every parent has that excuse. did you know americans spend more time on facebook than they do on any other website? facebook accounts for 12.3% of time spent online in the u.s. which is gigantic. what will poor sasha and malia do with their spare time? professor, should kids go on facebook? yes or no, go. no, they should not be on facebook before they re 13. anyone can go in and kind of lie about it. i spoke people lying online? no, that will never happen. here s the problem is parents are signing up with their kids and encouraging them often under 13 and letting them do it. so why would you have your first connection with something they re going to use for the rest of their lyes perhaps be a lie? and parents who won t let their kids drink or do other things think starting before 13 is
fine. i have 7-year-old twins. they re not on it, but they have friends who are less than their age already on facebook. what s the dinger? aren t they going to go online at some point and run into all this stuff? isn t the cat out of the bag? at some point they will, but you want to delay it as much as possible. facebook is not the environment that they need to be on right now. why? what s wrong with the environment? first of all, just the fact that the terms of service, the rules are you have to be 13 and older. there are all kinds of people on there and you don t want your kids associating with people who they don t know. and there sรง a deeper thing he that is this the time they should be spending maybe reading, maybe talking to their friends? they re reading their friends updates. it turns out sally had a sandwich. that s reading. 50 i could use the secret service to control my kids. how about kids above 13? do you think that s kosher? facebook is going to be an
americans who are very passionate about finding solutions to the problems that we face. if that involves some healthy, vigorous debate then allow it to be so. greta: one quick last question. the media, are we part of the problem? are we challenging and asking and inquiring and getting information from our politicians or are we being mean and nasty and trying to create trouble for all of you? the media is definitely a major part of the problem. there s a problem with incivility definitely, so many in the lame stream media picking up on what goes viral with lyes and innuendo and rumors that are in the blog sphere and elsewhere for the lame stream media to run with it without getting facts perp
americans who are very passionate about finding solutions to the problems that we face. if that involves some healthy, vigorous debate then allow it to be so. greta: one quick last question. the media, are we part of the problem? are we challenging and asking and inquiring and getting information from our politicians or are we being mean and nasty and trying to create trouble for all of you? the media is definitely a major part of the problem. there s a problem with incivility definitely, so many in the lame stream media picking up on what goes viral with lyes and innuendo and rumors that are in the blog sphere and elsewhere for the lame stream media to run with it without getting facts perp