Social networks are practically crawling with kids, according to a new report from the UK's Office of Communications. What's more: the children are often on them in violation of the networks' rules, and their parents pay little attention.
Then, "Two-thirds of parents claim to set rules on their child's use of social networking sites, although only 53% of children said that their parents set such rules." Neither of these numbers are especially high, and the discrepancy between them suggests that some kids aren't being held back in any way.
On the (potentially) bright side, it seems like the UK is preparing to do something about these problems. Ofcom's report comes less than a week after the coverage, and focus more on issues of education than regulation.
It wouldn't be surprising if Bebo, Facebook, and MySpace took independent action in response to all the attention.
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