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Digital Diaries: Is your pre-teen a ‘digital adult’?

Today, we released the next stage of our Digital Diaries research series, which highlights that the majority of pre-teens are now on mainstream, adult social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

This time around we surveyed 4000 parents with children aged 10-13. Those parents admitted that 58% of their kids had access to a ‘mainstream’ social network

So what are they doing to monitor their children’s behavior on there?

• 60% are looking at their PCs.

• Two-thirds of parents claim to know their kids’ passwords.

• 6/10 access their children’s computers while they are not on them.

However, this still leaves 40% of parents who are not checking their kids’ behavior at all and how effective is monitoring activity on a PC anyway. Our fourth Digital Diaries study also shows that kids are increasingly able to circumvent parental supervision.