Facebook is not for children.

I they should.This is for the childrens sake.If there is a facebook that is suitable only for children in a certain age then that would be great or maybe they can link the children's account directly to their parents so that the parents can monitor or even control the contents that can exposed to their children.

I have a seven year old kid who has a facebook account since he was 5 years old. Did that have a bad effect on him? Nope, he only logs in to play and he doesn't bother much on what people posted there at all. He have lots of friends, including his classmates and teachers from pre-school. He chat with them but only for a few minutes because he doesn't wanna be bothered with his games. He's aware of facebook's danger and he told me one time that he's in no such danger since he doesn't accept friends at all and he's just there to play his game.

Is this true? Are they really going to start charging parents? I don't allow my son to have one because of the drama, he doesn't need it. Plus if he is just there to play games like one person said, then why not a game where others can't contact him? My son has friends who lied to get a FB, (they also lied to get an e-mail account unless they used their parents) but I won't allow him to have one. In fact, the few sites he is registered with, he uses my e-mail, that way if he gets into something I am suspicious of, I can intervene right away..

I must agreed since nowadays all kinds of people are using Facebook. So, children are easily being exposed to all kinds of unwanted things. It is good if children are not allowed to use Facebook. If thy are allowed to use Facebook, they needs to be supervised by their parents or guardian. It is the best way to prevent unwanted things from happening to the children.

It will not make any difference if face book stop children to access face book on the ground than some matter is not for children. Tones of sites available here which are not for children. So it duty of parents to see what is his child is seeing on sites.

Children dont need a facebook. I understand the teens wanting one since it is a nice way to keep in touch with friends and family, but parents need to check it. See who their friends are and what is being said. I know my brothers ex is atotal mess and talks about raves and pot and sleeping around, shes not even 18 and in hs. I got on my brothers case about this when he was dating her. Her page isnt private so I check it from time to time since she has threatened my fam with harm since he broke up with her. Point is her parents dont look at it. A lot of drama happens on FB and I dont think young children even understand it. Plus its a problem if were having kids go on fb to talk to friends instead of going outside.

My nephews and nieces that are 10 and younger are on facebook, but their content is controlled by their parents. Whether they have a law about it or not is up to the site administration, usually its to protect themselves from any legal proceedings. It is inevitable that this needs to be done for a social network.

I don't think children have anything to learn while being logged in to facebook. It's a waste of time. However, I believe children should have access to the Internet, because it provides useful tools for learning. Teachers and parents have the main responsibility in selecting the appropriate content for them.

Hi, Rosa26. I can agree with most of them banning children from being on Facebook. I know that children should have a separate account that will allow them to not see what is going on at Facebook. My niece had an Facebook account and my sister set it up for her. She wrote on her profile and all. It was mostly positive things, like saying hello to her family and friends. I just think that she was too young to be on Facebook. She was nine years old when this took place. I don't see her anymore on Facebook at all. I believe that Facebook should be for teenagers and up. If a child is on there, then he/she should be allowed to only gain access to children related activities only.

I don't think that children should be allowed to have a Facebook at all. The age that Facebook say a child should be before joining up is 13, and I think that it is (or at least should be) the job of the parents to ensure that their child is only a member of those websites which are suitable for them. You never know who your child might be talking to if you're not watching their every move, so it would be far too easy to let them be online without being able to take care of them, which is why children should not be on Facebook.

Hi Rosa, I doubt if there is anything really bad on facebook. There are far worse things on other sites across the web and children can easily get access to that as long as they are able to use the computer and the internet. How can that be stopped? I feel that parents will have to monitor the children during the initial years and later of course one has to let things take their own course and hope for the best

really but i read in portal news that facebook CEO wants to open the limitations age and it means even children under 11 years can had a facebook account

Oh boo hoo! More crying about facebook on mylot! Why are you members of it if you dislike it so much?

I agree with such policy that children should not have access to facebook as some of the content in it is not suitable for them. However, the policy does not work well because the children can easily have an account themselves by pretending to be an adult simply state that they are 18 or by asking their parents to open an account for them. These are just happening in Hong Kong. Therefore, I think they have to find some other ways in order to block facebook from children.

Well, first it would be a law that could never be enforced. All a person has to do is lie about their age when they sign up to facebook. The only people who would get into trouble for this would be the parents after the fact. After something happened and that's just too late so why do it then. I don't like facebook. I have signed up with them and I rarely go on it once I saw how it worked. I hate that I can read everything that my friends are doing on there. If I can read what they are saying to others that means they can read what I am posting and I don't like that. It is site for nosy people as far as I'm concerned. My niece was getting a divorce and it was ugly. She posted everything about it, including his infidilities so everyone on her friends list, and there are hundreds of people she barely knows, could read all about it. Her lawyer made her cancel her facebook account. He said it was hurting her case. I don't think any children should be allowed on the site but I have to be honest and say it will never stop and there will always be kids on there and there will always be problems with it. Technoledgy has hurt us big time. It was better when there was no facebook or no computers for kids to be on in the first place. Just my opinion, Cheers, Chris

I think they need to have 2 streams for facebook. There needs to be a way to both protect the children but still allow access. I don't want to moderate what is on my site because some kid might see it.

I have read some very good advice on here and I agree with most of it. I think that the number one priority of parents should be an active involvement in their children's activities. Kids are all curious and it is much better to be involved in their lives and know what they are doing than to just let them run wild and assume that the rules of society will protect them and give them the morals and ideals that you want them to have because you cannot trust anyone but yourself to raise your children. As far as Facebook is concerned, I am not sure of the age requirements of the website but I personally don't think any child under 13 should be allowed to join. I also think that the younger the child the more you should monitor their activity. I know that you want to trust your children but they need guidance until they are adults; otherwise might not develop proper judgement and have good morals and generally not properly develop without your participation in their lives. I think that Facebook as well as any other social website has the potential to be dangerous and everyone should always be careful of the amount of personal information that is posted for everyone to see. People tend to forget that we do have predators out there and it just makes it easy for them when all the information they need is laid out for them. We all like to look for the best in the world around us but the ugly truth is that because of the threat of bad people we must be careful even at websites and places that we trust and enjoy. It is not fair but it is life.

I think that children need to stay children, its to much now going on on facebook I mean really what is a 9 year going to talk about on facebook, they need to have a site just for kids where they can go their and play games and have fun with kids their own age I mean really.

Of course Facebook is not for kids, it was never meant to be for kids. But I do use it every once in awhile. I'm just not into it.

I think kids of certain age should not be having facebook and other social networking stuff.First of all they don't have enougj knowledge of what can happen to them if they make one little mistake and plus they should be enjoying their childhood playing games outside and not facing the computer and on facebook.They only have one chance to be a kid and shouldn't waste it on a social networking site.They have alot of time to join social networking sites.