Would you let your six- or nine-year-old have an account on Facebook? How young is too young?

Most of my grandkids have facebook acocunts. I don't allow anyone to friend them that I don't personally know or a friend personally knows, like my best friends mom is friends with the kids so they can be neighbors in the games, she lives in another state but I trust my friend to know her mom and say if she's safe to friend the kids or not. I made their ages much older than they are but kept the original day and month.

The computer is in the living room with a picture of Christ above the monitor along with some Gary Olsen prints. They are never on the computer, even just playing games, without me or my husband in the living room. While they are on facebook they are on playing farmville, farmtown and cafe world with relatives, friends, and siblings that live in other homes.

I selected on the privacy settings that only friends can see information about them and I left everything blank, no personal information at all, my choices for network were one of 2 large cities in my state and both are hundreds of miles away. When you enter their name in your search you get a page up with a gray screen that says "XXX only shares information with people they know" "Would you like to send a friend request?". I have about a third my 157 friends that have their kids on too.

Only some of them are friends with my grand kids. They don't need to be friends with my friends from high school, although they are good upstanding people, most are Baptist preachers or work for the Baptist General Convention.