What age to log in Facebook?

Facebook has now grown rapidly and has more than 300 million users all around the world. However, Status updates, photo tagging and FarmVille aren't just for adults or even teenagers anymore. Some researches wake us up that even kids now has a Facebook account.

Many elementary students talk about their status or photos on Facebook to others and proudly did it but we do not realize yet the bad effect of it. Actually, Facebook or Myspace requires users to be at least 13 years old to have an account, but they have no practical and technical way to moderate their real ages. More of them pretend to be older when signing up.

From the survey done by pewinternet.org, 38 percent of 700 and 935 teenagers aged 12 to 14 said that they have online profile of some sort. Sixty-one percent of those in the study, ages 12 to 17, said they use social-networking sites to send messages to friends, and 42 percent said they do so every day.

With all the facts above, we have to now worry to our children when they start to sign up to some social media sites. Using these social sites can affect to psychological and way of their thinking then will make them grow mature before their age. Many interactions on the internet would influence your children and we cannot control what kind of influence on internet. Accompanying and educating your children in responsible way would reduce the bad effect of this social-networking sites when we forcibly let them to sign up.

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