How much privacy on Facebook should teens be allowed?

A recent poll showed that 72 percent of parents regularly monitor their kids Facebook profiles. While some may find that intrusive, anyone who is a parent understand the risks of having your kids in a social networking site, where they are open to contact from both friends and strangers. One interesting thing the poll showed was that while 40 percent of teens willingly give their parents access to their Facebook login information, 10 percent of parents log in secretly so that their teen doesn't know that they have logged in. 68 percent of teens polled said they have used privacy settings to prevent their parents or someone else from viewing something on their profile. The question is how far should parents take monitoring their teens on social networking sites? Should they be allowed to exercise total control over what their teenager posts on their site? Would you secretly log into your kid's facebook without telling them? Erase something you found offensive or inappropriate without telling your child? Before computers and facebook parents who wanted to spy on their kids could listen in on a telephone call, or read their diary. The issue of privacy and how to keep kids safe on the Internet & social networking sites is much more difficult now than ever. 68 percent of the teens polled admitted to accepting friend request from people they don't know. Essentially, they are inviting them into their lives to communicate directly with them. As a parent that scares me a lot knowing what I do about the world and some of the people in in. I don't have a child that is old enough to be on Facebook or any other social networking site yet, but the day will come. I'm not sure what I will do, but I know her safety comes first no matter what. I hope that we can come to a good medium because I do believe in the right to privacy but never at the expense of her safety.