User blog comment:Wikian13000/Its illegal to be on here under 13?!?!?!?/@comment-4640094-20101027120540/@comment-3200944-20101027121324

Well they right out state that it's optional, they never directly ASK for the email. They tell you "you can get a newsletter and recover your account if you put your email in" and that's not all that necessary if you're careful with passwords, security, all that stuff.