Internet Safety Statistics

Here are some internet safety stats that drives us to create a safe internet for kids!  And we need your help!

• 20% of youth include swear words in their MySpace profiles and 33% of MySpace pages have swear words in the comments sections.
•  18% of youth MySpace pages contain evidence of consumption of alcohol by minors
• 64% of teens post photos or videos of themselves online, while more than half (58%) post info about where they live. 
• 32% of all teens and 43% of teens active in social networking have been contacted online by a complete stranger. 69% of teens regularly receive personal messages online from people they don't know and most of them don't tell a trusted adult about it
• 23% of children have had an encounter with a stranger on the Internet, including 7% of children who reported having met someone in the real world from the Internet
• 79% of sexual solicitation incidents happened to youth while they were using their home computer
• 40% of solicitations began with a solicitor communicating with a youth through an instant message or IM
• 56% of solicitations contained a request for the youth to send photographs of themselves to the solicitor and 27% of solicitations contained a request for the youth to send a sexual picture of themselves

·         34% of youth have encountered unwanted sexual material while online

• Common cyber-bullying behaviors include name-calling, spreading of gossip or sensitive information, threats, teasing, sexual harassment, being ignored or disrespected, and being deceived by a bully who is misrepresenting themselves
• 43% of youth report that they have experienced some form of cyber-bullying in the last year. The incidence of cyber-bullying is most prevalent among 15- and 16-year-olds, particularly among girls

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