Internet Use Among Children
~By the end of 1998, more than 40% of all American homes had computers, and 25% had Internet access.
~By the year 2002, an estimated 45 million children and teenagers
were online. By 2007, that number grew to an estimated 77 million.
As of the year 2000...
~Only 1/3 of the households with Internet access were proactively protecting their children and filtering or blocking software.
~75% of children were willing to share personal information online
about themselves and their family in exchange for goods and services.
~1 in 5 U.S teenagers who regularly logged onto the Internet said
they had received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web.
Solicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual activities
or sexual talk, or to give personal sexual information.
~1 in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year. This means a predator
asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a young person on the
phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money, or gifts
through the U.S. Postal Service.
~77% of the targets for online predators were age 14 or older. Another 22% were users age 10 - 13.