eu kids online results on sns (elisabeth staksrud)

Safer Internet Forum, Luxembourg, October 21st, 2010

Elisabeth Staksrud, Dept. of Media and Communications, University of Oslo, Norway

Children who have a profile on a social

networking site (figure 22)

57 58 56

48

72

81

5558 60

24

All

children

Girls Boys 9-10

years

11-12

years

13-14

years

15-16

years

Low SES Medium

SES

High SES

Gender Age SES

Base: All children who use the InternetEukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Children who have a profile on a social

networking site by country (figure 23)

7876 75 74

72 71 71

66 66 6563 63 62

58 5755 54 54 53

51 5047 4750

60

70

80

90

Weighted average = 57%

47 47

0

10

20

30

40

50

NL SI LT DK CZ EE PL FI HU UK BE SE AT PT IE IT ES EL FR BG DE TR RO


Children who visited a social networking profile

in the past month (table 5)

38 40

79 77

60

38 40

Boys Girls Boys Girls All

9-12 year old 13-16 year old

EukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Children’s use of privacy settings on their

social networking profile

40

45

36

4345

39 38

42

37

45

28 28 28

24

31 30

24

29 2829

24

3330

27 2830 31 31

23

Private profile Partially Private profile Public profile Don't know

17

24 2424 23

3 3 4

10

4 3 24 3 4

All

children

Girls Boys 9-10

years

11-12

years

13-14

years

15-16

years

Low SES Medium

SES

High SES

Total Gender Age SES


Public SNS profiles by country

53

45 44

37 3734 33 32 31 30 30 29

32 31 30 30 29 28 2825

2220 19 19 18

13 13 11

HU TR RO PL EL IT CZ DE SE LT BG FI EE BE PT SI FR DK AT NL UK ES IE

Base: All children who have a profile on a social networking siteEukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Children who say they know how to change privacy

settings on a Social Networking Profile (Table 4)

3235

64 64

54

32

Boys Girls Boys Girls All

11-12 year olds 13-16 year olds

Base: All children aged 11-16 who use the InternetEukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Children’s knowledge of privacy settings

vs. status of own profile

22

30

Know how to change privacy settings

Do not know how to change privacy settings

1922

97

11

Public profile Partially private profile Private profile


Children who give incorrect age

on their SNS profile by country (table 6)

30

27 2625

24

2221

20 19 19 1919 19 19

17 17

1413 13 13

109

8

6

3 2

ES UK IE IT PT DK TR EL BE EE SE FR SI FI AT RO CZ BG LT DE NL PL HU

Base: All children who have a profile on a social networking siteEukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Number of contacts on children’s social

networking profiles, by country (figure 24)

31 2927 29

2321 21

52

30 28 31 34

23 2024 24

30

11

22 2218 16 17 21

16 13 11 10 9

19

70

80

90

100

More than 300 101 to 300 51 to 100 From 11 to 50 Fewer than ten

3 2 3 51

158 6 8 7 6 5

126 10 11

1912 9

148

16 1394 4

1312

10

13

1615

19 1725

15

1722

25 22

2027

25

26 3327 32

20

6 7

18 1724

13 17 2217 20

1427

20 1917 19

15 15 2318

2427 25

21

22

35

38 38 35 25

3637 33 33

26

43

30 3031 31 29 25

27 29

3165

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

RO BG FI EE DE PT CZ LT ES AT DK TR SI IE SE FR EL NL PL IT BE UK HU All


Nature of children’s online contacts, by type of

communication (age 11+) (Figure 28)

60 6359

7782 83

% First met in person face-to-face

% Met on the internet, friends/family of people you know

% Met on the internet, no other connection

60 6359

3125 24

3327

2328 27 26

128 8

Chatroom Playing Games Virtual World Social

networking

Instant

Messaging

Email

Base: All children aged 11-16 who communicate on the Internet in each of the ways shown EukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

“ My schoolmate broke into my profile on social networking

site, wrote some vulgar things there, changed my

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND POTENTIAL

RISKS

site, wrote some vulgar things there, changed my

password. My parents solved the situation.”

