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"With a recent Pew study that revealed nearly half of all U.S. 12-year-olds use social networking sites, privacy and safety concerns for children have grown louder. But according to Facebook, they are working to keep underage kids away. Just for those of you who didn&amp;#039;t know, the minimum age for a Facebook profile is 13 years old. I know a lot of parents who don&amp;#039;t know that, but it&amp;#039;s for very good reason. So if your children 12 years old or younger are on Facebook, you may want to reconsider. And Facebook is doing their best to help you, according to its chief privacy advisor, Mozelle Thompson, the site kicks off around 20,000 underage users per day. But the problem is users self-report their age, so if kids lie (which kids are known to do), the site can only do so much. &amp;quot;There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13,&amp;quot; Thompson said, according to Yahoo News. And if your kid is over 13, and has a Facebook profile, read WD&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;6 Facebook Safety Tips,&amp;quot; so you can better protect your child. - Alexandra Gekas, Associate Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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