Google+ is now accepting teenage members aged 13 and up in most countries, giving the social network a major demographic to target as it seeks to grow its current user base of 90 million users.
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Twitter and Facebook have also set 13 as the minimum age users can join their social networks, so in a sense Google is simply following their lead.
While most teens worldwide can join at 13, Google set the minimum age for new members at 14 in Spain and South Korea, and 16 in the Netherlands.
“Teens and young adults are the most active Internet users on the planet,” explained Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of product management for Google+. “And surprise, surprise: They’re also human beings who enjoy spending time with friends and family. Put these two things together, and it’s clear that teens will increasingly connect online.”
Google is taking care to make sure teens share what they want to share in the right context, a bid to staunch the gross oversharing on social networks between teen connections who may be more acquaintances than actual friends.
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