Who doesn't love Facebook. I have it and most of my friends have it; but when m,y daughter wanted it I was quite skeptical. Not that I was worried about inappropriate content, my daughter is good about that stuff. What worried me - and my worries came to fruition, was the CYBERBULLYING. One may laugh at the thought, but honestly, it's happening all over the place. Kids are committing suicide over being bullied, kids can be mean, and the ability to impulsively blurt something out about someone and not have to do it to their face is quite strong. Kids are not required to have fact to face communications anymore - they break up via text, they constantly IM and now...Facebook. I'm not a fan! Not for kids!

Firstly, it is actually against site policy for a child under the age of 13 to even sign-up. If it is discovered that a user is under that age, they will be removed from the site. There is a good deal of sexual content, as well as advertising. Some of this can be filtered out through filters built into the site, as well as ad blocking software. The applications can be even more iffy than the social networking. I found a crass user name on the Naruto game application. I figured seeing it was a kids cartoon I would report it. Unfortunately, the game is not ran by a company that only acquired rights, Crunchyroll. They quoted, "The Naruto game is relatively un-moderated so we don't really change names or anything." This should set off flags to parents. There are also violent apps such as Mafia Wars, in which you obtain bloodied weapons, or take hits out on each other. There are some kid safe apps as well. FarmVille is one of them. If your child is pretty trustworthy, and has a good head on their shoulders, Facebook can be a decent place. It is a great place to talk with your friends, share photos, and play a few games. Just like most of the internet, proceed with a little caution.

well for those who worry about it watch what your kids do. Yea there are certain ages that should not be allowed cause they bring school drama home and then fight over facebook, parents take a active role in your kids life....

It has become the necessary social connection, and the usual slippery slope down for younger and younger audiences (what is it that slides downhill?). As a tech.coordinator for my small school, I am struggling with how to educate kids, parents, and other teachers about age-appropriate behavior on websites -- what should I do when I hear about a fifth-grade teacher encouraging students to set up a Facebook account? The school has no specific policies in place, so I should start the policy-making process. But to my mind, this case is a pretty straightforward issue: Facebook itself declares a minimum age limit. Adults should NOT ever encourage students to bypass that. In addition to that legal distinction, I believe Facebook is an insecure place with shifting sands of privacy settings hard enough for savvy college students to navigate, let alone immature tweenagers. I would strongly discourage Facebook use before high school.

Its ok.

Only kids who have been well educated in cyber safety and bullying should be on this site. Parents must friend their children and have access to their passwords and all content. Be sure kids know that anything on their page can be copied by a friend or shared with others - treat it like a postcard, not a sealed letter. Parents should also walk their kids through the privacy and application settings to make sure that their information is not readily accessible by the general public or by apps or businesses. I use it, and my 15yo uses it, because it's fun and useful. But we monitor carefully - both mine and his! I have concerns about Facebook's changing privacy policies, and I "friended" their policy page to stay informed. My 11yo and 8yo will NOT have access to FB until they are at least 13.

This show is great for teens because it is up to them what they do. Tell them not to be friends with anybody they do not know personally. As long as they do that, it could be ages 11+. If they don't though, there could be very bad content and sometimes even stalkers. Just tell them to be very careful and they will be fine.

Even though, I myself do own a facebook. I am absolutely against the use of it for my children in my house until age 15, with one rule... You friend me. I know my way around a facebook page, therefore most parents who have their children added do not know, that there are specific settings where children can actually block certain content from just YOUR sight. Suppose one of my kids had pictures up from a recent party, they can go to edit settings on the album they posted it in, and changed it to "friends only" and then there is that "except...." button. There they can type in MY name and click save. DONE. I will never be able to see that album. So I do a 1-2 time a month "check up" where I have my kids log on, skim through everything, and tell them to show me something that I think looks suspicious. I have a 14 year old, who begged me to get a facebook, so I let him, because his grades were marvelous last semester, but... I had him give me his login information, since he is younger, and more naive. I want to keep an eye out on him from the random people who sometimes even add me. There are so many things to watch out for on facebook. I've seen some pages of kids, their statuses are about drinking, smoking, parties, ext. They have crude, sexual pictures, girls making out with out girls, its very hard to keep track of the 400 or so people that your teenagers have added. It's a hard site, but I've allowed it in my house, because I myself use it, keep a close eye on your kids if they are on this site. And make sure you know Facebook better then your teenagers, I recommend every parent of a kid on facebook gets a facebook themselves.

shore Facebook is in theory the opposite of basic online rules, you interact whit people, post images and personal info about yourself and if you're not careful and sett security settings it's possible for anyone to read all about you, however facebook is a great way to interact whit friends, family and others, instead of calling all of your friends saying: i got a haircut, you post a simple text on Facebook saying the same, all of your friends can read, comment and like it, you can let friends view your holiday photos whit out having to send all of them a bucket of paper or send a thousand emails, just upload them to Facebook and everybody can see them. Just to add to it Facebook actually do have great safety customization features so if you wanna keep things private it's easy. And yeas, it is a lot of commercial, due to the fact that Facebook get's about 1 000 000 new user every single day, i believe that it's a great market for commercial there and that you get pretty good product placement there, some people are easily affected by commercial's and such people should not use Facebook unless their spending can be controlled. If you have some basic knowledge about being careful on the web, not talking to strangers and such things, Facebook is nothing more than an awesome way to interact and keep in touch whit your friends, family and others.