New revenue stream is kids’ play for Facebook
Children need to learn to interact and socialise, whether online or offline.
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Jun 6, 2012
Facebook is in talks with the federal government about plans to allow under-13s onto the site, reports The Australian. Facebook is “under fire” for “setting its sights” on your kids, clichés Fairfax. Clichés is so a verb. But wait. Haven’t we been here before?
Ah yes. Here’s what I wrote in May last year: Facebook for under-13s? Who’s kidding whom here?
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How does Facebook know that anyone is under 13 unless they volunteer the information?
There is strong medical evidence that the flicker of the the old cathode ray TVs had a deleterious effect on immature brain development.
After the 80s introduction of muzak videos, the greater danger of 1-2 image changes increased the danger of cognitive miswiring which now has us in the 21stC with vast numbers of young people who cannot conceive the worth of a non screen existence, let alone, y’no yer akshal activity.
Under 13s on FarceBook? I’d recommend not looking at a screen (though the LED are orders of magnitude less harmful than the barrel of a cathode ray gun) until at least 10 but then I also adovcate eating nutritious food so am off with the faeries in this drear, dire modern world.