61% Of Parents Log Onto Kids' Facebook Accounts

Parents and their kids play a cat-and-mouse game on Facebook: The former tries to keep tab on the latter, which responds by running faster, prompting the former to do the same. Kids know that their parents are watching and think that ignoring their folks' friend requests takes care of the problem. Parents realize that they're being ignored and get desperate. Desperation leads to the kinds of behavior unearthed in a survey by security software maker AVG.

Parents and their kids play a cat-and-mouse game on Facebook: The former tries to keep tab on the latter, which responds by running faster, prompting the former to do the same.

Kids know that their parents are watching and think that ignoring their folks’ friend requests takes care of the problem. Parents realize that they’re being ignored and get desperate. Desperation leads to the kinds of behavior unearthed in a survey by security software maker AVG.

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