If you were to guess how many children were involved in networking, your first reaction might be “few.” Well, if we expand our idea of networking (beyond suits and career fairs and business cards) to mean social networking, than your first reaction would be very wrong.

A BBC News story by Darren Waters cites a recent survey showing that almost half of children online use social networking sites. And, of course, that’s not all. A surprising number of youth (59%) use these sites to make new friends. While they are making all these friends, 43 percent say their parents set no rules for use of social networks.

As hard as it may be to understand the latest jargon, we might want to start paying attention to who might be the new “bff.”

Read the full article here.