There isn't really any methods in place for FB to know your 'real' age. Unless they monitor you, and hope you slip up eventually. Or someone reports a comment, or post with you mentioning it.

(I may be wrong?)

But yeah, this will probably get thrown out, and more hatred upon Facebook.

you put your infos on the internet?

then DEAL WITH IT!

the 12-year-old girl need a good reality check.

i agree with the fact that presently there is no way facebook can find the real age .. But the need to develop this thing or they are delibrately avoiding as their users can fall dramatically if user less then 18 years are discarded .

They don't have a right to do so, but the law doesn't exactly always account for what is fair. I guess they may suffer some form of penalty otherwise (maybe from the school district), but she wouldn't be able to sue them herself or even with a legal guardian.

Okay, let's say that it's perfectly reasonable for an interrogation of the girl without parental consent that leads to Facebook passwords being acquired.

What about the email passwords, then? And the interrogation/search of the girl in general?

And all this over calling the hall monitor "mean", using "naughty language" to ask who had been enough of a jerk (my words, lol) to screenshot her private facebook posts, and "discussing sex"?

Putting myself in her shoes, I can only imagine how creepy it would be for my school(s) during "pre-teen to teen" years to demand access to things I had communicated personally (and outside of school) to friends simply because I had called someone "mean", used a "bad" word, and discussed sex. I would be in trouble daily, lol.

Private words should be private, whether digital, said, signed, smoke signaled, whatever. Privacy shouldn't be judged by medium.

I'm not saying for certain that the law doesn't allow it, but I AM saying that it shouldn't.

Silent, that was brilliant.