On October 21, 2013, Facebook's manager of privacy and safety announced that the social network has, "thought a lot about opening up the site to children under the age of 13 to get the opportunity to access on to Facebook." Similarly, Facebook had changed it's policies to allow children under 13 publicly post online, for anyone to see. This may affect children's lives. Opening the site to children under the age of 13 is a bad idea, for many reasons. First, it might cause more cyber bullying. Second, it might affect the children's communication with and their families. Lastly, it may increase the prevalence of kidnapping, rape, or murder cases. First, cyber bullying refers to any kind of aggressive behavior through social media. Cyber bullying could happen by text, Tweet, Skype, or E-mail, but most consistently happens on Facebook. Cyber bullying usually results in traumatizing the victim,. It can also cause low academic achievement, and interpersonal alienation. It may even produce retaliatory attacks, or forces the victim to turn to bullying others. Cyber bullying also has an impact on the offender. The offender has a higher risk of adult crime, and alcohol abuse. 60% of perpetrators for crimes committed before the age of 24, are male. If Facebook does allows children under the age of 13, the ability to publicly post, there might be an increase in cyber bullying. Second, if Facebook allows children under 13, access, it may affect their communication with their family. A family with good communication might involve lots of technology; indeed, technology can be a great tool for communication. For example, some people do not like to tell things face-to-face, but they open up through online chatting. In this way, technology can become a media to connect children and parents. However, it will definitely affect their face-to-face communication with their families. If Facebook allows younger children access it may affect communication betw