Social networking giant facebook says it removes about 20,000 profiles from the site per day for various infractions, including users who are underage.
In a statement it said those 20,000 removals cover a variety of policy violations, including spam, inappropriate content, and underage use. Facebook's privacy policy states that users must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
"At Facebook, we take safety very seriously and we were pleased to participate in a hearing in Australia to talk about our safety policies, practices and systems," the company said. "As we explained in the hearing, these efforts include removing numerous accounts everyday for activities including spamming, posting inappropriate content, and violating age restrictions."
Though the social networking giant does not have a sureshot system to check against children who list false ages or visit the site's public pages, the network's policy is to remove children or information about children from the site as swiftly as possible.
