Zuckerberg Wants Kids to Join FB, Uses Bogus Excuse to Say Why They Can’t

I create kids sites for a living and having spent too many hours locked up in rooms with lawyers I can tell you that COPPA isn't a bogus excuse. You'd need to have parents give permission to facebook to collect marketing data — as if that weren't enough of an uphill struggle keep in mind the number of lawsuits against Facebook dealing with issues like bulling and other scary issues like online predators.

Unless Facebook were to invent a special account (or a special domain like Facebook Jr.) it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Also kids get very tired of social networks — as it is there are many under-13 kids with fake accounts who abandon them within a few months because the site no longer seems cool.