Should a 13 year old have a Facebook account?

davetrousers

Facebook rules say that the minimum age is 13.

Better to get it from the horses mouth!!!!!

Blackpool_Saver

I doubt they will see or hear anything they are not already seeing/hearing at school.

davetrousers

Though they do not have any checks, nor is there any way to report under-age users:cool:

JC9297

I think this is a rare instance where everybody else really does have one!

thriftlady_2

Thanks for the replies everyone. Do those of you whose kids have accounts end up spending a lot of time looking at their friends' accounts? It's sounding a bit time consuming tbh.

My argument is that he sees his friends all the time anyway, that has their mobile numbers and email addresses, why does he need yet another way to communicate? But then, I expect I'm an antisocial misery :)

jamespir

teeni wrote: »

no they dont

i stand corrected i know with some of the others you had to be 18 but i always thought facebook was the same

Blackpool_Saver

thriftlady wrote: »

Thanks for the replies everyone. Do those of you whose kids have accounts end up spending a lot of time looking at their friends' accounts? It's sounding a bit time consuming tbh.

My argument is that he sees his friends all the time anyway, that has their mobile numbers and email addresses, why does he need yet another way to communicate? But then, I expect I'm an antisocial misery :)

Do you use it?
There is a lot more to facebook than communication.

robpw2

thriftlady wrote: »

Thanks for the replies everyone. Do those of you whose kids have accounts end up spending a lot of time looking at their friends' accounts? It's sounding a bit time consuming tbh.

My argument is that he sees his friends all the time anyway, that has their mobile numbers and email addresses, why does he need yet another way to communicate? But then, I expect I'm an antisocial misery :)

lol you obviosely havnt been on facebook recently lol

i dont have kids but i think facebook is harmless as long as parentel control is excercised

thriftlady_2

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Do you use it?
There is a lot more to facebook than communication.

No, I don't hence not knowing anything about it I do blog though so I'm not completely mediaeval.

What else can you do on it?

thriftlady_2

robpw2 wrote: »

lol you obviosely havnt been on facebook recently lol

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No I haven't, as I said I don't know anything about it, otherwise I wouldn't be asking here;) It seems you have to create an account before you can look at it, or have I got that wrong?