Metade dos jovens britânicos têm perfil social

«(...) Most sites, such as Bebo, MySpace and Facebook, set a minimum age of between 13 and 14 to create a profile but none actively enforce the age limit. Ofcom's survey of 5,000 adults and 3,000 children found 49% of those aged between eight and 17 have a profile. (...) "Social networks are clearly a very important part of people's lives and are having an impact on how people live their lives," said James Thickett, director of market research at Ofcom. He added: "Children's lives are very different from what they were 20 years ago. Social networks are a way of creating a social bond." (...) The three leading social networks, MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, all say they remove profiles of users that are found to be too young on their sites.»

fonte: Children flock to social networks, 2/'4/08, By Darren Waters BBC News website

O estudo da OFCOM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_04_08_ofcom.pdf