73% Sg children encounter negative online encounters

• Clivebenss

  6 Jul 10, 16:45

  Jul 6, 2010 - Straits Times

  By Melissa Sim

  A SURVEY has revealed that 73 per cent of Singapore children encountered negative experience online.

  This resulted in them feeling angry, annoyed, fearful, disgusted and shocked, among other things.

  The Norton Online Family Report 2010, which involved 101 children aged 10 to 17 and 102 parents of children aged 10 to 17, was conducted in April this year.

  The survey also showed that stranger danger is a real threat to children online.

  About 26 per cent of the children surveyed said they have someone they didn't know try to meet them in the real world.

  And only 11 per cent of parents were aware of this.

  This also illustrates the gap between what children do online, and parents' awareness of their online activities.

• Clivebenss

  6 Jul 10, 20:07

  how about adult?

  

• TTFU

  6 Jul 10, 21:05

  I think its online bullying. Well too bad...

• Dragonaxe

  6 Jul 10, 21:10

  I bet they took 100 ten-year old kid and 1 seventeen-year old kid

• Clivebenss

  7 Jul 10, 01:57

  Originally posted by Dragonaxe:

  I bet they took 100 ten-year old kid and 1 seventeen-year old kid