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In light of http://www.dallasobserver.com/2014-02-13/news/the-facebook-c... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230256 and the credence the legal system apparently gave to Facebook, I suspect it's very important for your children to have Facebook accounts, lest someone create one in their name and destroy their lives



Having an account doesn't protect you from someone setting up another account with the same name. There are legitimately people with identical names, especially at facebook scale.

And the case you're linking to does not involve impersonation. Finally, you can set up an account and never use it so they have nothing to snoop on or use.




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