CNM Update
Media | 10/24/2001 4:00 am EDT
Canadian youth at risk on Internet: Media Awareness NetworkThe Media Awareness Network has found that more than half of children aged 13 to 17 in Canada are visiting private and adult-only chat rooms on the Internet, usually alone. The finding was contained in a survey released today, "Young Canadians in a Wired World: The Student’s View." The survey, of almost 5,700 students aged 9 to 17 and conducted this March, also found that 15% of children and youth who have used the Internet have gone to meet with someone in person that they had met on the ‘Net. Of those, 15% went alone to such a meeting. Boys were more likely to attend such meetings alone than girls, by a margin of 73% to 27%.Other results include the finding that 78% of youth didn’t report pornographic junk mail, 35% of respondents who report receiving hateful emails about others did nothing about it, and 29% of those respondents replied to the emails themselves. About one-quarter of youth have a personal web site, of whom 57% provide an email address, 26% provide
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