75 percent of parents are on Facebook

31 percent of social media-using parents have posted parenting questions on their online networks, with moms and dads equally likely to do so.

Despite the stereotype, parents aren’t befuddled by their kids’ social media habits.

New York, July 17 (IANS) More and more parents are joining Facebook to give and seek emotional, social and parental advice to close friends, a new study has revealed.

A new Pew study on how parents – defined as those with children under 18 – use social media has found that three-quarters of parents are on Facebook.

Just under half reported turning to social media to carry them when they’re feeling down about parenthood – 50 percent of moms received emotional and social support in this arena, compared with 28 percent of dads.

On Facebook, the typical parent had 150 Facebook friends, one-third of whom were “actual” friends, the survey found. However, parents worry more about the actions of their offspring: 33 percent of all parents have expressed concern over their child’s technology use in the past year. However, 59 percent of parents said they recently found useful tips about raising their children while browsing social networking sites. This is more frequent than non-parents, with only 67 percent checking Facebook daily and 42 percent checking multiple times a day.

Everyone has their favorite social media platform, and according to new research, the platform of choice for parents is Facebook. While parents tend to have fewer people in their Facebook network, more of them were real-world friends than those of non-parents on the site.

While remember this is a proven fact that is actually teenagers require social websites urgently, and they see what could happen located on the portals from being tremendously legitimate, mom and dad do this too, though in very different strategy. Only 11% have requested a friend or family member remove content about their child from social media. While parents on LinkedIn are more active than non-parents, they are not as active on Instagram.

That aligns with trends on how prevalent social media use is between women and men, Duggan said. There’s also considerable overlap among users of both sites, which means that 8 percent of USA adults now use both Facebook and Twitter to get news. A huge 75 per cent parents log on daily, with 51 per cent using social media several times a day.

Twitter users are also more likely to follow specific news organizations on the site, while Facebook users are more likely to post and respond to content about government and politics. In the case of parents, social networks seem to be more social as well.