Mostly "this is stupid and I'm going to sign up anyways". My daughter created her own fake Facebook accounts twice before she was 10 and has had one we allowed since she was 11. She original did it to play Farmville and the other Facebook games all her friends were playing.
She also got her GMail account locked out after Google+ launched when she innocently entered her actual date-of-birth when they prompted for it one day. This is the email account that all of her teachers expect her to have - just like all of her fellow students have.
I'm all for protecting kids' privacy, but there should be a parental override available to allow under-13 users onto services.
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Mostly "this is stupid and I'm going to sign up anyways". My daughter created her own fake Facebook accounts twice before she was 10 and has had one we allowed since she was 11. She original did it to play Farmville and the other Facebook games all her friends were playing.
She also got her GMail account locked out after Google+ launched when she innocently entered her actual date-of-birth when they prompted for it one day. This is the email account that all of her teachers expect her to have - just like all of her fellow students have.
I'm all for protecting kids' privacy, but there should be a parental override available to allow under-13 users onto services.
What stance would they take once they're grown up?