New research shows 55% of children under the age of 12 have a Facebook account, despite age restrictions put in place by the site. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said in the past that he will at some point challenge the law restricting youngsters from participating on his social network. The issue of pre-teens using the internet has come to the fore again because of the young daughter of Rich Warren, a software engineer from Houston, Texas. Google shut down a Gmail account created for one young girl, meaning she no longer had access to her work or her address book of contacts.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/12/13/too-young-for-facebook-and-gmail/