That’s a creepy title if I say so myself.

Facebook developing technology to allow access to children under 13:

This isn’t a new idea actually. It usually crops up about once a year. If I could be bothered I’d post the last time I talked about this. It’s in the archives somewhere. You go look for it.

Anyway, I’ll probably just say the same thing I said in my last post about it. This is a horrible idea. The article states that Facebook is looking into technology that would allow children under 13 to use its site with parental supervision. There are some huge flaws in that theory. The first is whatever technology Facebook can come up with it will take about five minutes for online predators to figure out to circumvent it. And while encouraging parental supervision is a good thing unfortunately it’s not an absolute. How many stories have I posted where kids were able to access Facebook anytime anywhere with no parental supervision to be found?

The bottom line is if Facebook decides to pull the trigger on this idea nothing good will come of it.