IPod Touch mail & contacts

Ive just bought a new ipod touch for one of my children. I have set it up on my itunes account, but want a seperate mail account (for facetime etc) how do I do this?
Also is it possible to have their own contacts as presently everytime it is synched mine are on it.

- For FT (and Messages) see:
MacMost Now 653: Setting Up Multiple iOS Devices For Messages and FaceTime
- Regarding contacts, you can't have different unique contacts for different users since the iPod is a single user device. However, she can create here own group of contacts and select in the Contacts app to only have that group show. She can use her Google contacts as her group.

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