Who's responsible?

I think that both are responsible. Facebook should not allow such things as upload explicit pictures, but everybody has the right to post what they want, since they take the responsability for it. But the parent should be more careful about his child. That's one thing called Parental Control that it works. Or even tell him the dangers of facebook and what we should or not post on facebook. :/

It's the parent's responsibility. This is like blaming schools for not teaching the kids about s3x when it is not their job..

I think the parents should be responsible for this one since that is their child. They should put on guard on their child much more if they are minors. They should not allow their children to use their personal computer. Why on earth that their children knows where their personal pictures are. Maybe the child is using their own personal computer or laptop. They should not leave anything like on their computer when they know that their children will also be using their computer. Facebook have no control over their household. Facebook does not know what they have to upload at Facebook. On the other side, it is good if Facebook has this kind of features where the people who upload explicit pictures to be put on moderation first before the public will see it or before uploading. Like they give limitation to it since there are lots of cases like this that mostly happen on Facebook. I think Facebook should act on it if they want to, that is just a suggestion anyway.

I guess this things will become more and more common everyday, although I really hope and pray not. Parents should be more responsible with their children. The things they do will only allow them as much as supervision can. Of course social networking sites should really pay attention to this issue and start do something about this because this is becoming an alarming trend now. I wish they would have/hire filters for photos being uploaded. I mean for the money they make in traffic, this doesn't cost that much, and would be a cool security feature which could actually at least if not encourage parents, keep them relax.

It's definitely more the parents' fault. It's their child, not Facebook's. And as far as I know, any person younger than thirteen years of age is not allowed to make a Facebook profile so his daughter probably lied about her age (unless they changed that rule and I'm not aware). The problem is people don't like to take the blame even if it is their fault. Due to her age, it was definitely within the parents' control to watch over her Internet usage. There are so many ways to do that now like parenal ontrols and such.

we can't blame facebook at all even many people complain about facebook security or account privacy.in my view, parents responsible for this chase.their kid is below 13 years old and has attitude like an adult.I think parent don't give protection and attention as well for the kids...

It is the parents responsibility to keep an eye on what their child is doing on facebook. If the kid is 8 and has an account they are not supposed to have or 16 and are legally able to have an account....Either way...the parents responsibility. Facebook does not allow that type of photo, but they can't monitor everyone's profiles. Someone has to report the photo's I thought.

I thought that Facebook does not allow photos like that? But I guess according to that the do. But his daughter lied about her age so how can they sue it was their daughters fault.

For me the more responsible for this are the parents, if only they spend time and attention to their children this wouldn't have happen we can really say that the social networking site(facebook) is only just a medium. Facebook is a social networking site to channel the words they want to express. It starts in the family we can't totally blame the facebook.

I don't blame facebook...the kid can upload the photo anywhere and not particularly in facebook alone. It is the parents responsibility to check their kids and their kids activity. We cannot totally blame the parents either..no parents ever wanted or wish to see their kid grow with bad manner or act so badly.

I think both parties should be responsible. Facebook will not be able to track a user if he or she is below 18. Unless they will be making any amendments on the Facebook system. The parents in the first place should have a solid relationship with their daughter. They should have guide her that these things are inappropriate specially on her age. In the end, it is a sad news to hear.

hello, facebook assumes every information given to them is valid because it operates on probability.in my view, the parent should be blamed because he should have installed a parental control application to bur his or her child from uploading vast images.i don't think facebook will be fined for this....

I think what is posted on facebook i just a freedom of speech since you can post any status or pictures of yourself. However, the parents of the child should consider on checking up on the child every now and then especially i they know that the child has a social networking around. Parents could also make an account,not for spying but telling the child about the account and add them as friends. This is one of the steps that my aunt took just to build a closer bond with her daughter and to get to know her activities,friends and thinking. I don't expect facebook to keep track of everyone's photos or videos since there are alot of users from around the world. I guess its time for some parents to take up a step and get involved in the cyber arena.

The parents are responsible for it because facebook can't check wether a user is underage or not when he/she lies about his/her age. On the other hand parents should check the personal computer of their child and teach them about the dangerous effect of internet too. When they are not playing their role to educate their child about internet properly then how can they do like that

I saw that as well. Both should be responsible since parents are supposed to be strict with their kids, yet parents can't be monitoring their kids all the time right? WHen a child means to stray, they will do it somehow. It's out of parent's control. While on facebook's behalf, they should know when such pictures are being uploaded and they should put it a stop to it. If facebook is not stopping it, it can only mean that they are interested in such pictures as well.

parent and facebook admin must responsible about it. especially facebook, they should fix their work on it. poor parent, they too must give their children some education about it.

I think the parents are responsible. They didn't supervise their daughter and she got into trouble, now they need someone to blame for their bad parenting, so they are going to blame Facebook.

Was he filing a lawsuit on Facebook or his child? lol because Facebook is not responsible for the child uploading those pics, I think hes responsible because he's the Father.