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post #11 of 28
8/11/12 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by melsb View Post

One of our former boys has an account for his six month old daughter. It is just their way of sending out pictures of their daughter to friends and family. I didn't do it myself, DS was born when MySpace was popular, but I most certainly am not going to look down at them because they did. Can you imagine me sending them an email, "You know your daughter must be thirteen years old to have her own account"? Haha. They would rightfully delete me and continue on with their daughter's account.

What I don't understand is why don't the PARENTS just post the pics on their acct. I still think it's stupid.
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post #12 of 28
8/11/12 at 11:27am
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The dad was in prison for a few years, when he got out he had his own FB page and it attracted a lot of people from his past, people he was attempting to get away from. I suspect this was his approach to sharing his daughter with the healthy people in his life.
This couple is also a younger generation than I am. They have grown up sharing their lives on MySpace, FB, the Internet and texting in general. Could just be a generational thing too.

You could be right about that. The friend I was originally speaking of is right around 25. The dad could also have just tightened up his privacy/security settings. 

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post #13 of 28
8/11/12 at 11:36am

Perhaps they are starting the child's timline out and will turn it over once she/he is old enough.  This way there are photos dating back from when she was little.  I don't agree with it and if I did do something like this, I would only friend family and make it very private.

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post #14 of 28
8/11/12 at 11:37am

my neice has a fb page, she just turned 12 and her birthday was a few days ago, it said she was 22!  LOL

 

no, I wouldn't do it, but fb is becoming so popular that I am not surprised that it's getting younger and younger.  

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post #15 of 28
8/11/12 at 11:53am

I'm 27 and still find facebook and many social media sites completely asanine, I think it's a personal choice not generational.

 

Facebook clearly states, 13 years old. By allowing a child younger than that (Cookie, your dd is 10 isn't she? I'm not singling you out, you just happened to post 'yes' first) to have a page and regularly access the site I think it's just sending them the message that they don't have to abide by rules. Frankly I think it's really stupid and a bad choice.

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post #16 of 28
8/11/12 at 3:40pm
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Facebook clearly states, 13 years old. By allowing a child younger than that to have a page and regularly access the site I think it's just sending them the message that they don't have to abide by rules. Frankly I think it's really stupid and a bad choice.

I've always thought this too. I know that's not always a popular opinion on here, and people have a myriad of excuses for why it's okay to allow their children to lie, but I've NEVER gotten this. If I tell my child it's okay to lie on an application, what's to keep them from doing the same thing in the future. And I'd have no one to blame but myself for allowing such behavior. Like I said, I know there are many on here who disagree, but I think it's a bad choice too.
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post #17 of 28
8/11/12 at 3:47pm

I wouldn't create one for a toddler.  When they're that little, why bother?  The parents are going to be the ones using it, not them.  Just post their stuff on a blog or on their own FB page.

 

We did give in and let dd get one this year.  She will be 13 this fall so we bent the rules by a few months.  I monitor everything that's posted, just to make sure everything she does is OK.  So far, so good.

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post #18 of 28
8/11/12 at 4:00pm

I'm still making my kids wait until they are 13.  My daughter JUST got her first phone and there are lots of rules tied to it, like I get to read texts when I want to, and it gets taken away for bad behaivor, mouthiness, ect.   Now that she has a phone, she doesn't bother me as much for facebook. LOL  However, she still has to wait to be on facebook. I do let her occassionally play farmville on my page, I don't play.  And Yes I post pictures of her on my OWN page, no need for her to have her own right now.
 

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post #19 of 28
8/11/12 at 4:41pm

Gosh no.  My ds has a cousin that is just a few months younger than him (he's 10.5) and she has her own and 'requested' me as a 'friend'.  I never met this kid in my life, nor do I approve of kids having Facebook accounts and all the trouble that could cause, so I just ignored it.

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post #20 of 28
8/11/12 at 4:53pm

No, that's what my account is for. We'll be sticking by the 13 yo rule, if FB is even around in that many years.

 

Make a baby blog, if you want to do that. Facebook can shut down accounts for people under 13, or animals etc at any time without notice.

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