Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants kids younger than 13 years on Facebook.
Speaking at NewSchools Summit in the US, Zuckerberg said that younger children should be allowed on the site for education purposes.
According to a news report on Fortune, the Facebook CEO said that in the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students.
Presently, Facebook allows only people aged 13 and above to sign up for the site. However, it is quite esay to get around this as Consumer Reports recently reported that there are approximately 7.5 million underage kids on Facebook. However, Zuckerberg seems determined to change this. 'That will be a fight we take on at some point,' he said according to Fortune. He said that his philosophy is that for education one needs to start at a really, really young age.
He pointed out that due to restrictions we haven't even begun this learning process. According to
the article, he says that if allowed, Facebook will ensure that kids are safe on Facebook. 'If they're lifted then we'd start to learn what works. We'd take a lot of precautions to make sure that they (younger kids) are safe,' he reportedly said.Interestingly, Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor recently appeared before US Congress, where he was grilled about underage kids on the site.
In March in a statement, Facebook said that it removes about 20,000 profiles from the site per day for a variety of policy violations, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use.
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