Children are leading secret lives on social media by creating fake accounts, a new study has found.
And youngsters are also defying age restrictions to use social platforms, regulator Ofcom found during its research into how people in the UK use and understand media. The survey found that children as young as three were using social media, in what Ofcom calls a "rise of the TikTots".
Their report said: "Many children could be using private social media accounts – like Finstas, fake Instagram accounts that their parents don’t know about - to hide aspects of their online lives. Two-thirds of eight to 11-year-olds had multiple accounts or profiles, and almost half of these have an account just for their family to see.
