Caught between a rock and a hard place

[westbeilschmidt]

Nowadays everybody and their dog has a facebook ~no biggie~ but what would say or do if you knew that there was someone under the age of 13 (ie: user is only 9 years old) - which is 1. against the COPPA ( http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm) and 2, against user policy on

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[sio]

i'd report it, but then i subscribe to the old fashioned belief that kids that young don't need to be on places like FB, good parents or lazy parents. do other stuff online, maybe. FB, no. they can wait til they're thirteen. but more so it should be reported cuz it sounds like this kid is potentially in possible danger, due to the lack of parenting you mention.

problem is, if his account was created before FB changed their way of doing things, they may not care. used to be that the parent filled out some sort of form authorizing their minor child having an account...i think it even sent the parent weekly updates in their email or somesuch to "help" enforce the monitoring of said minor. now they demand a parent register their credit card to prove that the adult is in charge of the account...supposedly no charge will be made but it's supposed to ping the card to prove it exists and belongs to an adult.

[westbeilschmidt]

I never knew about the credit card part. Though I will be reporting it of sorts via by asking the question of "how old/young" a user has to be to have a fb.

Both my older children have an LJ, but it was start after they turned 13, as per COPPA and TOS here states. My sister-in-law, I swear is clueless

EDIT: I just joined one of FB's security comms and asked them that if there's a report on a child under 13 do they forward the complaint's name. I just don't need the hassle from my sister-in-law I have enough to deal with, but something should be said.

[glowy_lovers]

I wouldn't waste your time, I tried to report an minor (nothing done about it) and atm there is a guy that has set up a business at our home address with a FB page and both myself and R have reported it and nothing has been done, they basically don't give a damn :(