(The above title is from the print version–KSH).
My 8-year-old son has used Facebook just once. “Call me, Uncle Marc,” he wrote to my brother from my husband’s account. When he didn’t get an instantaneous response–Uncle Marc was at an Allman Brothers concert–he was not terribly impressed by the site that has nearly 700 million people under its spell.
So I am not among the many parents who freaked out when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his desire to upend the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act, which requires websites that collect user information to get parental permission via credit-card verification, for example, for anyone under the age of 13. “That will be a fight we take on at some point. My philosophy is that for education, you need to start at a really, really young age,” said the baby-faced Facebook founder.