The study was designed to identify “sets of practices and media and digital consumption, understanding attitudes to the new media alongside situations of risk and vulnerabilities in the digital world.”
Around 45% of the participating youths said that they had friends who had been the victims of cyberbullying even though only 14.3% said that they had themselves been the target of this type of violence.
The project coordinator Paula Lopes termed these percentages high whilst “more surprising” was “the same percentage said they knew of the theft of profiles on social networks” with 11% self-reporting themselves as victims of such theft.
There were also significant proportions who had been targeted by practices interrelated with grooming with the reporting finding 26.4% had been invited to chat privately, 25.7% unwillingly exposed to erotic or pornographic content whilst 25.5% had met with someone they otherwise only knew from online interactions.
“However much Internet programs say people should pay attention with what users share, the majority share photographs, their true names and their true ages and many still remain minors,” Lopes said.
The study’s findings indicate that 81% of young people put up personal photos on social networks, 77.4% give their real name and surname, 53.3% their age and 51.6% the name of the school they attend.
Finally, when these students were asked just who should teach them about online patterns of behaviour, 54.1% identified the family, 55.3% their teachers, 53.5% the media with Internet service suppliers also selected by 52.3%.
That's very sad but not surprising. The parents are the responsibility for children. That's why I am blaming on parents. DISAPPOINTMENT!
By anjospot from Açores on 14 Jan 2015, 14:38