Internet Safety Keeping Kids Safe Internet Usage According

Internet Safety Keeping Kids Safe

Internet Usage ¨ According to the Internet World Stats figures, the number of people on the Internet today is 1, 262, 032, 697

Pornography ¨ There are 4. 2 million pornographic websites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily pornographic search engine requests a day. ¨ The largest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17 at home on their parents computer. ¨ How do they know this?

What are teens doing? ¨ A large majority of teens (71 percent) have established online profiles ¨ 65 percent of high school students admit to unsafe, inappropriate, or illegal activities online ¨ 38 percent of high school students sometimes hide their online activities from their parents ¨ 31 percent of 7 th to 12 th-graders pretended to be older to get onto a website

On-Line Predators ¨ 16 percent of teens considered meeting someone they've only talked to online and 8 percent have actually met someone they only knew online

This is who you could meet.

Teens Ideas on Being Safe ¨ A majority of teens (58 percent) don't think posting photos or other personal info on social networking sites is unsafe ¨ About half (49 percent) are unconcerned posting personal info online might negatively affect their future ¨ Teens readily post personal info online. 64 percent post photos or videos of themselves, while more than half (58 percent) post info about where they live. Females are far more likely than male teens to post personal photos or videos of themselves (70 percent vs. 58 percent). ¨ Nearly one in 10 teens (8 percent ) has posted his or her cell phone number online.

More Ideas ¨ 69 percent 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 ¨ Half of teens ages 13 -18 often communicate through the Internet with someone they have not met in person ¨ Almost one in eight youth ages 8 -18 discovered that someone they were communicating with online was an adult pretending to be much younger

Parents may not understand ¨ Help you parents by monitoring yourself. ¨ Tell someone if you are being contacted by someone you don’t know. ¨ Stay offline if your parents are not home. ¨ Keep your friends safe. ¨ Keep younger kids safe.

Are you at Risk? ¨ Do you have pictures of yourself on the Internet? ¨ Do you have personal information on any websites, such as phone number or address? ¨ Do you chat with people you don’t know? ¨ Do you get emails from people you don’t know?

Are you a Cyber Bully? ¨ Have you ever. . . ¨ ___Signed on with someone else’s screen name to gather info? ¨ ___Sent an e-mail or online greeting card from someone’s account? ¨ ___Impersonated someone over IM or online? ¨ ___Teased or frightened someone over IM? ¨ ___Not told someone who you really are online, telling them to “guess”? ¨ ___Forwarded a private IM conversation or e-mail without the permission of the other person? ¨ ___Changed your profile or away message designed to embarrass or frighten someone? ¨ ___Posted pictures or information about someone on a Web site without their consent?

¨___Created an Internet poll, either over IM or on a Web site, about someone without their consent? ¨___Used information found online to follow, tease, embarrass or harass someone in person? ¨___Sent rude or scary things to someone, even if you were just joking? ¨___Used bad language online? ¨___Signed someone else up for something online without their permission? ¨___Used an IM or e-mail address that looked like someone else’s? ¨___Used someone else’s password for any reason without their permission? ¨___Hacked into someone else’s computer or sent a virus or Trojan horse to them? ¨___Insulted someone in an interactive game room? ¨___Posted rude things or lies about someone online? ¨___Voted at an online bashing poll or posted to a guestbook saying rude or mean things?

Be Safe on the Internet ¨ Talk to your parents ¨ Stay out of adult chat rooms ¨ Keep personal information off the Internet ¨ Tell someone if you are being bullied. ¨ http: //www. athinline. org/ ¨ http: //www. adcouncil. org/default. aspx? id=56