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Benefits

Who are they with?

What do they do?

Who are they with?

Young people see digital devices as totally normal and why shouldn’t they? They’ve never known a world in which they didn’t exist.

When they are using new technologies they may be:

Alone (at school or at home)
In a physical group in a room (such as a computer suite at school)
In a virtual group (where the other people are on computers in other places – perhaps across the globe)
In a virtual world (where the other people take the form of avatars. The task might be a real task or a game)

The ‘Eurobarometer Report’ showed that in the UK :

• 32% of parents were worried about the possibility of on-line grooming

• 41% were not worried at all

• Only 24% of parent in the UK knew that their children had seen something violent or sexual on the internet

• 76% had no idea.

(Eurobarometer is a series of surveys regularly performed on behalf of the European Commission since 1973. Find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobarometer)

We can’t ignore the fact that parents often don’t know what their children are up to on the internet.

See: http://tinyurl.com/3af998 (this is the European Internet Safety Portal)