Moms Hack Facebook: Facebook Parents Monitor 72%, 10 Percent Parents’ Secret

Facebook Moms are not a new phenomenom, but definitely a growing one. According to a study by TRUSTe, a privacy services provider, 72% of all parents admitted that they “monitor” their children’s facebook pages. A smaller number have taken it to a bigger more shocking secret: 10 percent admit logging into their children’s facebook accounts in secret. While some are hailing it as “Moms Hack Facebook” in the media, the method of logging in is often not true “hacking” or even using any sort of “hacking” software (like a keylogger): many parents either know the password, find it laying around, guess it, or the browser the child uses has automatically saved the password.

“The Kids are Alright” report said that 84 percent of parents however trust their children are responsible with their personal information. 82 percent of parents believe they should be able to delete information from their teens’ accounts without the child who created the account’s permission, if they contact Facebook or any social media website.

Next up, may be Grandmothers: Facebook’s Fastest Growing Demographic is Women Over 55. So every son and daughter may have a grandmother or mother peering over their “facebook” shoulder every time they post. With that in mind, less and less personal information would be shared on the popular service. Or perhaps the teens will migrate to a different service, until that one too, is infiltrated by mom and grandma.