facebook age limit

[MoralDefective]

SIL lives in Australia...niece aged 8 years has just friend requested us....aibu to be .While our Fb's are fairly dull,some of our friends are quite funny,in an way that is not appropriate for children,and besides,i just think it's weird to let your 8 year old do this.

I wouldn't be happy for an 8 year old to see my FB profile. I'm not up to anything naughty but it's not all appropriate for someone that age. Anyway, the FB age limit is 13 so your niece shouldn't be on there. I would either decline the request or set up your privacy so she can't see anything on your profile.

I have received Fb from children. I refuse to accept them. FB says 13y upwards BTW on their own T&C. TBH not sure I'd be happy with accepting an under 16y as a friend at all. My status's are fine, but what others write on FB may not be suitable.

DD is 8y and there is no way I would allow her to have a FB page, regardless of settings, etc. Time enough when she is older. For mow she can stick to Mathletics and Club Penguin.

FB age is an american law about chat rooms. Even Disney are not allowed to have under 13 year olds on there forums. My DD turned 13 at the weekend and I had an email from them to say DD would now be allowed to use the forums.
Saying that I think it's a nice way of keeping in touch with your niece.

I just spoke toDD(22years old) and she has had a request too....totally inapropriate imo...she says the age limit is 16 and won't be accepting her 8 year old cousin....there may be trouble ahead when SIL finds out

The age limit is not 16 moraldefective it is 13.

Ok 13....but the child in question is 8..

I was looking at this issue in relation to a question which came up at work.

According to Ofcom figures, FB is the sixth most visited website in the UK by under 12s.

Age limit is 13 and over!

maybe your sister is just looking at it as a way for your neice to keep in touch with her family as she is so far away.. Could you both not except her but block her from seeing certain info...

I agree that it could be a way of keeping in touch.....but 8 years old...wtf..there are other ways of keeping in touch....my DD,and DS1 and DS2 are alot older than their cousin(22,20 and 16)..it just seems so wrong and exposes children to so much,not just abuse but totally inappropriate,age related sites and 'likes'...she already has a link about a man being evicted from his home by a toddler who keeps saying 'bitch'...it's called'Bitch baby'...am i just an old fashioned prude

accept but make a list(you can do it in edit friends) and block them from seeing stuff you don't want them too(and block them from showing up in your news feed)

You can set up your privacy settings so that different people can see different things.

If your niece is on Facebook at 8 (and as others have pointed out it does have a higher age limit which you might want to mention to your SIL) I would be friends with her anyway so you can keep an eye on anything untoward. My sister's son is on there (nearly 13) and she likes anything he does and is friends with all his friends.

Whether we like it or not, this is how 'kids today' communicate - they don't have the same awareness of privacy that we do and it is not going to go away just because we don't like it. Emails are quite an old school way of communicating these days

Sorry,but i just can't accept the 'this is how kids today communicate' reasoning....facebook opens up so many other links and channels and how many parents/people, understand how to block everything..i certainly don't, and struggle with some of FBs instructions....currently i can't work out how to delete something i 'liked' months ago and don't want anymore.....maybe i am just an old fart

(They've hidden it. Click on the link that you LIKE, scroll down and UNLIKE is in small text on the left.)

It's your call on the friend request.