How do I convince my parents to allow me to get a facebook?

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Face book is not a good idea. If you put your info and thoughts on there it will come back to bite you. Even if you detete everything; it is stored some where else. Then when you want a job you get turned down because of somthing you wrote on there. private IM's can be intercepted easily ans stored (companies do it all the time; in hope that some day you will apply for a job and some one will need this stuff). Trust me; 100,000's of people get turned down. It may seem unfair now; but you will even more disapointed when you can't get into a college.