THE NSPCC is urging parents to be more aware of what their children are doing online.

The charity's Share Aware campaign aims to get parents talking about socialising safely online after a panel of more than 500 parents from Mumsnet reviewed 48 websites and said all those aimed at adults and teenagers were too easy for children under 13 to sign-up to.

At least three quarters of parents surveyed by the NSPCC found sexual, violent, or other inappropriate content within half an hour of logging into certain sites, such as Omegle, Sickipedia and Deviant Art.

Those aimed at younger children, like Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters, Popjam and Bearville, fared better and parents did not find any unsuitable content on them.

The NSPCC has used the reviews to create a new online guide to help inform parents about the risks of different social networking sites used by children.

Sarah Allum, NSPCC service manager in the South West, said: “Children are taught from an early age that it is good to share but doing so online can be very dangerous. This Christmas many children will have been given a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a games console. So it’s the perfect opportunity for parents to have that important conversation with their children about who they are talking to and what they share when they socialise online."