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AWARENESS AND COMPLIANCE TO AGE RESTRICTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS BY AGE 10 – 13 IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

Awareness and compliance to age restrictions, the topic of this paper was guided by the objectives: to examine the level of awareness of age restriction on social media sites by underage users, to assess the compliance to the age restriction on social media site by the study group. Technological Determinism was adopted for theoretical framework and the method was the survey. The study found that almost 50% of the respondents were not aware of the existence of age restriction on social media even though most social media sites require you to input a birth date to sign up. High degree of non-compliance to age restriction on social media. Over 80%of the respondents had social media accounts which they opened on their own or had assistance from their parents, or friends and made the following recommendations : The restriction has to be made more stringent with features or questions that could detect contradictions, a possibility could be to get a certification that could prove a person’s age with previous or existing records, children under the age of 14 should not be allowed to possess or own smart phones so that their internet activities could be limited to computers at home where control is easier to ensure compliance to age restrictions on social networking sites, there should be legislation to limit the use of smart mobile devices by underage children to ensure their focus on their education at the vulnerable stage of their development.

KEYWORDS: Awareness, Compliance, Social media, Technological, Determinism

Austen Amechi Sado AND Esther Oro – Oghene Vese,

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF MODERN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION VOL.5 NO.1