This is a very scary reality for those of us with kids who are at the age, or approaching the age, where they are becoming aware of the Facebook – like websites of the world. My kids are not showing much interest at this stage (ages 10 and 8), but they do know what FB is.  Do I have much longer before they want accounts? And given that I will say NO, is this going to another battle in the making? (another big one fought, and so far it’s parents -1, kids-0, is the videogames). Some statistics…From CNN on Nov 3:

“In two surveys reported this year by Pew Internet Research — of 700 and 935 teens, respectively — 38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile of some sort.

Sixty-one percent of those in the study, ages 12 to 17, said they use social-networking sites to send messages to friends, and 42 percent said they do so every day.

The data in the study was from 2006, so it’s not a stretch to assume those numbers are higher this year. Research on younger children is limited, but anecdotal evidence shows that many of them are also logging on.”