Facebook is not for children.

@Rosa26 (2618)
United States
August 2, 2011 8:30am CST
Now they are trying to a law that the children don't have access to Facebook, and if they do the parents will have to pay, for that, is true that the children shouldn't have to have access to Facebook, I have seen children 9 years old with Facebook and they are expose to see things, that they are not supposed to see. What do you think? The children should have or shouldn't access to Facebook?
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@Javelin (100)
• Philippines
2 Aug 11
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.
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Kids will find a way to get on there if the parents tell them they can't. I know because my daughter had a myspace account when she was 11. I found it and deleted it. What did she do? she turned to her friends and got on again and spelled her name slightly different which made it more difficult for me to find. I found it and this time she had pics on it. I had it deleted again and took the computer away for a while and thought it over, realized that we could play this cat and mouse game forever but is that how I want to relate to my daughter? NO!!! Bottom line is that I want to know what she is doing and guide her. So we talked and she got her computer rights back and yes...she got a myspace with MY stipulations and ones that she agreed to. I don't care what anyone says...parents involvement is what is needed and no stupid laws punishing parents are not going to save the kids that would possibly find trouble on facebook. What are they going to accomplish? They are going to punish a lot of good parents who are trying to teach their kids how to be safe on the internet and they might do what? fine some of the bad parents? and accomplish what? cause that family more financial distress than they probably already have and those kids are more than likely finding trouble elsewhere so what's the point?
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@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
2 Aug 11
What the law will do is make the parents pay an amonestation for allowing to kids to has a FB, well I think is good because it will make,the parents be more conciuss abiut what the,kids are doing in the internet.
@Javelin (100)
• Philippines
3 Aug 11
That's good but I don't for good.Since a lot of parents likes to spoiled their child so they don't bug them always.So I think paying for it specially for those who have money will not be a problem=)
@toniganzon (72317)
• Philippines
2 Aug 11
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.
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@toniganzon (72317)
• Philippines
3 Aug 11
You must be 18. Kids are smart. They can change their birth date easily.
• Indonesia
3 Aug 11
Yeah, i think you must 13 or above..!!
@toniganzon (72317)
• Philippines
3 Aug 11
When i made my son's account. It was 18
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
2 Aug 11
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..
• United States
3 Aug 11
Well I don't know about being good, but I do my best.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
You are a good mother congratulations! I hope your child always obey you and take good decidions because like I tell to my son «the life is about decisions» but until they can take their own decisions we have to take care of them.
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@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
3 Aug 11
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.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
4 Aug 11
That's why, it is very important to supervised our children's online activity as much as we can. We don't want them to fall victim to any unwanted activity in FB.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Yes, because the accesse to FB is easy and because of this our children are expose to a lot of kind dangerous situations.
@anil02 (24688)
• India
3 Aug 11
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.
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@anil02 (24688)
• India
3 Aug 11
Yes I am agree with you, but we cannot controls peoples but we can control our children.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Exactly.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Yes I think is not about FB because I have seen sites very very dangerous where the children learn from others children about themes that they that they can't deal with that. My lotter friend you won't believe this but my son came to my bedroom right now telling me dessapointed that he saw something very naugthy right in FB, one of his friend posted a picture of his penie hard, could you imagine? I went to see who did that but he told he blocked that guy, so the problem is not FB the problem is the people.
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@tink91879 (742)
• United States
3 Aug 11
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.
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@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
It is true children don't need FB, what do children need? need school, need clothes, need health, need the the guidance of the parents to learn how guide themself in the life, but not a FB, but I want to clarify than I am not saying that FB is bad, What I am saying is that FB aren't to deal with such of drama that diary appear in FB, in FB a woman plan how to pay a man to through an acid to a woman that was dating with her husband, and I saw the FB of that girl she was beautiful, now she looks like a monters, is one eye, one ear, her nose almost, dessapeared, her skin, is burned, she wants to die, and stories like this I see it everyday.
