Monday, December 19, 2011

Parents break rule to help young kids join Facebook

Moms and dads don't know or don't care about age restrictions on websites, study finds

Excerpt from the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 14, 2011

By Jessica Tobacman, Special to the Tribune

"Nancy Gerstein is a savvy marketing executive who knows a lot about Facebook. She supervises corporate Facebook pages for her company's clients.

So Gerstein had no qualms when her 11-year-old daughter recently told her that she had created an account on the social media site while she was at a sleepover with a friend. She even helped her daughter finish establishing the Facebook page." (read more)

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