Social networking sites (SNS) are popular among European children: 38% of 9-12 year olds and 77% of 13-16 year olds have a profile. Facebook is used by one third of 9-16 year old internet users. Age restrictions are only partially effective, although there are many differences by country and SNS. One in five 9-12 year olds have a Facebook profile, rising to over 4 in 10 in some countries. The report also shows that: * Younger children are more likely than older to have their profile ‘public’. A quarter of 9-12 year old SNS users have their profile ‘set to public’. * Parental rules for SNS use, when applied, are partly effective, especially for younger children. * A quarter of SNS users communicate online with people unconnected to their daily lives, including one fifth of 9-12 year old SNS users. * One fifth of children whose profile is public display their address and/or phone number, twice as many as for those with private profiles. * The features designed to protect children from other users if needed are not easily understood, by many younger and some older children.
Date
Publisher
Publication type
Total pages
13
Countries this relates to
Language of materials
Topics
You might like..
yes
0
31
Strengthening knowledge attained during summer school, guiding marks and new activities for Peer to Peer Education classes, concrete ways and solutions to combat violence and bullying in school, how can be students helped to identify and overcome…
0
3
The seminar takes place on 15-16 November in Bratislava, Slovakia, in cooperation with the Slovak Presidency of the EU.
The programme sees European experts, policymakers, local, national and regional governments, social…
0
18
About the webinar:
CPC Learning Network and LINEA are organizing the second joint webinar "Social network analysis as an innovative tool for identifying reference groups.
In this webinar, Dr. Holly Shakya, Assistant Professor of…
0
144
Research from 2010 showed that in one year alone, 13 per cent of UK children aged 9-16 experienced something on the internet as a whole which upset or worried them. This new research shows that over one in four children aged 11-16 with a profile on…
0
5
People knew and wrote a little about digital literacy until March when a microscopic creature came into life all over the world. The pandemic of Covid 19 caused a lot of changes in our everyday lives starting with the lockdown and going on with the…
0
4
Excerpts from the Foreword of Dr. Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England Several reports were produced and commented on how statutory authorities seek to assess the age of those who arrive undocumented from abroad and claim to be…
0
90
When do minimum ages protect or limit children’s rights? What is meant by capacity and free and informed consent? How can greater rights recognition rather than age thresholds better protect children from abuse? And why on earth is children’s access…
no
0
20
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has lodged with the European Commission and the bloc’s network of consumer protection authorities a complaint against the video-sharing site, while consumer organisations in 15 countries have alerted their…
0
28
The number of children using Internet is on the rise, with the Internet opening up new learning opportunities for them, but also creating new risks, making children more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The responsibility to protect children…
0
394
We present you the publication "Children in the Digital Age". The publication can be very useful for all professionals working in education, but also for all who are involved in working with children and participating in their education, including…
0
52
In the global effort to save children’s lives, we hear too little about adolescence. Given the magnitude of the threats to children under the age of five, it makes sense to focus investment there – and that attention has produced stunning success.…
0
45
For young people who have lived in alternative care, such as a large institution or foster care, becoming independent is a challenging and often daunting task. In many countries they face extreme hardship and are, for example, more likely to be…
0
27
Adoption: 26th June 1973 Entry into Force: 19th June 1976, in accordance with article 12 Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to minimum age for admission to employment, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the…
0
46
The technical note is a basic guidance to Country Offices on how to deal with age assessment issues and procedures. It aims to provide Country Offices with an overview and checklist of the essential standards that an age assessment procedure should…
0
15
Researchers claim that 1 in 5 children’s apps available on Google Play don’t support COPPA rules. COPPA (in 1998, Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online…
