The cry of many a teenager I know but I'm in my late 30s and my mum turned 63 today and celebrated by opening a Facebook account. I know people in thier 60s (and over) are very tech savvy but my mum can't programme the DVD without a support group of at least two of us. I should have been warned - a few weeks ago personal calls were banned at her office and suddenly she kept popping up on YahooChat. This coincided with her friend - the 'Joneses' in our family's 'keeping up with the Joneses' scenario - also joining YahooChat, shortly after she appeared on Facebook. I felt a bit left out actually as she didn't mention her intention to me and the first I knew about it was when she sent a friend request to my husband - I had to search for my own mother! Unlike most teenagers I have nothing to hide - I'm actually looking forward to introducing her to Facebook's many delights - just don't mention Twitter to her ...
On another note I helped out in my son's class at school today and the 5 year olds were learning about the Internet - just last week I signed him up for Lego Magazine (for 4-6 year olds) and was asked for the child's email address! So how old should children be before they are introduced to email and social networking sites (thankfully Facebook is limited to over 16s, though I know a 10 year old relative is on there 'to play games')?
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haha yes, mine is too and sometimes I forget that she is! But I never mention Twitter to mine - yikes, I wouldn't want her following me everywhere.
My sons use Facebook as do most of their friends. I thought the official age limit was 13 or 14 but I've never looked. I'd rather they were interacting online on Facebook where I can keep an eye on them and where we are kind of part of each other's online worlds. It works well. And they love Farmville. I get cries of "oh we can't go to school yet, cos I haven't harvested my crops!"
But I think five is a little young for emailing or Facebook or Twitter! Just imagine how long it would take them just to type "hi". Watching my 7 year old use a keyboard is a very painful experience.
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