How can I prove to my mom that I'll be responsible on Facebook, and that it's a safe website?

[ℓιz.]

I really would like to create a Facebook page to keep it touch with old friends, my church's youth ministry, and my sister, who is away at college. However, my mom is afraid I'll be stalked by a pedophile if I join a site like Facebook. I've tried telling her that, unless you add someone as a friend, they can't see your profile. She still refuses.
Any tips?
Thanks guys.

[Jules G]

The short answer is; you can't because it isn't. The very nature of the openness of a social network site makes it inherently, extremely insecure.

[Excessivecaption166]

personally i think Facebook sucks but you can set it to where only your friends can see your profile noone else will see any pics/comments anything also you can deactivate your profile if you dont like it

[Laura]

When you make a Facebook, you can change around your privacy settings so that
1) you can set it to where only friends may see you profile and pictures,
2) You can change your settings to where your name does not even show up if there happened to be anyone searching for someone with the same name as you (which is extremely likely)
3) Facebook is not like a chat site where anyone can chat to anyone else openly. You may only chat openly in disscusions from fan pages or group pages. And even then you are actually only POSTING something and not actually chatting, as seeing replys to your post requires refreshing the page. You can also only chat to those who are your friends and if someone random happens to request you as a friend, not only can you ignore them, but you can also mark them as unknown.

All in all, Facebook is pretty safe.
Hope this helps

[cakes]

Will it help if you tell her she can have the password to your account so she can see everything you see and do?