More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network!
An article in the BBC today ‘children flock to social networks’ outlines just how many children within the UK have a profile on social networking sites such as Bebo, Myspace and Facebook. The survey carried out by OFCOM, reveals some staggering figures on the takeup of these social networking sites.
OFCOM’s survey then says “ Of 5,000 adults and 3,000 children found 49% of those aged between eight and 17 have a profile”.
The most worrying point that I did notice was that some parents do not seem to realise that children this young require supervison of these sites, without adequate supervison they are effectively putting their children as risk. The article also points out that children should set their profile to private. Interestingly parents do not know how to set their profiles to private in the first instance.
Watch the video report - ’social networking child risk’
