Nearly a quarter of children between the ages of eight and 12 are evading the age restrictions imposed by social networking sites Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, a poll of young people revealed … The results suggest that more than 750,000 children are illicitly using the sites–which are supposed to be limited to teenagers and adults – potentially exposing them to risky communications with strangers. The poll of 1,000 children was commissioned by Garlik, an online information company, which said parents are responding by secretly logging on to their children’s social networking pages to detect any reckless online behaviour.
