Facebook removing underage users

Deepika Bansal

Deepika Bansal

@deepika-jf1ysv • Oct 24, 2024
Facebook is booting around 20,000 underage users per day.
According to a #-Link-Snipped-# by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. are using social network sites, despite not meeting the minimum age requirements for sites like Facebook. And such popularity only balloons once the teens grow older: roughly 64% of 13-year-olds are social networking; between the ages of 14 to 17, that figure jumps to 82%, says Pew. #-Link-Snipped-#
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  • silverscorpion

    silverscorpion

    @silverscorpion-iJKtdQ • Apr 2, 2011

    This is a very much needed move, I'd say!!

    Many teens and pre teens who use social netwoking lie about their age and somehow join such sites, either on their own or due to peer pressure.
    But they are not aware of the risks in putting up personal information for the whole world to see. And we can't expect them to know much about privacy settings either..

    So, it's a good thing that such under age accounts are being removed. But one thing that strikes me is that, even if an account is removed, all a person has to do is create another account and lie about the age again..
    How are under age accounts found and how are they stopped from creating another account again? These are the questions..
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  • Deepika Bansal

    Deepika Bansal

    @deepika-jf1ysv • Apr 2, 2011

    You're right SS.
    One thing I am not able to understand is that how the facebook moderators are getting to know who is under-age and who's not..?😐
    And secondly how are they preventing the removed users from making a new account with different fake information. (Keeping track of the IP address will surely not work here.)😐
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