Facebook, no matter how hard it tries, is not getting away from the issues concerning privacy concerns. From leaking of users’ information on torrent sites to apps transferring users’ Facebook IDs to advertising companies and from hackers to impersonators, we find it all on Facebook. Interestingly, a survey has found out that, for teens, parents can amount to a large percentage of people hacking into their account.
According to MSNBC, a survey done by Internet privacy service TRUSTe found that ten percent of parents have found a way to log into their teens’ Facebook knowledge.
The survey was conducted on 2,000 parents and their teenagers on social networking behaviors that largely focused on Facebook.
Key findings of the survey includes:
- 80 percent of parents and 78 percent of teens feel in control of their personal information on social networking sites;
- 84 percent of parents are confident their teen is responsible with personal information on a social networking site;
- 72 percent of parents surveyed monitor their teens’ accounts, with 50 percent of these parents monitoring weekly, 35 percent daily and 10 percent monthly; and,
- 84 percent of parents are accurate in understanding the amount of time their teen spends on social networks and generally have a good understanding of the activities they are engaged in online
- 18 percent of teens have been embarrassed or disciplined as a result of a posting;
- 80 percent of teens use privacy settings at some point to hide content from certain friends and/or parents; and,
- 68 percent of teens surveyed have at some time accepted friend invites from people they don’t know, with 8 percent accepting all, 34 percent accepting some, and 26 percent accepting rarely.
Parents hacking into their teen’s accounts say “they do what they do because they are concerned about their kids’ safety and the kinds of information they may post while on the social networking site,” according to the report.
Most teens might find this shocking or uncool, but as Fran Maier, TRUSTe president says, “protecting the privacy of teens on social networks is not easy as they can be technically adept, have strong motivations to connect widely, and don’t yet have the maturity to look out for their long term interests.”
Facebook monitoring are about posts and comments or pictures, which teens might think is fun, that might end up in getting them suspended from school or attract online criminals. So teens, it’s not about freaking out, but seeing the importance of learning to share the responsibility of keeping yourself safe. And yeah! your parents are ethical hackers and not otherwise 
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