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@Jimeous (858)
• New Zealand
3 Aug 11
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.
• Italy
3 Aug 11
yes its true! my friend it is a new generation of kids today
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Yes, but we have the control on them until they get older, is our responsability to teach the correctly about the positive and negative of the social sites.
• Romania
2 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
2 Aug 11
Exactly and those sites besides to be good to keep the students it have beautiful, and creative sites, and this help the students to keep focused on the studies.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
10 Sep 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
13 Sep 11
Exactly only to children ralated activities. Look my son made a friend in the school and she gave him her FB when he showed me her FB I saw her with a lot of pictures in bikini in her house and some in underweare. I think that her parents should create an account in FB to receive all her updates with whom she is talking see her new friends and of course erase those pictures that make her look so bad and worst to her parents. I check my son FB and ask him to erase or I erase what I think is not convinient for him.
@GemmaR (8517)
2 Aug 11
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.
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@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
2 Aug 11
Exactly that't what I say to my son, because there are a lot of insane people that chat with children pretending being a child too, sometimes block people in his FB people that I think arent a positive influence for my son.
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
11 Sep 11
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
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
13 Sep 11
Ummmm, I understand your anxiety , have gone through all that a few years ago while my children were growing up.I guess we have to take care and see that children are aware of all the bad things that can happen instead of wait for things to happen ...I used to discuss everything with my children and encourage them to share things with me, and it helped a lot...all the best Rosa
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
13 Sep 11
Thanks Kiran. I think we believe in the same because at the end we won't be with them for ever, so they have to learn about what is positive and what is mot. And trust that God will take care of them.
@adhyz82 (36249)
• Indonesia
10 Sep 11
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
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
13 Sep 11
Yes I read about that too this news happened after here in Florida was pronounced in the nwes that maybe in the future they will create a law where the parents that have children in FB will have to pay a fine for allowing the children to use it.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
2 Aug 11
Oh boo hoo! More crying about facebook on mylot! Why are you members of it if you dislike it so much?
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
3 Aug 11
hmmm...and that's a woman...not a child. Don't you think that the fact that she gave over money on-line that this woman maybe was not too intelligent and would have done the same thing in real life? Why blame facebook for this woman's stupidity?
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
2 Aug 11
Well, I have had a FB for two years, and I don't think FB was created with the,intentions that it's been used,so FB is not bad are the people who use this site to say lies to the people, for example I know about a,case of a woman that met a man in that site, and he began to say he needs money that he will the,soon so it will be just borrowing for some days, the man stole 800 dollars to that woman she,went,to,the police, but,because all the info that he gave fake the police coulfn't find him.And people like him are,a lot,the.
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@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
Exactly is not about FB is about the bad or hidden intentions of people, not FB in all the social sites, or not in soclal sites in the life, because in our way we will always fine people negative with bad intentions, so if we can save to our kids bad experiences, is better and they be mature enough to know that not all the people who clam have good intentions are telling the true.
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@06MLam (620)
2 Aug 11
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.
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@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
21 Aug 11
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
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
3 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
That is a good idea, give to the children a facebook just for kids and in that way they can have his FB and we too, but it doen't means that we wiill leave them whithout supervision, we still have to supervise them.
• United States
3 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
3 Aug 11
yes, that is what I say, the responsability is on our shoulders, we the adults, we have to teach the children, guide them, and supervise them.
@walking2010 (1009)
• United States
7 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
7 Aug 11
Exactly children have to stay being children because they will have time to do things of adults, the chil time is the best of our life!.
• United States
8 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
8 Aug 11
Yes, the children have to live the children life not to paste to a screen hours. Thanks for sharing your opinion here.
@veedee13 (242)
• United States
5 Aug 11
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.
@Rosa26 (2618)
• United States
6 Aug 11
excellent point, because is like you say they have the rest of their life to join to the social sites, and then they will be ready to face all the lies, fake friends,and goods things of the internet too.