November 19, 2010 8:22 am
Information from the national Polly Klaas Foundation
The FBI says reports of predators communicating with young people
online have increased more than 6,000 percent since 1996.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
15 FACTS ABOUT INTERNET SAFETY
By Kate
Esposito
These 15 facts about Internet safety mostly concern
children using the Web. While adults can use past experience to judge whether
they are in a threatening or dangerous situation, children have less knowledge
of what is unsafe. Unfortunately, there are people online who look to use this
naiveté to their advantage. If you share these facts with your kids, or use
them as guidelines as to what they should and shouldn't do when using the
computer, you can help your child avoid becoming the victim of a predator or an
identity thief. These facts are accurate as of December 2008.
15 Facts
About Internet Safety
Facts from
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
1. About 15 percent of youth between the ages of 10 and
17 have had a person contact them over the Internet with a message that was
sexual in nature.
2. About 4 percent received a sexual solicitation that's
considered aggressive, i.e. the person sent them gifts or asked to meet
offline.
3. About 35 percent saw nudity or other sexual material
online, and only 27 percent told their parents or guardians.
Facts from Rochester Institute of Technology
4. According to Kidsafe, nearly 50 percent of
children in kindergarten or first grade report talking with people through
websites. Only half have parents watch their online activity.
5. While 48 percent of kids in kindergarten or Grade 1
report to have seen content on the Web they were not comfortable with, 28
percent did not tell an adult.
Facts from Harris Interactive
6. The Kidsafe website also states that about 32 percent
of kids in their teens hide their browsing history from their parents or
guardians to try to prevent them from seeing which sites they visit.
7. Many teens, about 16 percent, have email addresses and
social networking names that they don't want their parents or guardians to know
about.
8. About 11 percent of teens report knowing how to turn
off parental controls, which you can use to block certain types of Web content.
Facts from Cox Communications National Summit on Internet
Safety
9. This national summit agreed that most kids,
about 90 percent, have used the Internet since they were nine years old or
younger.
10. Almost 35 percent of tweens, ages 11 and 12, use
social networking sites. Many post personal information; some even share their
phone numbers and addresses.
11. About 27 percent of tweens put a fake age in their
profiles online.
12. About 28 percent have had a stranger contact them
through an online channel.
13. Of the tweens that have been contacted, 18 percent
don't tell their parents or guardians and 11 percent actually chat with the
person.
General Facts
14. Child predators often hang out on social
networking, gaming and chat sites to try to find their victims.
15. Many children are trusting of anyone they meet that
seems nice, even if they meet them online.
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