If you do it in peer-level approach, rather than a condescending control approach, you'll have much more success.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Don't go on and engage in surveillance. That makes things really hard for kids to engage with you as a parent.

There's something new going on in this networking technology, and it's really fantastic.

You don't want to create controlling situations, because what these kids are trying to do is create a space outside of parental control.

I generally think students have these pages to express themselves and interests, but not necessarily what their actual reality is... they might talk about drinking a lot, but don't actually drink. Youth are trying on different faces to see how others react to them.