The article, Is Facebook Safe For Kids?, describes the safety issues taken into account involving facebook. In 2006, when Facebook was opened to the general public, children over the age of 13 were allowed to create a profile. Four years later, statistics shows that children at the age of 10 are starting to create profiles when Facebook was targeted to college students.
Facebook has been taken measures to protect the privacy of its users by being able to limit who can see what and making it easy na daccesible to report inappropriate content. Although there are still many situations of children who have ben hurt mentally and physically by online predators who eventually meet with children in person thinking that the predator is someone their age.
Furthermore, there are many features that attract children and teenagers to Facebook including Farmville, games, etc.An interview with the Vice President of Facebook involved his thoughts about how the future of this independent company would be. This video was filmed in 2007 and shows what he thought the future and target market of Facebook would be. In addition, the author of the article claims that: “In the end, it doesn’t matter how safe Facebook claims its site is, there are still some bad people who can easily access the site and reach its users” (Mcfarlane).
My Opinion: It is ultimately up to parents to be responsible for their children in the sense that they should be educating their children about online predators and the danger behind the screen. Resources for parents include: Internet Safety for Kids, Parental Control and Online Child Protection, and Instructions for Parental Control
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