As an adult or parents with a Facebook account and your 13- year-old has just joined and you want to make sure their privacy settings are set correctly. Here are a few tips to help you get started.

The main source of concern would be the public search option to search for your minors profile on Facebook between the ages of 13 and 18. Facebook handles the minor accounts a bit differently than an adult assuming, of course, the correct birth date has been entered for the minor.

Minors do not have a public search listing created for them, but Facebook also respects the "Everyone" setting on the "Send me Friend Request" and "Search for me on Facebook" privacy settings.

They state if a minor has the setting marked "Everyone" on the "Send me Friend Requests" they will respect that - meaning the profile of your minor will be recommended to other users to add.

To change that setting here are the following steps: Account 2) Privacy Settings 3) Connecting on Facebook 5) View Settings 6) "Send you Friend Requests" 7) Change to: "Friends of Friends."

"Search for you on Facebook" for minors it is recommended it be set to "Friends Only" or "Friends of Friends upon parental discretion.

The name, profile picture, gender and network information are viewable when someone navigates to the profile. This is true for both adults and minors. This information is also accessible by Facebook applications as well.

As always Facebook privacy setting rules are always subject to change and do so very frequently. There is no guarantee that your minor will not be searchable upon making the above changes in their privacy settings, but it certainly won't hurt to change them. For more information Facebook Privacy.