One in four parents feel they cannot control what child online, although half are concerned that their children may be experiencingcyberbullying.
Being digital immigrants themselves, at a time when children today are natives of the digital world, only 39% of parents monitor online activity, a meager 19% say they are friends with them or follow them on social media, and 38% have talked to them about the dangers that connectivity can pose.
These, when already in the developed world and from the age of three years one in three toddlers is considered to have an internet existence. Indeed, most children now acquire an online identity (ip) long before they obtain any identity document (id).
The relevant findings were made during the presentation of the research results on the topic of cyberbullying, by B2B International on behalf of Kaspersky Lab. The results showed that children are often reluctant to admit that they have become victims of some form of online bullying: One quarter of the parents, whose children had been harassed in some way online, said that it took a long period of time before they discovered what was happening. This finding is particularly concerning, as the phenomenon of bullying spreading from the digital universe to the physical world and culminating in incidents of physical violence is common.
It is also concerning that fewer than half of parents (44%) intervened to prevent harassment or online bullying when they realized what was happening, with most doing nothing, possibly feeling powerless, as they struggle to understand the digital reality.
From then on, various instant messaging and communication services (chat) are the most common channel through which children come into contact with inappropriate content (67.2% of recorded cases, with a significant annual increase) and follow pornographic sites (59,5%) and those of gambling (26,6%).
Another impressive finding discussed during the announcement of the research results at the Mobile World Congress is what bothers children the most in their relationship with technology: It happens when parents ask them to put down the connected mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), usually when they sit at the table for a meal.
Source: protothema.gr
