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70% Of All Parents Spy On Their Children, Do You?

A recent study by the ID protection website Garlik has found that around 70% of parents admit to spying on what their kids are doing online. The biggest worry is that their children are befriending strangers using the new social networking platforms such as Bebo, FaceBook and MySpace. Even though these networks have a 13/14 year old age limit Garlik found that an estimated 750,000 children who are under that age are still using the social networking websites.

Perhaps even more revealing is that 26% of those parents asked admitted to going as far as creating their own profiles on Bebo and FaceBook in order to keep an eye on what their children were doing. It's no wonder really with children spending on average an hour a day logged into social networking websites.

Whilst it is maybe a little ironic that an ID protection website have ran a survey on "spying", personally I'm very glad that they have. The more that parents realise that it is OK to look out for their children online (exactly as they would if they were playing in the street) the better as far as I'm concerned. In fact I only wish a few more of the parents near us would start, out house is being bombarded at the moment with FaceBook and BluBet invitations from children as young as 7!