Just as I suspected.
Parents use Facebook to spy on their kids (and play Farmville).
This is why Facebook will eventually be replaced (unless they change their ways).
Who want’s their Mom snooping, anyway?
The numbers say that only 11% of parents signed-up for Facebook for the sole purpose of spying.
As a parent myself, if my kids privacy settings are in such a way that I could read their page, without a doubt, I would read it daily!
What do you think of these stats?
[via OnlineSchools]
Ben Miller says
Reading something online that someone has posted on the public internet is never spying. If I read your blog, I am not spying. If I break into your house and read your diary, I’d call that spying.
Kids (and adults!) need to learn that anything they do online can and will be read by someone else. Their parents can do it now. Later, their employers will do it, their ISPs, Google employees, and probably the FBI. The internet is not private.
Also, aren’t parents still responsible for their kids until age 18? It is a parent’s responsibility to find out what their kids are doing.
Eric Dye says
True story.