Not long after my daughter turned thirteen she approached me about creating a Facebook account. You can imagine all the thoughts that run through you're head about serial killers, creepers & snapshots of some of Chris Hansen's guest.

This prompted my wife and I to sit down & discuss the pro's and con's of granting our daughters wish by giving her a Facebook account. In the end we decided we trusted her and to go ahead and let her have the account under the following conditions;

· We have to set it up.

· The messages/notifications will be linked to our email account.

· She can't approve someone she can't talk to on the phone or have met in person.

· Facebook Chat: Doesn't notify you via email.

· Secondary Accounts: Most teens have a "parent" approved account and a not so parent approved account. It's easy to grab a Gmail account and setup a new Facebook account

One day she stepped away from the computer and I just happened to be walking by when a chat screen popped up. I noticed it was from a boy, no big deal. My curiosity however caused me to pause just long enough to read the next message from the "boy" asking my daughter to send her a picture. I'm not talking about a photo with you're Grandma either.

I quickly sat down and read the whole conversation. It turned out that the be boy was trying very hard to get her to send a nude picture. Reading over her replies however I was a little proud (if you can be in a situation like this) that she avoided the requests by trying to change the subject then eventually it looked as though she ignored him. My blood pressure & my primal Marine urge to kill began to calm down.

While her response was good considering the topic. The message made me to peak behind the iron curtain of my precious teen and into her private life. I started with just flat out asking her what was going on and why this boy wanted pictures of her? She replied with something to effect that she didn't like him and he was a loser e