My 10-year-old nephew is on Facebook!

Dear Cybersorter,
My 10-year-old nephew recently popped up on my Facebook chat. I was horrified. I thought kids had to be over 13 to use Facebook.
You should highlight how dangerous this can be in your column. He could have talked to anyone.
MB

Dear MB,
Your nephew wasn’t talking to anyone, he was talking to you. To do so he would have had to have requested friendship and you would have had to accept it, or the other way round. So, unless you harbour a deranged ill-intent towards your own nephew, he is likely perfectly safe.
However, you are right about Facebook’s policy being for 13 and over, but Facebook is not an omnipotent being. It’s a platform. You should talk to his parents and make sure they monitor his internet use. Suggest to them that he should be on a safer social network for children, such as togetherville.com. Here, grown-ups sign in through their own Facebook account and can monitor everything that their child is doing online.