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Some interesting info on parents and monitoring social networking sites:

While a high percentage of Irish parents say they monitor what their children do on the web, only 46% admitted they really understood what social networking was, despite the fact that 70% of children and young adults under the age of 18 use sites such as Bebo and Facebook regularly.

The research shows that while many parents believe they are monitoring their children’s online activity, less than half are familiar with social networking sites.

This shows a fairly large gap between what the parents know, and what their kids are actually using.

(source article)

Talk about an embarrassment.  A 13-year-old girl’s mother was included in a mass emailing that linked to photos of her daughter posing nude on MySpace.

Apparently, the young girl’s ex-boyfriend sent the picture to a friend and this friend “punished her” after a falling out.

(source article)