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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't be livid, nor would I overreact and yell at MIL.

She was meaning well, she just didn't think things through.  (Unless she has a history of overstepping boundaries, in which case that's a different story.)

SImple enough to say "Grandma meant well, but she didn't ask us about our rules.   YOU DD knew the rules and you didn't let Grandma know (or perhaps you did and grandma said not to worry about it..."  There will be some fallout from your DD of course but that just builds character.

meanwhile, I would NOT delete the account.   Last year my 11 year old niece had a problem when a girl in her school created an account in my nieces name, posted some pictures of her, and started friending her older sister's friends and older friends who had FB accounts... all without her knowing about it (at first!) and then caused all sorts of preteen drama.   It was all sorted out, but it showed me the value of claiming a FB page for your child in the most common form of his/her name, just to stake out the "real page" and be able to dissuade forgeries.

Leave the account up, but set it to private and change the password so your child can't access it until she is 13![/quote]

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