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Nov
24

Are you smarter than a ten year old? Who knows the most about the internet in your household? You, your partner or maybe your kids? Well, according to the Digital Diaries study by AVG, over 90% of parents feel that they’re savvier than their children - but are they? We went to find out.

Nov
15

Digital Diaries: Is your pre-teen a ‘digital adult’? Today, we released the next stage of our Digital Diaries research series, which highlights that the majority of pre-teens are now on mainstream, adult social networks like Facebook and Twitter. This time around we surveyed 4000 parents with children aged 10-13. Those parents admitted that 58% of their kids had access to a ‘mainstream’ social network So what are they doing to monitor their children’s behavior on there? • 60% are looking at their PCs. • Two-thirds of parents claim to know their kids’ passwords. • 6/10 access their children’s computers while they are not on them. However, this still leaves 40% of parents who are not checking their kids’ behavior at all and how effective is monitoring activity on a PC anyway. Our fourth Digital Diaries study also shows that kids are increasingly able to circumvent parental supervision. Read more http://blogs.avg.com/news-threats/pre-teen-digital-adult-research-digital-diaries-part-suggests/

Digital Diaries: Is your pre-teen a ‘digital adult’?

Today, we released the next stage of our Digital Diaries research series, which highlights that the majority of pre-teens are now on mainstream, adult social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

This time around we surveyed 4000 parents with children aged 10-13. Those parents admitted that 58% of their kids had access to a ‘mainstream’ social network

So what are they doing to monitor their children’s behavior on there?

• 60% are looking at their PCs.

• Two-thirds of parents claim to know their kids’ passwords.

• 6/10 access their children’s computers while they are not on them.

However, this still leaves 40% of parents who are not checking their kids’ behavior at all and how effective is monitoring activity on a PC anyway. Our fourth Digital Diaries study also shows that kids are increasingly able to circumvent parental supervision.

Read more http://blogs.avg.com/news-threats/pre-teen-digital-adult-research-digital-diaries-part-suggests/

Digital Diaries 4 Results Summary

Digital Diaries 4 Results Summary

Jun
24