Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 December 2012

Facebook Started Deleting Children's Accounts

Have you Noticed  Facebook Has started  deleting the accounts of the children who are under  13 years of age .Facebook has started restricting the children from accesing of Facebook Who are under age 13 Years.


CONDITIONS FOR CHILDREN ACCOUNTS :

Now  currently Facebook is accesing By 1 Billion Users Out of which 7.5 million Facebook Users were younger than 13 year age and more 5 million are 10 years and under .Here is the official statement of  Facebook legal terms under registration and account security.

" 5. You Will Not Use Facebook if You are under 13 ".

If  You are Sign Up For new Facebook account You need to enter your Birthday .So Facebook can customize content according to your age.



So what Happens If You are trying to make a account under age 13 years.You encounter this Error.



After that whenever your are try to visit Facebook.com (in the same window ) they notify you that you are ineligible for accessing Facebook and from then Sign Up doesn't appear for You.



Report Underage Children

Indeed Facebook encourages  users to  report false profiles of children under 13 years. Facebook even has a report underage children form, to report those who use false date of birth, and the age is verifiable under 13 years age.


If parents Believe that their underage  child  has created a Facebook account they recommend parents follow this link to delete their account.This rule is familiar to us but you  would be interested to read why parents help children violate Facebook’s 13+ rule.

So if you try create an account with Underage Facebook Will Definetly Delete Your account  without any explaination as it is against the terms of service.Facebook doesn't want to exposure the children to unrestructed online content . But the topic  is always on  if Facebook should allow children under 13 to join Facebook under parental supervision.

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Thursday, 27 December 2012

A Short History of Facebook Privacy Failure


Randi Zuckerberg posted a family snap to Facebook this Christmas. As with many of our snaps, it was funny in context, but a little too candid; you might not want it shared widely beyond your family. Unlike many of our snaps, it contained a billionaire brother in the background. 

Randi was outraged when the snap got broadcast to subscribers, who proceeded to share it on other social networks. She got outraged on Twitter. As a result, the photo she was talking about became widely disseminated. And there you have it: even the greatest luminaries on her brother's billion-strong network cannot always navigate their way in the choppy waters of social media privacy.

Facebook took steps to address this kind of problem last week, when it released a new privacy dashboard -- written in the plainest English possible.

Herewith, in an infographic from a web design aggregator, is a very short list of privacy uproars over the social network's short life:



Published By: Mashable
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