What age is "normal" to get a Facebook page?

[Acklander]

Thanks for that, I didn't know such a law existed.
So parents who willfully violate or allow their children to violate FB's terms of service are ultimately endangering FB or any other website with same rules as well as IMO setting a bad example for their kids.

Endangering Facebook??? A bit dramatic, don't you think? I'm letting him get a facebook account, not bringing him along on a bank robbery.
If the worst thing to happen in my 10 y.o.'s life is I let him talk to his cousins and grandma on facebook, I'll consider it a job well done.

 

[LilyWDW]

Endangering Facebook??? A bit dramatic, don't you think? I'm letting him get a facebook account, not bringing him along on a bank robbery.
If the worst thing to happen in my 10 y.o.'s life is I let him talk to his cousins and grandma on facebook, I'll consider it a job well done.

If facebook is found to have "allowed" those under the age of 13 on their site, then they could get in trouble with federal law. However, from what I can understand since I did a bit of research on this topic, since the person would have knowingly lied to get around this, facebook would have an out. The problem? The person who lied to get an account would be the one in trouble now.

Are the feds going to crack down on underaged kids on facebook? Most likely not as there are worse things on the internet. However, if a true issue arose from it then they might take a closer look at things.

 

[mamacatnv]

Endangering Facebook??? A bit dramatic, don't you think? I'm letting him get a facebook account, not bringing him along on a bank robbery.
If the worst thing to happen in my 10 y.o.'s life is I let him talk to his cousins and grandma on facebook, I'll consider it a job well done.

Yes, that would be a dramatic scenario but it could happen. I'm not saying it will or that it is even likely, but it could and a parents blatant disregard for the rules is what could start it.
Perhaps nothing ever comes of it, but what about legal costs to FB or other entities if it did? Why should FB have to defend themselves when in reality it was a bunch of parents who willingly and knowingly disregarded the rules?

I am one of those idiots who believes in rules. Don't like them, fine, then find a way to change them but to just choose to pick and choose and to teach your children the same really bugs me.

As a parent, do whatever you want. We all draw different lines in the sand for different reasons. I happen to be a stickler for rules, laws and abiding by terms of service, it is part of my personal ethical code.

 

[mommasita]

I honestly don't feel I have to justify it to anyone. My husband and I agree, and voila! If we did not, then it is between He and I.

I don't judge others, I really don't. And when I hear or see my children starting to judge, I let them have it. Live and let live. Who cares what the Jones' do?

To me it is a LOT like the drinking age. I am in Canada, and it is 18 in our province, hop to a nearby province, it is 19. Who makes it RIGHT OR WRONG MORALLY or any other way.

P.S. I think many would be surprised how many "kids" have FB accounts they have opened at other places than home, and keep it hidden.

 

[punkin]

Great, now the FBI will come calling because I let my 11 yo have facebook.