Almost 40% Of European Pre-Teens Are On Facebook
According to a new survey by the European Commission, 38 percent of European kids ages 9 through 12 are part of the social network, and almost 80 percent of teens are too.
Almost two out of every five nine through 12-year-olds in Europe have profiles on Facebook — just like their peers in the U.S. — and the figure rises up to almost 80 percent for teenagers aged 13 through 16.
These findings come from a European Union Commission survey of 25,000 youth on the continent, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.
And the figures are worrisome not so much because the kids are present on the social network at all — although Facebook’s own rules require users be at least 13 years of age — but because a lot of them don’t know how to manage their privacy settings and are thus vulnerable to predators.
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