Should I allow my 13-year-old daughter to have a Facebook account?
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Now that school's out for the Summer, my daughter has asked to create a Facebook account to keep in contact w/her friends (and wants to make it private- so only her friends can contact her there) over the Summer.
Sounds innocent enough, right?
I've had my own Facebook account for a pretty long time now, but rarely go on it because I always seem to (mysteriously) end up on Sodahead whenever I get some free time!!!
So, I really STILL don't know a lot about it!
Soooooo......... just looking for some thoughts/opinions before I decide? (I had originally told her no... but then I started researching it.... reading some things online and being reminded about how kids will sometimes end up doing things behind their parents' back, thus OUT OF SIGHT!! So, better where I can see and monitor......)?
She's a smart girl... but that only goes so far against some things....
....Want to be safe- but want to let her breathe too!! :)
Thanks~!
ADDED today:
I really should've rephrased the question to something more like "What do you think of 13-year-olds having Facebook------I did not intend to "ask" if my daughter should have a Facebook.. after all, I'm the parent and I would never decide something like this based on how many Yes's and No's I got on an internet poll.......... but rather to get ideas- hear things I hadn't thought of yet... from people who've been there.. and to brainstorm... etc...
I've been reading articles online and see that many people HAVE had positive experiences w/their kids.. but still just don't know.
Sounds innocent enough, right?
I've had my own Facebook account for a pretty long time now, but rarely go on it because I always seem to (mysteriously) end up on Sodahead whenever I get some free time!!!
So, I really STILL don't know a lot about it!
Soooooo......... just looking for some thoughts/opinions before I decide? (I had originally told her no... but then I started researching it.... reading some things online and being reminded about how kids will sometimes end up doing things behind their parents' back, thus OUT OF SIGHT!! So, better where I can see and monitor......)?
She's a smart girl... but that only goes so far against some things....
....Want to be safe- but want to let her breathe too!! :)
Thanks~!
ADDED today:
I really should've rephrased the question to something more like "What do you think of 13-year-olds having Facebook------I did not intend to "ask" if my daughter should have a Facebook.. after all, I'm the parent and I would never decide something like this based on how many Yes's and No's I got on an internet poll.......... but rather to get ideas- hear things I hadn't thought of yet... from people who've been there.. and to brainstorm... etc...
I've been reading articles online and see that many people HAVE had positive experiences w/their kids.. but still just don't know.
Read More: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/facebook-is-work...
Top Opinion
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Yankee Traveler 2012/06/18 09:27:48Yes- You should let her get a Facebook account
+3Do not allow her to post any pictures of herself. Her profile picture should be of a cop or some form of law enforcement symbol. Her father should be listed not by name but by career, such as the P.T.F. (pedophile task force ) Her pictures in her profile albums should be of her and her fathers favorite pets: German attack dogs, pit bulls, and/or Doberman etc. The point is to protect her. if you don't know who her friends are, get to know them. If someone is a bully of course don friend them. Set up all of the blocks that Facebook has to offer. Read all of their suggestions of what to do to protect your child. Be her friend also, insist on that first or nothing goes. Monitor,monitor,monitor. She friends know one without your permission. If someone wants to friend her and she doesn't know them and you don't either..........well that's simple. Encourage aunts,uncles, and adults that you trust to friend her also and makes sure that they can and will monitor her and friends as well. first sign of resistance end it all.
Thanks~ Good luck to you too!
SHE WILL WATCH THIS VIDEO! I PROMISE YOU! Whether I decide to let her or not!
BTW- Her facebook account would be only a small group of friends and family~
I did NOT want my girls to have facebook acounts and their Dad did. I don't do facebook. But he does. So the agreement was YOU monitor what they are doing on there. And he does... If he was not a good monitor I would have said NO. Too many kids screw up their lives by posting things they can not take back and will always be accessable to someone who knows computers.
Good luck my friend, this is a tough one.
She is a very smart kid- so I mostly worry about peer-bullying-type things... though her profile would be private, I worry that there's still a way for that to happen? Someone here earlier said something about kids putting things out there that they thought would be private.... come to find out- others could see it.
It really is a tough one! She just wants a way to keep up with friends over the Summer, and that's where they all seem to be! ://
My children are all adults now and the computer thing wasn't much more than a tool to do homework with back then. But if my child was wanting a Facebook account, personally that would be the only way thy go to have one other than that.............NOT!!!!!
Thank you, my dear, sweet friend!!
Contract!
Check!
Thanks!
You tryin' to be funny? grrrrrr :P
#2 is... It would be private as possible.. as a way to keep in contact w/friends over the Summer... and I still haven't decided. :)
I would think that there would have to be pretty strict time limits too...
(It was NOT her friend who said it, but a bully who had hacked her friends account!! She was beside herself thinking her friend posted that. It has been fixed, but ..... Of course when we were kids it was just in person, spoken not typed, it still happened, but this is something that the public could see from what I understand, and I was very upset.)
http://www.quitfakebook.tk
She's a self-proclaimed nerd, and although she has friends, I have heard of some not so nice 'acquaintances' who have teased her in the past. And you know how many teenage girls are... one of 'em gets mad at you, and they all follow... (not always, but sometimes). But then I worry about all kids for that reason, not just mine. It's so sad- but that's another story. (Youtube - "If you knew the real me")