ATTENTION!!! Age verification is coming EU-wide.
I would ask you to please read this post until the end, because it is important. It’s about our social media as we know it today.
The EU is currently pushing forward a law within the framework of the “Digital Services Act” that introduces age verification. The stated goal is to keep children away from platforms that are not suitable for them. However, there are also discussions about banning children and teenagers under 16 from social media platforms entirely.
This would not only affect dating sites, adult websites, giveaway pages, or social media platforms with addictive potential (such as TikTok), but also Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X… These are the websites and apps we use every day.
𝕎𝕙𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕕:
No more social media for people under 16
You will constantly be forced to verify your identity
The verification works through an app that could be hacked — an app that stores your personal data…
Your anonymity will be gone:
Meta can already determine who owns which accounts and how many accounts someone has through online behavior, IP addresses, and browser usage. As part of age verification, Meta and other companies will pressure users with multiple accounts to connect them. The long-term direction is clearly moving toward one verified account per person.
If it is discovered that you have two accounts with different personal information, Meta could force you to unify those details, such as your birth date, name, etc.
On platforms where only one account is allowed, you may have to say goodbye to all your other accounts. Goodbye roleplay accounts. From their perspective, it makes sense — this is how they would try to prevent a child from creating another account using a parent’s age verification.
𝕎𝕙𝕪 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕒: Yes, Facebook already pushes us to provide personal information. That’s why I would always recommend making your birthday, workplace, school, hometown, family members, etc. visible only to yourself.
Because…
Potential employers search for you online to form a better opinion about you. Pictures of you completely drunk? — Not good.
Job agencies may look you up online to check whether you might secretly have a job
With your full name and birth date, people can already order things in your name
There have even been blackmail attempts where family members of victims were contacted
And this is not fake or fearmongering. Everything written here can be researched online with very little effort.
𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕠 𝕟𝕠𝕨:
Inform others about this topic. Maybe by copying and sharing this post or putting it on your profile. The more people know about it, the better.
Contact your representatives in parliament and speak out against mandatory age verification
Sign petitions against age verification and participate in demonstrations
Age verification will most likely come in some form. But we can at least try to ensure that it only applies to platforms that are actually intended exclusively for adults — and not to our normal social media platforms.
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞!
