Oh yeah, your 13 year old is way more tech savvy than you are. Don't think they don't know ways around your safeguards. Even taking away their tech, they can grab a friends phone and be online in a snap. Even if you setup the account for them and give it as a gift, and built in safeguards that they cannot overcome, it only applies to THAT ACCOUNT. They can always make another.
So the best security is be involved, communicate, and discuss consequences.
In reply to pinchvalve:
yeah, but the original question was about a 7 year old, or what is now a 10 year having an account... an that account will say she is an adult, before she is even a teenager. and Yes the parents set the account up.
My kids have them, but honestly they both only play games. My wife plays Drill Sargent on supervision (we're both friends, we both read over shoulders, we both get paranoid about strange things, ect...). For my part I've told them both that until they're 18 they live in a police state. Get used to it. They're good kids, and take the hint well. My daughter has more misadventures than my son, but they're barely rated PG. So far so good! 
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