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This is interesting… pewinternet: What we’re reading: A new report on awareness, attitudes, and use of online parental controls from the Family Online Safety Institute Among the main findings: Parents generally feel their children are safe online, but confidence declines the older the child and the more time he or she spends online. When it comes to various online activities, parents express the most concern about their children viewing sexually explicit content online—70% say they are very/somewhat concerned. Other top concerns include communicating with a stranger online (61%) and visiting Web sites with inappropriate content (61%). Fully 96% of parents surveyed say they have had a conversation with their child about what to do and not to do online. Top concerns about children’s online safety relate to personal safety online, and significant concern also is expressed about spam and their child spending too much time online. 53% of parents say they have used parental control technologies to assist them in monitoring their child’s Internet usage. Read more at FOSI.org The research consisted of a nationwide telephone survey among 702 parents of children ages eight to 17 who access the Internet, and was conducted by Hart Research Associates. Interviewing was conducted from July 8 to 16, 2011, with a margin of error of ±3.7 percentage points. (Click here for a full version of the above infographic - PDF) Via Pew Internet Zoom

This is interesting…

pewinternet:

What we’re reading: A new report on awareness, attitudes, and use of online parental controls from the Family Online Safety Institute

Among the main findings:

  • Parents generally feel their children are safe online, but confidence declines the older the child and the more time he or she spends online.
  • When it comes to various online activities, parents express the most concern about their children viewing sexually explicit content online—70% say they are very/somewhat concerned. Other top concerns include communicating with a stranger online (61%) and visiting Web sites with inappropriate content (61%).
  • Fully 96% of parents surveyed say they have had a conversation with their child about what to do and not to do online.
  • Top concerns about children’s online safety relate to personal safety online, and significant concern also is expressed about spam and their child spending too much time online.
  • 53% of parents say they have used parental control technologies to assist them in monitoring their child’s Internet usage.

Read more at FOSI.org

The research consisted of a nationwide telephone survey among 702 parents of children ages eight to 17 who access the Internet, and was conducted by Hart Research Associates. Interviewing was conducted from July 8 to 16, 2011, with a margin of error of ±3.7 percentage points.

(Click here for a full version of the above infographic - PDF)


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