Putting a 13-Year-Old Child Safely on Facebook

Even for an adult, Facebook’s privacy settings are as daunting as trying to do your taxes with an abacus. For teenagers, unaware of the consequences of their online actions, using Facebook incorrectly could potentially leave a digital trail that might follow them all the way through high school, college and into the real world. What’s more, there are also creepy people out there on social networks. First, you should sit down with children and explain that anything — stress the word anything –they post can and will be used against them on the Internet. Teenagers should assume that there is no such thing as private on Facebook.