Facebook asks that users be at least 13 in order to use the site, but close to half of U.S. 12-year-olds are on the social network already.
REPORT: Half Of U.S. 12-Year-Olds Are Facebooking
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Facebook Fight Over $20 Ends In Murder
A 22-year-old New York woman was allegedly stabbed to death because of a fight that started on Facebook over $20.
Teenager Kills Facebook Friend Over Girl
The body of 18-year-old John Dargis was found Friday afternoon in the woods of Zeeland Township in Michigan. His Facebook friend Joshua Hambly is accused of being the murderer.
Email Use Declines 59% Among Teens… Can Messages Surge?
ComScore has revealed what some of us suspected and what Mark Zuckerberg had claimed upon the launch of Facebook Messages last November: Teens are simply just not into email anymore.
Teens Find Innovative Ways to Control Their Facebook Presence
Ever heard of “Super-logoff” or “whitewalling”? They are ways to designate what some teens have been doing in order to have total control over who posts what (and when) on their Facebook page.
Facebook Teens: Wild, Crazy and Busted.
The stories of teens getting into trouble on or through Facebook seem to be getting more numerous by the day. In the past week, we’ve seen reports of teens having the police called on them for a brawl that broke out at a party advertised on Facebook, and others that were arrested after posting videos of their criminal activity on the popular social network. Yet another teen has been arrested for harassing another user through Facebook. What’s gotten into teenagers these days?
Their actions are nothing new. The platform for sharing their stories, however, is landing some teens in some very hot water. In a now familiar scenario, the police were called to a party that became rowdy when hundreds of teenagers tried to crash an event that was posted on Facebook, according to The Daily Mail. This is the latest in a string of similar situations in the UK where a private party advertised on Facebook reached the masses and led to dangerous fall-outs resulting in injuries and property damages.
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