parents must have facebook account to monitor their children activities

yes, they should and keeping their childreen save, :)

well if they want to then they should, some children are young and innocent and also behave foolishly (my appologies) when it come to dealing with the mean and wicked outside world. In such cases i dont see anything wrong there. Shez only trying to watch her daughters back and i admire her for it though many children wouldnt like it,im not sure i myself would.

Honestly its not going to really work that much. The child can still be sending dirty private messages or chatting with people and the parents would have no idea. Just being someones friend does not mean that you will know everything they do on facebook but I suppose its a step to seeing at least what things they post or the kinds of pictures they post. I know if I was young I would NOT want my parents on my friends list but if it was the only way they would allow me to be a facebook member I suppose I probably would have done it I dont know.

It's a good move, provided that the parents use an 'incognito' profile to add their children. Meaning they use a fake name so as not to alert their children that they parents are online. That way, it'll be more efficient to monitor them. Well this's just my opinion.

For me it is a good medium of assessing ones daughter not to join those miscreant people online who are of the negative motive online. Though you need to do this with patience and maturity.

That's exactly what my friends' parents are doing! but I don't think it works at all because after their kids found that their parents are monitoring their lives on facebook, they won't post anything on facebook anymore and told their friends not to post anythings about them as well. Some of them may even create another account and hold the old one just for their parents.

hi EdnaReyes, Yes, I think that all parents should have a myspace and a facebook account just for that reason. I would never have gotten on to either of those sites if not for my daughter. She was 12 and I had no idea that she had a myspace account and I really didn't think she had pics on the computer. At the time we did not have a camera or a scanner or any way for her to put these things on. Well, my stupidity was brought to my attention by a friend who printed out some conversations and pics of my daughter and brought them in to my work to show me. Seems she had done all this at a friend's house. So needless to say, I got onto myspace and later on to facebook. I found a lot of my own friends on there as well.

I think that it depends on the child as to whether an account needs to be made to spy on them. I don't think it's right to spy and a better way of going about it is to make the child give the parents their password for facebook. Sure it would be irritating for the kid but it would also make the kid not put things on the facebook that the parents would disapprove of. Of course that is also a privacy issue there as if the parents can log in there's no telling just what they might see or pilfer through. I'd have to say the best bet is to do as number one said, and that is to instill good values instead of spying. Spying is just like telling the child you don't trust them, which isn't good either.

I guess this is a right move. I have many cousins who have joined facebook at a very early age. The fact that You can have fake ID to make an account to the sites is a minus point of the site since little teenagers are misusing the site. It is a good move to monitor the child's move. This way she has her freedom since she is using the site and also the mother is aware of the child' activity. Also had she just told her to stop using the site then the girl would have made a fake account without her mother's consent and then it would have been difficult to watch out her moves. So I guess it's a right decision.

Well,that's too bad. But,Facebook has privacy options and maybe her daughter can do that so her mom can not access to her account,or her photos. The best thing to do is talk to her daughter. I also had 3 kids and they're young teeners. I need to adjust a bit for their thinking and midset. I had to be their friend and not just being a mother as well. Monitoring kids is not easy,but once you will become their friends,i am sure it won't be hard to get along well with their activities.

I think its ok... and besides children should not worry when their parents monitoring their activities because itd for their own good unless they proved that they can be trusted. As a gaughter, my mom's protectiveness brought me to this kind of life that I will never neglect, I finish my studies and never let myself get in to trouble. I pray God will bless all mothers heart to be like that... Because I pity those children whose mothers don't care about them. There's no biggy when mothers are checking on their babies unless the babies do something not so good and afraid to be caught. hehehehehehehe! God bless you and your children. God said in the bible, disciplined your children and don't pity them as you rebuke them because it is for their own.

yes i agree on that,but not all the parents know how to use computer. not all parents have computer in there house, will i guest they can monitor there children without facebook,they most find there own way to monitor there son or daugther.

This is exactly why I block my facebook to the public and only my friends are allowed to view my page. However, I believe I am old enough to do what I please as long as I am not getting in trouble and doing something stupid. I do not drink or smoke but my parents assume I do but I do not. I am not one of those kids who post pictures of themselves smoking and drinking because they think they're so cool. I have friends who do and I think it is STUPID. I think it is good for a parent to monitor but then again the child needs privacy.. it is nice to know if they are lying or telling the truth to you but if you tell them you know what is going on- they are going to hide everything and you won't know what is happening. I guess, you can snoop around so you know what is going on with her but you cannot simply tell her and ground her (or else she will rebel more).. Good luck...

Yes, I do. There are many people who try to befriend teenagers nowadays. She can monitor who are her fb friends and perhaps help her daughter block those they do not know.

I think it's a wasted effort because her daughter could just create a pseudo account for her mom to spy on and have a completely different account for her own 'privacy' away from the parent's eyes. That would be simple because it's easy and free to sign up several names you want. If they really want to know what's happening to their daughter, they should have started doing so when she was younger. Properly instilling values would be a good start for most families. But however we may want it, we can't really decide for what ever happens to our kids. We could only advise. Further, I'd feel like my mom is really a loser if she starts doing that to me. My parents and aunts do have Facebook accounts, but it's because they have friends as well, it's not for the sole purpose on spying on us. There's no reason to spy because they know what we are up to, not because we're required to say so, but we share our experiences with them openly.

I think its a really good move, because, my sister is also fond of facebook, I always tell my mother to keep a close on eye on her facebook activities... Though my problem is different from you, facebook is affecting her studies,so I think, parents should have one facebook account to monitor activities of their children... Yes, some people may disagree my thoughts, but this thing is very important...

I honestly believe technology is making a bit harder for parents today, and well as parents we must do all and everything to protect our children. If it means going to further measures to monitor, absolutely.. See they are our children and I see no problem monitoring their activities, it goes hand in hand with as long as they live under our roof they must follow rules. There are so many crazy wierdos out on the net and for her safety your sister must do all to end all unsafe measures. My motto better to be safe than sorry.

Yea i have heard about this thing before on tv news channel here, according to me it is a right step to have an eye on what your children are doing on facebook, by this you can be sure about that the children are not doing anything wrong there