Secret Facebbook Groups...??

[mattoc66]

I have just learnt that these groups exist. You can only join these groups by invitation only and will not show up in any search you make. Now as a parent of a 13 yr old girl who regularly goes on and uses this popular networking site surely these groups need to be made open or banned. One of the provisos I made before allowing her to sign up was that I could be added as a friend and monitor and check who she was adding as a friend like any concerned responsible parent would. I'm pretty sure that she hasn't joined one these groups and talking to anyone sinister but now knowing these groups exist, isn't it dangerous that a parent cant view the content and members of such groups if their child is in one??

[milly143]

I still can't say it really concerns me. As you say, you would need to be friends with someone dodgy in the first place and the chance of something bad happening to a young person because of that, assuming their privacy settings are as they should be, is slim. It would be more of an irritant then anything.

[sophie_1003]

Oh yeah; agree with you there but it's an aspect of FB that not many users know about (I didn't until late last year when all the stuff at uni happened!) and if parents want to keep an eye on their child's internet use it's probably best they have all the information they can; what worries me is when stuff like the situation I described happens where you can seemingly support a group just because you're friends with the person who set it up; many of the people I knew were horrified to find they were supporting the idea of getting their colleagues into trouble!

[milly143]

Yeah I agree with you there Sophie. That could cause some pretty uncomfortable situations.

[bushbaby_de]

You could buy a keylogger program then you can see everything she types when using your computer.