Dangers That Lurk

What kids today may be facing online

By Amyline Quien Ching

(Pornado is an internet lingo used by kids to refer to sites with porn material.)

There are more than 1 billion pornographic sites that kids can readily access. Around 70% of 8-18 year-olds have come across pornography online (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2006)

 Most encounter porn material by accident, through typing seemingly innocent keywords in search engines when doing homework (London School of Economics, 2002).

GNOC
(Get Naked On Camera)

14% of 7th-9th grade students communicated with someone online about sexual things; 11% had been asked to talk about sexual things; 8% have been exposed to nude pictures and 7% were also asked for nude pictures of themselves online. (Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008)

69% of teens, 13 to 17 years old, regularly receive personal messages online from people they don't know and most of them don't tell a trusted adult about it. (National Teen Internet Survey 2007)
1 in 8 children discovered that someone they were communicating with online was an adult pretending to be much younger. (Polly Klaas Foundation, 2006)

30% of teenage girls had been sexually harassed in a chat room. Only 7% told their parents because they were worried that they would be ban from going online. (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).

86% could chat online and 54% could conduct a cyber relationship without their parents' knowledge. (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).

32% of online teens experience some form of 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or cyberbullying (New York hurtful things to them Times, 2010) online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once. But 53% of kids admit to saying mean or hurtful things to another person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once.