Would you let your child have a facebook account?

No Idea. My cousin's child (Can't be bothered thinking what relation that is) is on there and I do find myself censoring my updates as a 10 year old might read them!

It seems from his posts and those of his parents that he doesn't use FB that much and only when his parents are around. I think it's not something for a child that young but I also felt it would be mean to reject his friend request.

Facebook has a minimum age of 14 I think.

You see that's one of the reasons I'd be really uneasy about having a child on there. Maybe I'm just a mean and out of touch Mummy but it freaks me out to think of my daughter being able to read what everyone's been up to.

having looked at the member pic for her stepdaughter I'd say she's about eight!

I have close friends now living in Hong Kong & their Daughter (10) is on there. We keep in touch with her that way. Things she does at school etc... I don't think that it's a problem as such & know that since they moved out there, her grandparents keep in touch with her through FB.

My Daughter is 5 & I do show her photos that friends/family have posted that she would be shown if she was with them.

As far as I know the minimum age for a Facebook account is 13 (may be 14 as another poster put but I think it's 13 because my son has one and I was with him when he opened it so I'm pretty sure he put in his correct birthdate). They ask for your birthdate when you register for one so anyone under 13 must have lied about their year of birth to get an account.

My daughter is 13 and I opened an account for her, it wouldnt accept her age at 13 so I put it up.

My reasons to allow her a FB account is that I can see what she is doing, she hasnt and isnt allowed a bebo account. If there are any of my friends I think she would add that I would rather she didnt - pics, status etc I have asked her not to and them to refuse.

I am the wickedest step mother in the world, apparently. This is because I won't allow my 12 year old s-daughter a facebook account. Despite her logical and reasoned argument that "all my friends have them". My friend works at a senior school and cyber bullying is something she deals with every day. My argument is she sees her friends at school every day, she has their mobile number and phone number she has no need to use Facebook/MSN/Bebo as a means of communication.

Not just yet, no. My daughter is 11 next month and some of her school friends have accounts- they have obviously lied in their profile, as I think you have to be a certain age (14?) to join. Luckily my daughter has said she doesn't want an account, as I would have to censor what I wrote/what others wrote to me a whole hell of a lot if we became FB buddies! She is allowed to play guess the sketch on mine with me sat next to her, though.

My son is 11 and very grown up for his age but I would not let him have a facebook account. I use facebook so I can communicate with friends I cant see everyday and dont want him to be able to look at my profile/updates etc. Also even though in theory you can watch what their doing, they can delete posts, hide things and block friends from viewing their home page thus not giving a parent a true account of whats been going on.Someone else mentioned bullying and I think this is a big issue too. My son occasionally goes on Windows messenger but only when I have the time to sit down besides him.

I know that I am probabley one of the more strict parents as my son is not allowed to do things some of his other friends do, he does not really go anywhere on his own or with his friends without a adult present. he went to one of his friends houses and they let him watch Hostel on DVD. he is never staying there again.

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Adam has a facebook account and he's 13. I have him on limited profile on mine, but that's more for other people's moanings of having to watch what they say. He's not allowed to add random people, only those he really knows and his password is (and must stay) the same as his MSN and emails. G and I both know his passwords and I do check his email and MSN logs regularly and he's happy with that. He did have a Bebo, but he changed the password so when we found out he had to log in with us there, I read through everything on it (nothing bad he was just in a misbehaving mood) and it was deleted then and there. He got banned from the internet for a month so he realises we are serious.

I don't mind him having it he does see his friends at school every day, but on cold, dark nights I'd rather he was chatting to his friends online than hanging about outside somewhere. He also uses it to keep in touch with his Dad when he's working away and his uncle in Ireland.