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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under most circumstances I would agree that a child's (anyone under the age of 18 for this topic) privacy should be respected - no reading a diary, listening to phone calls etc. 
However, in todays world, where information about a child can be made avaible to vast numbers of people with or without permission, requires guidance and supervision by parents.  Growing up today is not like it was when we were growing up, we did not have to worry about pictures of indescretions being taken and passed around school.  Its a reality and no offense to most teenagers but they do not have any idea about how conduct today may effect their life 5, 10  or 15 years later...Facebook is not a private a forum where a child should assume his or her parents will not snoop - that is telephone call, diary and perhaps notes and letters they may share with their friends.  It is a parents responibility to guide their children through the different stages of their life, perhaps the hardest is the teenage years, and their their utmost to prtoect their childs reputation and safety.[/quote]

Facebook becomes a private forum when it comes to reading your child's PRIVATE messages. The messages that the OP admitted to reading were private messages that are not put on the kid's public facebook page. It's as much of a breach of privacy as reading a diary or listening to phone calls. [/quote]

Any child who posts information on his or her drug use and sex use, on Facebook, to 300 of his or her closest friends, has really got NO RIGHT to an expectation of privacy abotu that information.  ANY of those 300 "friends" could share that information with anyone, at any time.

OP< personally I think you should share what you have heard with the parents of the other kids, if possible in a way that doesn't make your wown child a scapegoat.   And you should share what you have learned with the school and anyone else necessary.

If your son loses half his friends because they are doing drugs and fooling around so be it.   There is a time and a place for fooling around and getting wasted, and that is college.[/quote]

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