According to a recent survey by UK regulator OFCOM, a quarter (25%) of UK internet users aged between eight and twelve years old have profiles on social networking sites Bebo, Facebook or MySpace.
This is despite the fact that the lowest minimum age requirement on any of the sites is 13.
17% of the parents of the children who had social networking profiles were aware of the fact, whilst 83% did not know what their children were doing on the internet.
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The findings were revealed in Ofcom's annual Children's Media Literacy Audit for 2009.
In addition, 37% of internet users between five and seven years old had visited Facebook in October 2009, but the research did not reveal how many (if any) of those users maintained a profile.
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