Children who become Internet victims have their own behaviors

According to a national telephone survey, one in five children in a year has been seduced by unwanted sex or harassed online. Typical Internet security programs encourage children to avoid gluing up personal information online, ignoring other behaviors that research results show are those behaviors that lead to harm.

According to a psychologist-led research group on Internet Solutions for Kids - Michael L. Ybarra of the non-profit research organization in Irvine, California, shares the name, Contact information, and other personal data on the Internet did not increase the likelihood of being turned into a network victim. Of the 1,497 children and teenagers interviewed, 831 admitted to having posted personal information online. In addition, 1 out of 3 children said that having a friend online has never met.

(Photo: infocusmagazine) According to a research report in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine magazine of the research team, the majority of victims of being involved in sexual relations or harassment are related to at least 4 or more more troublesome behavior when using the Internet. These behaviors include contact with people in different places, talking about sexuality with people you don't know, putting strangers names on your friends list, giving criticism. indecent and obscene to anyone, deliberately entering X-type websites.

Ybarra's group notes more risky online behaviors that occur when children use the Internet with you or peers who take up almost half of the time.

The victims also said the excessive level of problems in their daily lives include sexual abuse, violence, severe conflicts with parents, and being victims of bullying in school

Although no one studies the effects of other methods to prevent young victims online, researchers recommend that parents and psychologists should equip children with methods. to reduce the danger caused by their own behaviors. For example, adults can tell children that they have stopped their online relationships by changing their username or preventing the entry of a stranger into their social network.

Ybarra and her colleagues conducted random interviews with children aged 10 to 17 years between March 2 and June 11, 2005. