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source: Clickmeeting AcademyHow do parents protect their children’s online safety? Clickmeeting, a platform for webinars and online events, investigated this question. A survey conducted as part of the Clickmeeting Academy revealed the following:
- the most common approach (71%) is educating children about cybercrime,
- followed by monitoring the child’s internet activity (49%),
- not posting photos of children online (41%),
- using parental control software (34%),
- prohibiting children from posting their own photos and videos online (31%),
- and installing antivirus software (29%).
- For children, the virtual world is a natural part of their reality where they grow up. It’s the role of parents to show them how to use the internet wisely and keep them safe in the online world, comments Martyna Grzegorczyk from ClickMeeting in a statement summarizing the study results.
What about privacy?
It turns out that 43% of respondents say they protect their child’s privacy every time, and 48% not always, but they try. Only 7% admitted they don’t care about their children’s online privacy at all, because they don’t know how, and 1% of respondents even said they don’t care about children’s privacy online because it doesn’t matter to them.
At the same time, 54% of respondents believe their children are aware of online dangers, 36% do not, and 11% are unsure. According to 91% of respondents, it’s the parents’ responsibility to educate children about cybersecurity, and 74% believe the school should also be responsible. Meanwhile, 14% pointed to peers, and 1% marked the option: I don’t know. This was a multiple-choice question.
The survey participants are parents of children aged 7 to 18, living in towns with populations of up to 5,000 (21%), 5,000 to 20,000 (14%), 20,000 to 100,000 (27%), 100,000 to 500,000 (21%), and over 500,000 residents (17%). Respondents’ ages were 18-34 years (19%), 35-54 years (76%), and over 55 years (5%). Among all participants, 65% were women and 35% men.
Cyber threats to children
For many years, there has been talk and writing about the dangers children may encounter online without supervision. The situation and parents` awareness are slowly improving. According to the Safer Internet Foundation report:
- 43% of children aged 11-15 received unwanted sexual content online.
- 25% of children aged 11-15 experienced cyberbullying.
- 12% of children aged 11-15 encountered pornography online.
- 8% of children aged 11-15 were encouraged to meet a stranger in real life.
In Poland, more and more children are using the internet. According to research conducted by the Nobody’s Children Foundation, in 2020, 95% of children aged 10-17 used the internet, with 85% being online daily.
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