Richard McManus, Read/Write blog, offers some recent statistics on the popularity of social networking sites. For example, 17% of the 2.6 million Facebook users are < 18 years old. Let me get my calculator – 442,000 kids are on Facebook alone. MySpace has a substantial lead in attracting the younger set. More than 2 million individuals under 18 have MySpace accounts.
They may not be able to access from their schools, but they are connecting from somewhere.