Children evading Facebook, Bebo and MySpace age restrictions
Filed under: News | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: August 7, 2008 | 4 Comments
It has been reported that almost a quarter of children aged between eight and twelve have been evading the age restrictions that have been put in place from social networking sites. Those sites that children have managed to evade are Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.
These result were taking from a poll which was commissioned by Garlik, it shows that over 75,000 children are illicitly using the sites. The alarming fact shows that children are allowing themselves to become exposed to communicate with strangers. This news is a little alarming.
Parents have been doing their utmost to try and stop this from happening, many have been secretly logging on to their children’s social networking pages to see if they have been doing anything reckless on there.
Tom Ilube, chief executive of Garlik has said “The fact that parents feel compelled to monitor their children on this scale should send a powerful message to the big social networking sites.”
Both Bebo and Facebook have an age limit of 13 while Myspace has set their age limit at 14. Also an alarming fact is that a quarter of 8 to 15 year olds have admitted of having strangers as friends on their social networking page. A fifth of that figure also said that they have met these strangers that they befriended online.
It is now time that these social networking sites did more to stop this from happening. But this is such a hard thing to monitor, this will take sometime to come up with a perfect solution.
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It has been brought to my attention that the mother “Hazel Taylor” has her 11 year-old son “Keaton Taylor” on face Book. I think this is Exstremly iresposable as a mother, allowing her vunrable son to be exposed by adulds. What are you going to do about it??
I am reqesting privacy. I have just sent you an email, about the The mother “Hazel Taylor” allowing her 11 year old son “Keaton Taylor”, to be expossed to aduld explotation. I also think that she should also take the consequenses to be signed off face book!! What is face book going to do about this??
my ma be trippin on a bebo and myspace and im 13 i think its bout time that i get 1 cuz im tired of waitin on her 2 come around uuuugggghhhh
Perhaps a lesson in spelling and English may be a better way to educate the children & parents