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In a world where Tori Spelling's 3-year-old son has a Twitter account and toddlers are making Lady Gaga videos on YouTube, it's increasingly difficult for parents to refuse their kids access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, YouTube, and other social networking sites.
And yet we're also living in a world in which 1 in 5 U.S. children say they do things online that their parents wouldn't approve of, according to a 2007 Norton Online Living Report. We know that kids are supposed to be 13 to use social networking sites, but even ultra-responsible parents often throw in the towel and let their kids fake their birthdates and create accounts.
Why? In the words of one mom who let her 11-year-old daughter have a Facebook page, "All her friends were on it."
Why? In the words of one mom who let her 11-year-old daughter have a Facebook page, "All her friends were on it."
Source: Common Sense Media
