Parents ‘break Facebook rule’

PARENTS are helping their children break a strict Facebook rule banning youngsters under 13 setting up profiles, the government has warned.

UK minister for children Tim Loughton accused them of “aiding and abetting” pre-teens to open accounts on the social networking site, and said they had a responsibility to monitor youngsters.

The revelation came as Labour MP Ann Coffey urged the government and mobile phone companies to do more to combat “sexting”, where teen-agers send sexual pictures of themselves to each other using camera phones..