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Internet Startling Facts
How is
the Internet Affecting Your Family?
These Internet statistics have
been compiled from online sources including:
ZDNet Interactive AOL,
Cyber Security Industry Alliance, Computer Security Institute, Vault.com, NFO Worldwide, Gartner Group,
Focus on the Family, Websense,
Citizen Link and the
FBI. |
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How do kids use the Internet? |
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2.2 hours
a day is the average time kids 13-17 use the internet.
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65% of
kids who have internet access use the internet more than
they watch TV. |
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78% of
teens claim they go online alone, without someone else in
the room. |
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86% chat
in a chatroom. |
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81% have
private e-mail accounts that parents don't have access to or
don't know about. |
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67% use
Instant Messaging. ( only 21% are monitored by their parents ) |
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45% have
private web pages like "My Space" only 11% allow parental
access to those sites.
42% keep those sites a "secret" from their parents. |
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12% of
all internet use by children 8-17 are for homework or
research purposes. |
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72% play
internet games at least 5 times a week. |
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52% of
children 8-17 claim they have corresponded with strangers
online. |
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Internet Pornography Industry Statistics? |
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4.2
Million (12% of total websites) are Pornographic. |
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372
Million Pornographic Web Pages |
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68
Million daily pornographic search engine requests. ( 25% of
total search engine requests ) |
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2.5
Billion pornographic e-mails per day. ( 18% if total e-mails
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4.5
Average daily pornographic e-mails per Internet user. |
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1.5
Billion Monthly Pornographic downloads. ( 35% of all
downloads) |
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116
Thousand daily "child pornography" requests. |
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100
Thousand websites offering illegal child pornography. |
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72
Million annual worldwide visitors to pornographic websites. |
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Children
Internet Pornographic Statistics? |
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11 Years
old, average age of first Internet exposure to pornography. |
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12-17
Year olds, largest consumers of Internet pornography. |
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80% of
15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core pornographic
exposures. |
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90% of
8-16 year olds have stumbled across or viewed porn online. (
most while doing homework ) |
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29% of
7-17 year olds would freely give out home addresses. |
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14% of
7-17 year olds who would freely give out e-mail addresses. |
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20% of
youth who use the Internet have received sexual
solicitation/s. |
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89% of
sexual online solicitations of youth are made in chatrooms. |
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26
Children's character names linked to thousands of porn
links.( including Pokeman & Actionman ) |
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80% of
children using e-mail receive inappropriate messages. |
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47% of
children receive pornographic spam on a daily basis. 1 in 5
( 21% ) open and view these spam e-mails. |
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Only 3%
of pornographic websites require a credit card or other
"adult check" to proceed past the first page of the site,
where free content could be viewed. |
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47% of
pornographic exposures on the internet by children were
inadvertent. |
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17% of
pornographic exposures were from misspelled web addresses. |
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19% of
visitors to pornographic web sites were under 15 years old. |
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5% views
of "adult check" web sites, were children who had purposely
bypassed the check by lying or using false information. |
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In the
Tacoma Public Library, 16 was the median age of those trying
to access pornography even though their Library warns users
that they use filtering software. 13 is the age of
those with the largest number of intercepts. |
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Do Parents
set clear rules about internet use? |
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74% of
parents with teens but only 47% of teens claim to have rules
about what teens must get permission to do online. |
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74% of
parents but only 57% of teens claim to have specific rules
about what types of websites teens are allowed to view. |
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59% of
parents but only 31% of teens claim to have specific rules
about whether teens are allowed to visit chat rooms. |
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52% of
parents but only 36% of teens claim to have specific rules
about how much time teens are allowed to spend online. |
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51% of
parents but only 25% of teens claim to have specific rules
about who teens are allowed to e-mail. |
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Do Parents
trust their kids on the Internet? |
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16% of
parents and 12% of teens feel that teens can be trusted to
follow rules about internet use all the time. |
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71% of
Parents and 72% of teens feel that teens can be trusted some
of the time. |
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23% of
older teens and 11% of younger teens believe teens can be
rarely trusted on the internet. |
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52% of
parents but only 36% of teens claim to have specific rules
about how much time teens are allowed to spend online. |
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51% of
parents but only 25% of teens claim to have specific rules
about who teens are allowed to e-mail. |
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55% of
children ages 12-15 say they do not tell their parents
everything they do online. |
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44% of
teens claim the have broken parents rules on Internet use. |
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25% or
parents claim they have installed and maintain filtering
software but only 18 percent of teens believe this has
occurred. |
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54% of
parents believe that filtering software is as effective as
parents setting clear rules and checking up on their teens.
80% of teens think filtering software is more effective. |
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15% of
parents using filtering software, vigilantly monitor and
regularly update that software. |
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What do
Parents and Teens Claim about Filtering Software? |
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25% or
parents claim they have installed and maintain filtering
software but only 18 percent of teens believe this has
occurred. |
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54% of
parents believe that filtering software is as effective as
parents setting clear rules and checking up on their teens.
80% of teens think filtering software is more effective. |
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15% of
parents using filtering software, vigilantly monitor and
regularly update that software. |
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48% of
teens feel they have the ability to "get around filtering"
software if they wanted to. |
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37% of
teens claim they have "gotten around" filtering software at
home or at school. |
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63% of
teens feel they know more about the filtering software
installed on their computer than their parents do. |
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Adult
Internet Pornographic Statistics? |
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40
Million adults who regularly visit Internet Pornography
websites. |
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53% of
"Promise Keeper" men who viewed pornography in the last
week. |
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47% of
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in their
home. |
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10% of
Adults admit to having an Internet sexual addiction |
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72% male
- 28% female, breakdown of visitors to pornography web
sites. |
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70% or
women keep their cyber pornography activities secret. |
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Women are
Three times more likely to act out their behaviors in real
life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or
affairs |
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Women
favor chatrooms 2 to 1 more than men |
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1 of 3
visitors to adult web sites are women. |
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9.4
million women access adult web sites each month. |
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