Feburary 26th 2011
If your mother told you that you weren’t allowed to use facebook or create an account would you be upset? I am sure you would. As a matter of fact according to the house hold you were raised in that would call for an all hell breaking loose moment. Well believe it or not the First Family in the United States have put the rule in place in their household. That’s right! The Obamas, specifically Michelle Obama has publically expressed that she isn’t a fan of facebook and she has discouraged her daughters from creating an account.
I have no problem with that move and I applauded her. Quiet frankly I don’t think that it is a good idea for young children especially if you are in your early teens to be consumed by the World Wide Web. I am sure that those of you who are underage know that facebook has an age restriction on who can be a member. Now how many of you have lied about your age just so you can get an account.
You see many of you have asked us why don’t we have an account on facebook and to be honest, we just aren’t old enough for one yet just like many of you are. But that doesn’t mean we can’t interact. Of course we can, we have the great out doors. I enjoy meeting all new people every time I cover a school event such as sports, pageants, carnival and the list goes on and on.
When I checked facebook’s policy on minors I saw this “Minors. We reserve the right to add special protections for minors (such as to provide them with an age-appropriate experience) and place restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with minors, recognizing this may provide minors a more limited experience on Facebook”.
A good move by facebook but it won’t safe guard a minor who has lied about his or age. Now some of you young people post things and then delete it after a scolding from a friend or because you realized that you just may have bitten off more than you could chew. Here is another note I saw under the “fb” private policy that I am sure none of us bothered to check out. “Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.
Always remember this internet users, when it hits the World Wide Web, it is never private, it can always be found. What may seem like an innocent prank, or a picture with friends may be the beginning of a very bad nightmare that I am sure you don’t want to have. There are sick and malicious people who create fake accounts with evil intentions, so to you I say be very careful.

Be safe ya’ll and God bless.
Scady. P

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