Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day

autospa writes "Although Facebook requires all users to be 13 or older, the social network bans 20,000 underage users a day, a spokeswoman said. 'There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook],' Mozelle Thompson, Facebook's chief privacy adviser, told the The Telegraph."

They end up somewhere else

[sethstorm]

Myspace.

Still facebook

[leaen]

I though facebook is past time for teenagers already cause their mum and grandma are at facebook too.

Lying about age?

[commodore64_love]

So subtracting 10 years off my birthdate is a Facebook offense?
Ooops.
:-|

In other news?

[vawwyakr]

20k undercover police officer's fake accounts banded perday from facebook.

Re:Lying about age?

[Anonymous Coward]

Subtracting 10 years from your birthdate makes you older. Moron.

Re:Age of Consent?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's usually around the time they start sporting bewbs, and Z-berg isn't into flattys.

Mis-read headline

[AliasMarlowe]

I thought it said "Facebook bangs 20,000 kids a day", which is probably criminal.
But sending them to Myspace is almost certainly worse...

Re:I don't understand

[snspdaarf]

"first grade was great today..."

In the town I live, that could be posted by half the population under 35

Re:They end up somewhere else

[Rik Sweeney]

MySpace. The website for 14 year old girls. And the 40 year old men that love them.

Re:They end up somewhere else

[Chrisq]

MySpace. The website for 14 year old girls. And the 40 year old men that love them.

I hope you mean their dads

Those darned apostrophes

[Deep Esophagus]

I almost hate to do this since you were so careful at catching all the other mistakes, but

As in it's time has passed.

should be

As in its time has passed.

"It's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's a shame people can no longer communicate effectively." "Its" is the possessive for "it", as in "its time has passed." So, to quote someone who quoted a wise man:

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right yourself.

Re:They end up somewhere else

[NevarMore]

Only in the context of "Who's your daddy?"

My son....

[flashingcurser]

My 12 yo son and all of his friends have facebook accounts. The only exploitation that I can see is my wife's farmville looks like a plantation with a bunch of 12yo slaves.