Children using Facebook, what for?

I think there is a need of parents regulation on how our children use the social network. Some parents just leave their children to do what they want in the internet. I have a son but I wont not let him signup in Facebook unless when he is an adult or able to do thing by his own.

Its really not neccessary for kids to have a Facebook account, they have better use for the time they spend online, than to lounge around the site. But, if they really want to have one, because their friends are on it, too, parents just need to supervise their usage and I guess that's not going to hurt.

I wouldn't want my kids to be using facebook. There is a lot of facebook that people put on facebook that children should not be seeing. My sister in law allows her son to be on facebook, but she monitors the things he see and does. I think that is helpful and he is 13, but still I think there are things that should not be seen. I would be ashamed if I had a child and seen half the things that some people post of facebook, some who are even my friends, though I plan on removing some people.

I too do not know the reason why kids use facebook. Youngsters in colleges use facebook daily and they are addicted to facebook, chatting with their friends or playing games online. Kids could use facebook to just make friends with the people they know but they should not get addicted to it and send friendship to other girl's profile. I think the generation is changing now, but i had a kid i would not allow him to use facebook unless he told me a valid reason. If all the students of my kids class had a facebook account, then i cannot stop him from having a facebook account.

My daughter is on Facebook and yes, she is underage according to their guidelines. When she signed up many of her friends were already on there even though they were also too young. It seems to be one of those commonly broken rules. Like recording TV shows! We let her have an account as long as it was fully accessible to my wife and I. We both have accounts there and are quite active on the site so we can monitor what she is up to with her friends. Most stuff is just friends sharing music, funny photos plus keeping in touch while travelling, pretty harmless stuff from what I have seen so far. Some swearing on her friends pages, but nothing that she has not heard before.

i have an 8-year-old daughter who is already using facebook. but before she even knew the basics i told that she should not accept friend invites from people she doesn't know. i clearly stated the reasons why. because here in our country lots of young ones got into trouble because of facebook without parent's guidance. and it's all over the news. and i made a condition that she can only open her facebook account if i'm around. she doesn't know the password anyway. right now, she knows what to do, but i still sit beside her everytime she opens her account. her teachers are also using facebook as form of bulletin board to post some announcements. some parents who don't allow their children to use facebook are the one who are going to receive the announcement from the teacher. everything should be with parent's guidance.

i think facebook must re build again the systems for knowing its their user had been reached the minimum age or not i dont think that facebook is suitable for the kids... it was too dangerous

HI katie: I think I would let my kids having a Facebook account. I understand that we can't control the things they watch but not letting them having a Facebook account is not the solution because they will probably open one anyway because they will see their friends having their accounts and you know that when something is prohibited it looks tastier. I would try to pass time with them and to be in contact to know what they are sharing on their account but you can't control these things and kids could access so easily to the Internet both for the good and not appropriate contents ALVARO

I have facebook because my daughter is like 1000 miles from me and has my two grandbabies. So that and yahoo is how I get to see pics and videos of my little baby girls. One day I was on and my husbands daughter has 3 children. Chico the middle boy bless his heart, he has a face book account. I thought I would go look at his page. On his page and he was only 10 at the time says top line...I am bored are you call me and gives his phone number to the whole world. Soon as I saw it I bring my laptop in to my husband being his grandson and told him as my husband really does not understand all the networking sites. He doesnt use them. So I said get on the phone and call your daughter and tell her. He just set there. I said do you want ME to call her? He said you can if you think its a big deal So I did call his daughter and I said girl Chico has done lost his mind. He just put his phone number for the world on facebook. She had never sat him down and told him the rules or anything so after I called THEN she had to sit him down and talk to him. I sure am glad my kids were raised before all this networking stuff I would go insane!

I don't have kids yet. But if i have, i wont allow my kids join facebook. There are too many harmful contents on the internet, even via facebook, and kids have not enough knowledge to know what is good, what is not good yet. I allow kids to use the internet but limited in some websites that are good for kids only. I will monitor kids' surfing on the internet also.

