Do parents have right to track their child's facebook profile?

[Luke]

I would say yes, a parent can track a child's facebook page, but snooping never seems to have a happy ending. If the parent says '' you can have facebook as long as im your friend'' then that's Absolutely fine, however going on the profile behind the child's back can cause disastrous consequences.

Lets say for example you track your child's facebook without them knowing and you see something you are not happy with on there and confront them, BAM you child knows your snooping, then they will immediately start counter measures to prevent you from doing it again, and trust is irrepairly damaged also. The last thing you want is your child to go into being secretive. Its not worth snooping your child's facebook to catch them swearing or something trivial then the child becomes secretive and puts up countermeasures from finding out anything else, which could be very dangerous.

In my personal experience with my parents they did enjoy snooping rather than talking, I will add that facebook wasn't around when I was a child , but they snooped in everything they could, they found some porn on my old windows 98 computer when I was 12, and they snooped on other things aswell, and bam the trust was gone and I hid everything far better, it really did me a disservice when I became a child alcoholic and drug user and never getting found out due to all the countermeasures I made when I was 11.

In my opinion snooping is lazy parenting and ive never seen it end well for anyone involved.