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Ways to Enforce Age Restrictions on Social Media

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Alpine3
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im looking for ideas on ways that websites could be able to enforce age restrictions on websites like facebook and twitter and shit like that for a project for school

think outside the box, and yes i realize half of the kids on here are underage haha but im just lookin for possible ideas...
Sep 29 2010 10:54AM
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1337
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you mean for porn sites? I'm not giving you any ideas...
Sep 29 2010 10:56AM
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Alpine3
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haha no for like facebook and myspace.. not porn.. that you can do when ur 10 with ease
Sep 29 2010 10:58AM
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freestyler540
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yeah, its called a filter. Admins can punch in a password to get full access and others can be restricted.

cheez, do you go to school? or have a job?
Sep 29 2010 12:49PM
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neutralzombie
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ha. i just found out one of the high schools is using social media as a new program for school.
Sep 29 2010 12:54PM
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Rachy
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OpenId

Turn it into something requiring verification that needs to be applied for.

Then make sites accessable via OpenId or general registration, but those registered with OpenId can access age appropriate content.

But you still need a method of figuring out age with out breaking any privacy laws.
Sep 29 2010 12:58PM
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Shredneck
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Iris scanning, every time a person goes to the doctor, police station, etc they get they Iris scanned and info attached, all newborns are scanned before they leave the hospital. All computers either have integrated Iris scanners or retro-fitted with a USB one. Websites can know how old you really are.
Sep 29 2010 12:59PM
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geteducated
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well if all designated social media sites had a domain like

www.facebook.soc

then the administrator would only have to block domains with soc to block alll social media sites for users.
Sep 29 2010 1:00PM
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Username_42069
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idk if this is what youre looking for, but you could have people enter their license number (LIC#) and state. that way it would keep younger kids off and older people out, potentially.

personally i wouldnt want to intrust this type of information to an online source, but it seems like a possible approach
Sep 29 2010 1:03PM
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GayWolf420
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How about kids underage like me need to stop making dumb fucking posts and start using common sense and intelligence.
Sep 29 2010 1:04PM
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Dan.
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well the only surefire way to enforce age restrictions would be a state (state as in country, not US states) ID card, which is something that most people in the US wouldn't go for.
Sep 29 2010 1:22PM
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Alpine3
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haha right cause admins on facebook wanna go through the millions of users and pick and choose who to restrict... cause that makes sense

someone got NS on their mind??
Sep 29 2010 1:34PM
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Alpine3
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haha if its such common sense and you're so intelligent why don't you shed some light on this issue buddy??
Sep 29 2010 1:36PM
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