Yes, definitely it became very serious and I allow my child to use in front of me from my laptop for an hour and only once a week. I will give permission to my child to use it properly and not allow to talk with strangers as well as not to use anything out of studies.

Hello friend, You are right. It is wrong to the childrens are using facebook. It is a bad effect of our genarations. Have a nice day.

I wouldn't let children under 12 use facebook-well, at least, not mine, if I had any. The reasons: -Really young kids just can't always decide what's appropriate to be posted in fb... well, most of the time adults can't do either, but 12- kids even more so. They sometimes can't even tell if something they're doing is wrong or not, or they learn a swear word which they don't really know the meaning of... -They share information about themselves which makes hackers' pedos', harassers' and other criminals' (like burglars')way way too easy and quick to them or the family (they know which school they attend, where they live, their mail address, their cell phone number... and you can't know what kind of masterminds there are in front of the computer... from some info of places the kid goes to sometimes they can construct their way home) -Those little kids who are on fb are not the role model types (I know 12-year olds or less who posted pics on which they drink or pose promisciuosly with almost no clothes on), and just because the kids want to fit in, they may follow them (especially if they see that the average guy is going to like and comment on these sl.ttier girls' photos)

Frankly ... They are using Facebook jus to show off...now... Boys. Join Facebook To flirt online...and girls join Facebook to show off their sick duck face poses .. And wait till some random stranger adds them and starts hitting on them ?.. I don't know... They think that's fashion and trendy

i know there are younger kids starting an account on facebook, like my 11 year old niece. she has an account to hang out and chat with her friends. what age is too young to have an account in your opinion?

I don't have kids - but I think children have a difficult time understanding the permanent implications of putting information on the internet. It really lasts forever, and they don't grasp what that truly means, even most teenagers. Parents should take time to emphasize online safety with their children, and not just as a one time discussion. It should be an open dialogue throughout their childhood and teen years.

I don't have children but for me I'd have to seriously monitor the child's profile before I even allowed them to have one. As for videos, I'd be the one behind the camera and if they said anything I didn't like I would be sure to edit it out and warn them against it the next time. In this day and age one must really be careful as to what they share on the internet, and that is regardless of age. Either way I believe 13 is the age when a child should be allowed to have a profile like that as that is also the age when I'd allow them to shave.

I wouldn't have a problem as long as they had controls on their account that allowed only their friends to see their content.

Hi, katie0, Technically, Facebook has a rule against anyone under 13 using the site. Of course, the Internet is a place of anonymity (or so people think), and so it is very easy to lie about your birthday and just say that you are 13 or older. Nobody verifies this kind of thing, since there are just too many people getting on Facebook every minute. How would they possibly check on every person in every country and make sure that everyone is telling the truth? Personally, I don't think that parents should let their children use such things until they have been informed of what can happen if they give out the wrong information, but I think, at this point, it's just impractical. Kids are exposed to technology and computers everywhere they go. Here in Canada, kids are frequently encouraged to use computers and webcams at school, because it is understood that they will need to be proficient at using technology when they are older. Most jobs require this kind of skill and take it for granted. Also, even if parents do not allow their child to use the computer at home, it is very easy for him or her to just go over to a friend's house and use one there. Schools are now making efforts to help children understand that once something's on the Internet, it's there forever, and so it is best to be careful when you put things on it. Still, the temptation to keep in touch with friends and share things like photos and videos is very great, especially when everyone else is doing it, and so it is most important for the parents themselves to have a talk with their children and not just leave it up to the school.

For me personally I don't allow my kids to use Facebook. I don't know that there is a magaical age that is would be appropriate or not I think it's for that child's parent(s) to decide when they feel it is appropriate for them. For me and my kids I don't think they will be getting on there any time soon. I also think that even trying to monitor what a child is doing on facebook your not going to catch everything. I wouldn't want to find out later that my kids put information out there that could harm them, and find out too late.