(Boy, 14, Czech Republic)


The way in which child first contacted

someone they have met offline (table 34)

7

13

8

9-10 years 11-12 years 13-14 years 15-16 years All children

Only children who have met someone offline that they first communicated

with online in the past 12 months. Base: All children who use the Internet.

1 10 0 1 0

32

10 1 1

7

5

1 1 11

4

32 2

6

4

21 1 1

On a social

networking site

By instant

messaging

In a chat room Some other

way on the

internet

In a gaming

website

By email


Receiving sexual messages on SNS

(age 11+), (table 28)

14

2111-12 13-14 15-16

2 21 1 1 1 1

7

5

34 4

2 2 2

76

5 54

32

By 'pop up' By instant

messaging

On a social

networking

site

Some other

way on the

internet

By email In a

chatroom

In a gaming

website

Has seen or

received at

all

Base: All children 11 – 16 who use the InternetEukidsII/Staksrud/21.10.2010

Ways in which children have been bullied

online in the past 12 months by age (table 20)

6

4

6

4

7

5

9-10 years 11-12 years 13-14 years 15-16 years All

1

2

1 1

0 0

33

2

1 1

0

1

4

3

1 1

0 0

3

4

1

0

1

0

3 3

1 1 1

0

On a social

networking

site

By instant

messaging

By email In a gaming

website

In a

chatroom

Some other

way on the

internet

At all on the

internet


What they did after being bullied

and did it help? (table 26)

21

45

41

28

35

Did this Did this and it helped

Base: Children who use the Internet and have

been sent nasty or hurtful messages online

21

18

12

8

18

13 13

8

14

19

I stopped using the

internet for a while

I deleted any

messages from the

person who sent it

to me

I changed my filter/

contact settings

I blocked the

person who had

sent it to me

I reported the

problem (e.g.

clicked on a 'report

abuse' button,

contact an internet

advisor or 'internet

service provider

(ISP)')

None of these Don't know


Summary of initial results

58% of all European children have a profile on a social networking site. Usage increases

significantly by age

While 2/3 of the children have their profile set to private or partially private, only half of

the children using the Internet (54%) know how to change privacy settings on a social

networking profile, dropping to 1/3 with the 11-12 year olds

One in two have up to 50 contacts and 19% have fewer than 10. One in five (20%) has

between 100 and 300 contacts, while 9% have more than 300 contactsbetween 100 and 300 contacts, while 9% have more than 300 contacts

Most contacts are offline friends, or friends of friends. 12% met on the Internet

A Social Networking site is the most common place to meet someone online that a child

later meets offline (compared to other Internet services)

A Social Networking site is the most common place to experience bullying (however, the

numbers here are low overall)

Very few report such occurrences to the ISP/SNS provider (12%)


Spesific SNSs researched

Arto

Bebo

Daily Motion

Facebook

Microsoft SNS

Myspace

Nasza-Klasa

Netlog

Turenti

Yonce

Hi5

Lide.cz

Libimseti.cz

Skum

My Space

Orkut V

Frype

hotnot.lt

Ieskok.lt

Klase.lt

lt.mylivepage.com

odnoklassniki.ru

Okey.lt

Pazintys.lt

Underskog

Iwiw

Barati

Kor

KP-webben

Lunarstorm

Blip

Bilddagboken

Snuttis

Fjortis

Existenz

Kamrat

Favvo.se

Bendramoksliai.co

m

Other...Netlog

Piczo

Skyrock

Schuler VZ

Sulake

Yahoo Europe

Banzai

Hyves

One.lt

Rate

Orkut V

Kontakte

Odnoklassniki

IRC-galleria

Myvip

Biteplius.lt

Blogger.com

Draugas.lt

Flickr.com

Fotki.com

Pazintys.lt

Point.lt

pupauoga.lt

Twitter

Biip

Flickr

Go Supermodel

Habbo

Nettby

Origo

Bilddagboken

Hamsterpaj

Star Doll

Youtube

Habbo Hotell

Stallet

Apberget

Jesper

Snyggast

Teen life

Other...


REPORT ON SPECIFIC SNS SERVICES

FINDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED SOON

For further findings & details on

methodology see the full report


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