children as a new revenue stream to increase the stock price; however, the company insists this was in the works over a year ago.
What are your thoughts? Would you let your child create a page?
How to catch a predator, put children on Facebook. This is a bad bad bad idea, the use of technology at young ages gets kids to become zombies and stunts their social skills. Its all a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteI agree. MySpace had this same problem where predators would try to target kids and arrange meetings. In college I actually dated a guy where his job was to create fake myspace accounts in order to lure predators fore arrest.
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I think let children to use Facebook is not a good idea unless the parent can watch them closely. I do not understand why FB will let children under 13 to use it. It can only make parents worry not increase revenue.
ReplyDeleteDo they think that linking childrens accounts to Facebook actually means a parent will be present every time the child accesses the site???
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