[Publib] Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions

[Don Wood]

Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy
Solutions by Adam Thierer
http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop14.5ageverification.pdf 

"'Social networking' defies easy definition because, in many ways, the
Internet and most of the websites that make up the World Wide Web have
been fundamentally tied up with the notion of social networking from
their inception. 'Trying to define social networking is very much like
trying to pin down a moving target, because it’s evolving so quickly,'
argue Larry Magid and Anne Collier, authors of MySpace Unraveled: A
Parent’s Guide to Teen Social Networking."

See also

Why MySpace is a Safe Space
http://donwood.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2007/4/3/2856605.html