Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of Facebook, feels that kids under the age of 13 should be able to use the social networking service. In all reality, pre-teens already flood Facebook, Zuckerberg just wants to make it official and said he plans to fight current regulation — and specifically the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) — that makes it illegal for children under 13 to join an online service which collects user information data. “That will be a fight we take on at some point,” Zuckerberg said, according to a report in International Business Times. “My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age.” A recent online survery conducted by Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project suggests Zuckerberg would have at least some parental support. The number of parents who say they would allow children 10-12 years old to join a social networking site like Facebook or MySpace doubled in the last year, even though it’s not permitted under COPPA. The survey pinged 1,000 adults and 17 percent of those questioned said they would be just fine with their pre-teen using a social media site, compared to 8 percent a year ago. Still, not everyone is on board with the idea, and some are questioning Zuckerberg’s motives. The Senate Commerce Committee held a sitting last week and listened to a handful of comments accusing Zuckerberg of lacking social values. “I think he was focused on how the business model would work… He wanted to make it bigger and faster and better than anybody else ever had,” said Panel Chairman John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller accused Facebook of paying little attention to monitoring the billions of posts on the site, and that by allowing children to join, it would put them at risk of being exposed to sexual predators. “I want you to defend your company here because I don’t know how you can,” the Senator said. Image Credit: smosh.com