Mexico.- A study by security company Kaspersky and consultans CORPA revealed that 48% of Mexican children have a profile on WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook and 10% of parents do not know what they post.
Of the total number of infants with social networks 39% created their accounts directly and accessed them without the supervision of their parents. While the other 9% of the profiles were created by their parents and they are the ones who manage them.
“According to adults surveyed in the country, what minors share most publicly in their profiles is information about their hobbies or favorite activities (74%), household photographs (7%) and personal data of friends and relatives (8%),” the study says.
The familiarity with which they interact in the digital world is because, according to the study, 40% of Mexican children “interacted for the first time with a smart device before the age of 6, and 71% got their first personal smartphone or tablet before the age of 10”, almost half of them only use mobile technology to entertain themselves and in the least case to communicate with other people.
A survey by the companies found that 15% of children spend more than four hours connected to the internet via a mobile device, and those who lead the way in this regard are the minors argentine, with 24%, followed by Chileans (21%) Brazilians (18%). Further back are Colombians (12%), Peruvians (7%) Mexicans (7%).
