Technology has certainly changed our lives for the better and
made things easier. I can’t imagine life without my beloved
Android that I take everywhere I go. I use it to make calls,
text, check my emails and Facebook, and even as my GPS. It’s
changing our children’s lives too: they are getting cyber-savvy
earlier and earlier. Which means they want to get involved with
social media earlier too. What age is the right age for children
to get their own Facebook pages? Currently, The Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) mandates that a child must
be thirteen to have any sort of Internet account, including
Facebook. Recently Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook explained he is
working to get the required age lowered because we live in a
technology-driven society, and children learning about online
media at an early age would be at an advantage later on.
Unfortunately, just because we say no, doesn’t mean that’s
necessarily the end of it. At this time, Facebook has no way of
verifying the age of the person signi