I read an article from MSNBC.com that discusses social networks sites like Facebook and how concerned parents are creating their own accounts to monitor their kids’ activity.
“Rod Carveth, 53, of New Britain, Conn., made his teenage daughter include him as a friend when she signed up for MySpace and Facebook. He wanted to make sure she wasn’t posting anything inappropriate or revealing too much personal information.He has had to ask her to remove messages that contained vulgar language.”
It would be pretty easy to set up an account as an attractive yet older man to see if your young under age daughter responds back. I would hope that my daughter would simple click “DELETE” when she notices his age. Realistically, you can pretend to be anyone and see how your teen reacts to eat type of person. That can be a bit PSYCHO, but I’m sure there are parents who have thought about doing this. The news freaks parents out about networking sites, for God sakes! However, being this overprotective can backfire and “embarrass the kids and their friends and create resentment,” as Michael Solomon, a professor of marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia states in the article.
There is always the concern with your child revealing too much personal information on their profile alone, which can be seen by anyone on MySpace if your child sets themselves up to be older than 18. I’ve never agreed with revealing too much personal info on social networking sites, unless your are close to everyone on your friends list (all family member, etc).
Parents are setting up their own social networking accounts to keep in contact with family members as they are great for sharing pictures, emailing & etc, so this issue is kind of tough. Does this mean that Facebook and MySpace will seem uncool to teens and they will eventually cancel their accounts? Probably not.
I can really go on and on about this issue, but I’ll let you read the article. 
Check out the full article here.
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