Underage social networking fears A new study commissioned by online identity security experts Garlik concludes that over 750,000 underage children in the United Kingdom use social networking sites when they shouldn't. Many of them also take serious risks, posting personal information such as where they go to school and their mobile phone numbers.

The study, conducted in in June 2008, also points to 72% of parents "snooping" on their children's online habits. 25% of these admit to secretly logging in to their child's page and 26% have created their own profile to monitor their activity.

Tom Ilube, Garlik CEO, commented: "With three quarters of a million underage users in the UK, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo need to take their own age restriction policies far more seriously to help allay parents' real fears".

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