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Important stats that you need to know when your child goes online!
Amazing Online Safety and Behavior Stats!
- 55% of kids are online when parents think they’re sleeping!
- Almost half of young people (48 per cent) living at home say their parents only know some of what they do online.
- 76 percent of parents allow their child to bring an internet-connected device to bed.
- 80 percent of parents are concerned about their child interacting with a predator or criminal online.
- Only 23 percent of parents admit to using software to monitor their children’s activity on their devices (most parents physically monitor or take phones to manage and limit use).
- 34 percent of parents have caught their kids visiting inappropriate sites using their device.
- Kids 5-15 spend around 15 hours per week online, overtaking time spent watching TV.
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42% of Internet users ages 10 to 17 said they viewed porn online in the past 12 months.
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44 percent of youth say they have personally experienced sexual threats online
- A third of teen girls have met people offline after becoming online friends!
- Did you know their are 40,000 chatrooms that put kids at risk for engaging with a predator?
- According to the UN and FBI, there are 750,000 predators online at any given moment.
- 60 percent of teens have been asked to text a nude photo and 28 percent say they have done it.
- One in seven teens are sexting according to recent study of 110,000 teens.
- Teens who sext are seven times more likely to be sexually active.
- Identity Theft: 23% of recipients of phishing emails/texts open them and 11% click on attachments.
- Half of all babies use a computer or smartphone before age 2
- 28% of 6-8 year olds have Facebook profiles
- 91% of employers are doing social networking (Facebook) screens of job applicants and 70% of recruiters have rejected applicants base on the information they found.
- 56% of kids are bullied online.
- In 3rd grade, 72% of victims said the cyberbully was anonymous.
- The most common upsetting experience online was trolling (37%), followed by being excluded from certain social groups (22%), aggressive or violent language (18%), feeling pressure to look or act a certain way (14%), cyber-stalking (12%), unwanted sexual messages (12%), racism (10%), being asked to send personal information or had it used without permission (8%), and being asked to send or response to a sexual message (8%). **Trolling- Deliberately making an offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone.
- Only 22% of kids ages 11-16 spoke face to face with someone about their negative online experience.
- Prevention programs have been shown to decrease bullying by 20 to 23 percent.
- Nearly 1 in 6 high school students has seriously considered suicide, and 1 in 12 has attempted it.
- 43% of kids have messaged strangers, starting from an average of age 12 years old
- 92% of children in the U.S. have an online presence by the time they are two.
- FBI stats show that more than 50 percent of victims of online sexual exploitation are 12-15 years old
- 30% of teens sext by sending or posting nude/semi nude pictures or sexually explicit messages. They are mostly 15 and 16 years old
- The Internet has become a “virtual clubhouse” for children and teens – adults not allowed. Do you know the Secret Code of the Internet, such as GNOC, or (L)MIRL?
- The average age of the 1st internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old.
- Texting is now the primary mode of communication between teens and their friends and family, far surpassing phone calls, emails and even face-to-face interactions.
- A quarter of teens respond to at least one text message when they drive.
- Distracted driving found to be responsible in 58% of teen collisions in AAA study.
- 58 percent of teens say their parents have the biggest influence on what they think is appropriate and inappropriate when using a smartphone or going online
- Household rules about children’s online activities has declined dramatically from 2005 to 2013
- 20% of the young students say they’re never supervised by an adult.
- 75% of legitimate websites have major security vulnerabilities that hackers can easily exploit.
