don t discourage them. i agree it is a good service but as it is right now, it is not providing adequate protection. let me ask about age verification. i know some companies may differ with me on this but my impression is that there is really not a way that exist yet to truly get rocksolid age verification and filling in your birthdate obviously kids can put in a different date and they may be off to the races. so, am i wrong on that? is there not a really good, solid way to do age verification yet or tell me what the problems are right now? it has always been a challenge and i think you are exactly right to say there is no rocksolid way to do it. there are a number of different techniques or go facebook itself i think as developed some pretty good systems to do age verification. i think they probably get it right at a very high level, which is to say i would be very surprised if it were a large number of accounts for kids under 13. there may be some out there. i would su
tangle the chair. thank you mr. chairman and i would note for the record that chairman rockefeller has a long and distinguished and successful career in protecting children. thank you mr. chairman and senator rockefeller for all the work you have done in this area. it is remarkable as my colleagues have noted how quickly technology has changed over the last few years. i still remember this. people would say if you want to program your vcr, ask your kid that now vcr s are a thing of the past. new technologies, devices, programs and applications that completely change the way we work and communicate. from gps and geolocation on smart phones to the ubiquity of text messaging and twitter to posting our photos on social networking sites, the world is quickly changing and no group adapts to new technology quicker than young people and as was noted by my colleagues, nearly 60 million kids aged two through 11 are active on line and make up 9.5% of on line users. these numbers are