More kids are social networking at younger and younger ages, and parents, or at least some parents, are using this to their advantage. By leveraging the social networking media used by their children, curious moms and dads all over the world now find themselves with a convenient way to keep tabs on their kids, especially as social networks like Facebook get more locally oriented by using location data for certain things like Check-Ins, Photo geo-tagging, and other location based services.
Most parents, according to data collected in the infographic below, conduct their social network spying by subscribing to or checking their children’s Facebook status or reading Twitter updates. This doesn’t only apply to children of a childerly age, but also to adult children, who parents either spy on with invitation or permission, or clandestinely. One friend of mine who is herself a 42 year old mom has given her own mom instructions for monitoring her location using Apple’s Find My iPhone feature; she gave her mom her login so that if she ever turned up missing or lost her phone, her mom could use tracking features to help out.
So, have you ever done things like this? Would you? Check out the stats and you be the judge. Check out some satellite tv deals on dish2u for more great parenting help and commentary.
