“I guess I’m overly sensitive, but this kind of stuff — arguments opposing what amounts to parental responsibility drives— me nuts. That the government is getting involved just rubs me the wrong way.”
Dittos. My 16-year old boy has FB and my wife (also on FB) keeps tabs on it to a degree by being a “friend” or whatever, and also having his password. She keeps him honest once in awhile. (Last time it was because he made a quip about Obama being dead - “opps, I meant Osama”.) As much as you can’t stand the guy, you shouldn’t be saying stuff like that - especially when your name is attached to it!
My 13 year-old daughters don’t have it, but every so often they mention it. One of these days they will.
And the only on-line computers they can use are in family areas of the house.
My daughter will be 13 in July, so she’s basically the same age as yours. She has FB and I have the password. Except when she’s at school or a friend’s house the only online access she has is either my laptop or my husband’s laptop, but since his is a company one, she doesn’t have much access to daddy’s puter :)
She knows the rules about being online and she asks one of us to check out something, that she’s interested in signing up for before she does it. So far I haven’t said no to anything. about 90% of what she does revolves around various book series that she’s into and involve writing their own concepts of scenarios involving the characters.