Nearly a third of children on Facebook are ready to "unfriend" their parents due to nagging chats and clueless comments on their online profiles, according to a report by online research firm Nielsen released on Tuesday.
Teens are twice as likely to "unfriend" their mothers than their fathers, said Regina Lewis, consumer advisor of AOL, the US internet company which partnered with Nielsen for the study.
One out of five parents said they have asked their child to "unfriend" someone because they were not comfortable with the connection. In one out of two instances, parents objected to inappropriate content on the person's Facebook page.
However, many parents said they agreed not to comment on their children's pages, the study added.
The survey conducted on 1,000 parents and 500 teens found that more than three-fourths of parents on the social networking site are connected to their children's profiles.
