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How safe are kids (and parents) when it comes to their privacy on social networks? Very, in their own opinion. Truste (a privacy certification and compliance company that includes Facebook as a client) recently commissioned a survey of parents and teens on social networking privacy. They came up with some interesting sound bites:

• 80 of parents and 78 of teens feel that they are in control of private information on social networking sites
• 84 of parents believe their teen is responsible with their personal info online
• 95 of parents and 86 of teens on social networking sites use Facebook
• 86 of parents are friends with their children and 84 have a good idea of how much time teens spend on social networks
• 80 of parents think their kids have a picture posted; 82 of teen users have a picture posted
• 55 of parents and 60 of teens at least sometimes use privacy controls
• 89 of parents believe social networking sites should have default settings for users 13-17
• 68 of teens have accepted friend requests from people they don’t know
• 8 of teens accept all friend requests

View the full survey in PDF format at http://safekids.com/documents/truste_survey.pdf.