Parents' perspectives toward young children being famous in the social media

Background: In recent years, social media has become ubiquitous and important for social networking and content sharing. In this study, we demonstrate how social media can be used by children to be famous. This study aims to evaluate the use of social media by children to be famous; this study is designed to view parents' attitudes about using the social media by young children. Method: participants were 135 parents from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The participants were selected randomly. Results: The results from this study revealed that most of parents would like to see their children famous to be part of the group in the society only, and most of parents analyzed the reason why their children seeking fame because children were being bullied before. Conclusions/significance: This study is reviewing parents' perspectives with using social media by children to be famous in Saudi Arabia. The findings from this study reveal the parents' perspectives toward the fame of their children, and illustrating why some parents would like to see their children famous, the finding of this study stated that children seeking fame to satisfy their ego gratification. Implementation: As children grow parents should be close to children, trying to make them their friends, to understand their needs to be famous in an attempt to try to save them from running behind the specter of fame.