{"id":5281,"date":"2011-03-23T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-23T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T21:17:06","slug":"facebook-removes-20-000-underage-users-each-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/03\/facebook-removes-20-000-underage-users-each-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook removes ‘20,000’ underage users each day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approximately 20,000 children under age 13 are removed from Facebook for lying about their age every day. This was divulged during testimony by one of Facebook\u2019s privacy advisors<\/a> before Australia\u2019s parliamentary cyber-safety committee. Also, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. are using social networking sites, despite not meeting the minimum age requirements for sites like Facebook. This according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project<\/a>. And social networking increases tremendously once the teens grow older: roughly 64% of 13-year-olds are networking online; between the ages of 14 to 17, that figure jumps to 82%, says Pew. Any user no matter age can register for Facebook by simply lying when signing up – the giant has no mechanisms to detect whether a teen is telling the truth or not.<\/p>\n

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