British children who are kept indoors for longer duration are more prone to online predators than their European counterparts, claims a new survey.
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According to the study by co-author Dr Leslie Haddon, of the EU Kids Online project, worried parents, in order to safeguard their children against street dangers, are exposing their kids to dangerous online situations at home.
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Based at the London School of Economics, the survey revealed that more than one in four young people in the UK has received "unwanted sexual comments" while using the internet as compared with just one in 10 in Germany and Ireland.
It also found that 17 per cent of children under six used the net in Britain, twice as many as in Europe in general.
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"It's not the case, as some have assumed, that the more experienced you are online the more easy you find it to avoid risks," she added.
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20% of Brit Kids Have Met Strangers in Facebook, MySpace Etc
Nearly a fifth of British children have met a stranger they first encountered on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc.
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"Although more and more children and young people may be under greater supervision overall, by virtue of being in homes, within the privacy of their bedrooms their access to the online world is less easy to supervise," the study concluded.
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Britons Spend More Time on Facebook, Myspace Than European Counterparts
With the demand of social networking sites growing worldwide, a new research has found that British bosses are more likely to curb the use Facebook and MySpace than their European counterparts.
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