Why Facebook is After Your Kids

Did you know that over 7.5 million kids 12 and under are starting to use Facebook? In The New York Times article Why Facebook is After Your Kids, they talk about how younger kids are logging onto Facebook and can use it without parents permission. Some people believe that kids this young should not be able to access Facebook until and older age. I agree with this article that kids 12 and younger are still too young to be using Facebook. I feel that Facebook should be used for socializing with friends and family but when they are mature enough to use it. Kids under the age of 13 are still young, and they can be quite immature. They try and grow up too fast and could possibly do something stupid online, like add strangers or post inappropriate content. you never know who's out there and i feel kids under the age of 12 should wait to use Facebook.

Social Networking: Is it good or bad?

A lot of people use social networking sites these days including me. They are a way of communicating to friends for some people but it can also be dangerous. If your privacy settings are set to public then any person can look and your profile and see the information about yourself that you have posted. I think it is better to have at least SOME privacy protection on your profile. Do you have any privacy settings for your profile? I do but its only limited. Maybe i should have more protection for my profile. You may also have some people that you are friends with on your social networking profile that arnt actually your friends. Do you want those people to know all of the information that you have posted on your profile? I know that I don't. I still think that social networking is fine and should only be allowed to ages 12 and up. But that is just me. So maybe after you read this you will go home and change your social networking profile settings to have at least some privacy. That would be the smart thing to do.

http://socialnetworking.procon.org/#Background

Why Should Kids Under the Age of 13 Not Use Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter

The Reason why kids under the age of 13 is because if they start using the site when they're younger than the required age would cause them to make up a fake age (around the age of 15-18 some might put an even more outrageous age than 15-18 and would post alot of private information that they think won't been seen by the public if they put the profile to public when the information will be visible to everyone and will easily get into trouble and not know whats gonna happen from they're actions.