Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, again related to a controversial remark on the social networking service. Last year, he called privacy no longer so important. This time, he proposed the abolition of restrictions on the age of Facebook users. That is, infants who are still red was allowed to create an account on Facebook.
As is known, the minimum age is 13 years pegguna Facebook. However, from a study that was released some time ago, there were 7.5 million Facebook users who are under 13 years of age, generally 11 years. But surely this can not be a reason to open the taps for those who are under the age of 13 years. Children certainly can not protect themselves from things related to the world of adults who come to her Facebook page.
Mark Zuckerberg expressed his ideas in a speech in California the opportunity a few days ago. According to him, he has a philosophy that education takes time to start very young. Because of the restrictions it makes children under the age of 13 have not been able to start it. By letting them use Facebook, we can see what they will do. Mark also promised to make children safe on Facebook.
Of course there are the odd of Mark Zuckerberg this reason. First, the matter of education. Certainly can not be considered that using Facebook since children are considered as an education. Why? Therefore, Facebook is not the education space. Facebook is the medium in which the traffic information through status updates, photos, videos and even very high. Most of the information flow on Facebook is the consumption of adults, not children.
Second, the question of security. It's unquestionable, Facebook users account security is very low. User privacy on Facebook is very low, almost non-existent because the privacy policy is very loose due to Facebook's privacy provisions are very long and convoluted. Some Facebook users would have been very familiar with spam, scams, and a variety of URLs that lead to adult content. It would be very dangerous if children are allowed to see all this.
Still associated with the question of security, on Facebook none guarantee that all Facebook users will be applicable either. That is, once open the possibility of criminals, especially predators of children, to be able to find prey with children allowed to create an account on Facebook.
Third, the regulations prohibit the collection of information from children under the age of 13 years, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which was signed into law on October 21, 1998 and modified effective on 21 April 2000. This rule applies to commercial websites and online services directed to children under 13 years of collecting personal information from children. COPPA prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from and about children on the internet.
With the three reasons above, it is quite clear that the idea of elimination of age restrictions of Facebook users this is a pretty crazy idea from Mark Zuckerberg. Site zdnet.com mention this idea as the worst idea of the caliber of Mark Zuckerberg. Although Facebook has been doing enough to improve security, this is not a guarantee and a reason to legalize the elimination of age restrictions of Facebook users.
Associated with children or teenagers over the age of 13 years also, parents are still encouraged to pay attention to the involvement of children in Facebook. This is because, once again, helping users Facebook to connect with their friends online, but not necessarily all that online is a friend of the user. To monitor the involvement of children in Facebook, parents are advised to perform the following steps.
1. Monitor child's Facebook account
Parents should be involved in the child's friendships. This is important in order to find out what kids do on Facebook. If you can not, for example to teenagers in high school, they watch your from their friends. This is done by 18 percent of parents in a survey of Facebook users are aged between 13-17 years. Parents should not try to create a Facebook account by falsifying age of the child. If the child has created an account without the knowledge of Facebok, delete the account or invite up to remove it by filling out the report "Report an underage Child" provided by Facebook.
2. Take advantage of privacy controls
Approximately one in five adults active Facebook users say they do not use Facebook privacy controls are provided. This makes them more vulnerable to threats. Facebook privacy controls can not prevent every violation, but they are quite helpful in certain levels. Parents should set privacy controls children against what can be seen by all users of Facebook. For example, photographs that anyone can see and anyone who could send a message.
3. Turn off Instant Personalization
Facebook has added several sites to Instant Personalization feature, which will automatically obtain information about the characteristics of Facebook users. I highly recommend this feature to be turned off so that the profile of Facebook users are not exploited by third parties for advertising and other interests.
For parents, it is important to know the child's activity on Facebook in order to avoid problems arising later in life, such as child abduction and others. Facebook is useful, but only in certain limits. It would be better to prevent than disaster.
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