UK Facebook: Parents 'help children break age limits'

26 Apr 2012 internet

‘BBC News’ reports that parents are helping their children to set up under-age profiles on social networking site Facebook, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has said. This meant that children were getting involved in social media at too young an age, he suggested. He added that parents had a responsibility to monitor youngsters’ online activity .A Facebook spokeswoman said it set the age limit for setting up accounts to comply with international regulations on children accessing social media.

Source : BBC News