It came up in French news yesterday that they were going to create a new regulation for social media (affecting Twitter, Facebook, etc)....if you were under 16 years old, you have to have the parent to approve the account.
Reporters covering this? Well....it was mostly a 10-line story. The last line indicated that no one could really describe how this process would work.
My guess is that as you (the kid) are starting your social media account....it will ask you for your birthday. If you were truthful, you'd admit you were underage, and then it would ask for your dad's email. Then it'd route the request to dad to approve.
This brings on a number of scenarios.
What if dad doesn't approve it? Could you run off to the local social office and complain dad wasn't being fair? Could some judge approve the account for you, because dad wasn't fair.
What if you said you were 16.5 years old, when in reality....you were 12 years old?
What if you gave them dad's email address, but it was really to your second email account, and you pretended to be dad?
At some point, I came to this reality....the French political folks in Paris who dream up these rules, really aren't social media players. They see it as sort of a license, and that things can be controlled.
Kids laughing about this? Maybe.
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