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  The age is actually 14, but 13 is your last year before it's normal, so the "13+" criteria is "You are now old enough to be responsible, you are old enough you don't need to be supervised as much and should be getting used to doing a lot more things unsupervised"
context: Pretty sure you could just lie and say you are whatever age you need to be in order to be on the site. >
  
  Social media should be for 18+. Kids shouldn't see what adults post, and adults don't want kids sharing their platforms. >
  
  There isn't really a legal mechanism for it, 13 is just the standard bar for when you aren't considered as much of a "kid". It is where school starts being your responsibility, where you start to learn to drive and get a job, etc. >
  
  You're not getting a job or learn to drive at 13 where I live. >
  
  The age is actually 14, but 13 is your last year before it's normal, so the "13+" criteria is "You are now old enough to be responsible, you are old enough you don't need to be supervised as much and should be getting used to doing a lot more things unsupervised" >
  
  Learning to drive at 14 is crazy to me. >
  
  Honestly even 16 is too young for some. Especially on reddit the amount of sexual things they post is alarming. Too many of them don't even see the dangers of sending nudes to other teens. >
  
  The entire Internet should be limited to people over the age of 21, with the exception of heavily restricted access at schools and libraries for educational purposes. >
  
  China approves >
  
  Social Media should be 18+ in general. There's no benefit for a teenager to be on social media, only danger. 
  But seeing as kids are raised by tablets nowadays I think we'll never get there societally. >
  
  Do you not understand COPPA? >
  
  What do I not understand about it? >
  
  COPPA doesn’t require platforms to be 13 plus, for one. COPPA “imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age” - taken directly from the FTC website where the rule lives. 
  So in essence, COPPA requires that websites can’t collect personal information from those under the age of 13 (like when signing up for membership requires the collection of certain information like name, birthdate, email, etc) or the sharing of such information through third parties like embedded cookies. For those sites that do allow those under 13, special mechanisms must be in place. It “prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use, and/or disclosure of personal information from and about children on the Internet”. 
  And of course, on websites that do require only those 13 and up because they don’t want to add on the special requirements necessary, there is verbiage in every T & C for a website where one signs up with personal info that states if the person is 13 or older but under 18, that they are agreeing that it is done with parental or legal guardian permission. Meaning it puts the onus on the parents. >
  
  There is no point in those regulations, it's pretty much unenforceable >
  
  Well there's no way to enforce the current rules so what does it matter? >
  
  Have you heard of pornhub? >
  
  It ultimatley comes down to parents being irresponsible. We shouldn't need legislation to make the internet kid friendly, parents should be responsible enough to check on what websites their kids go to. When I was a kid my mom would look over at what game I was playing or whatever and if I picked something to violent or whatever she made me switch over. >
  
  Pretty sure you could just lie and say you are whatever age you need to be in order to be on the site. >
  
  Social media should be for 18+. Kids shouldn't see what adults post, and adults don't want kids sharing their platforms. >
  
  There isn't really a legal mechanism for it, 13 is just the standard bar for when you aren't considered as much of a "kid". It is where school starts being your responsibility, where you start to learn to drive and get a job, etc. >
  
  You're not getting a job or learn to drive at 13 where I live.