UK teenagers spend around two hours a week watching porn online, according Cyber Sentinel.
…it is probably save to assume that their fellow American teenagers display similar Internet usage habits.
Resarch by the parental-control software company revealed that in total young Britons spend 31 hours a week surfing the web, spending as much time looking at pornography as they do watching videos on Google’s YouTube.
Those surveyed also admitted to spending three-and-a-half hours a week instant messaging their friends and spending over an hour researching weight-loss methods and cosmetic surgery procedures online.
A quarter of UK teens also said they talk… to strangers online but believe it’s a harmless activity, while one third admitted to hiding their online activities from their parents.
“The alarming thing about this research is that it shows that teenagers are obviously exploring all sorts of topics as a result of modern-day pressures,” said Ellie Puddle, marketing director of Cyber Sentinel.
Source: PC World
on February 17th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Interesting, although I’m not entirely surprised. Did the study say if most of the teens watching pornography were older (17+ years)? Seems like a blanket statement there could be a little misleading.
Clint