Facebook Doesn’t Like Homeschooled Kids

Wow looks like Facebook has it in for Homeschooled kids. Ok not quite this dramatic but Homeschooled kids are unable to join Facebook. This is actually due a policy whereby they need a valid school email address. Facebook use this as a way of “validating” their identity. Eg. If you have a valid school email address then you must be ok (right!).

So what is a homeschooler to do? My suggestion is actually start going to school. Alright a bit drastic. You are either homeschooled because there is no nearby school to go to or you have made a deliberate choice to be homeschooled. Anyway back to what to do. Maybe all the homeschoolers could get a petition together and lobby Facebook to change the rules. Maybe you could register homeschool as a valid school domain and then homeschoolers could get an email address there. I don’t really know.

Anyway I understand what Facebook are trying to do here but I don’t know that it has the desired effect. There has to be a better way, doesn’t there?

Look forward to your comments about this.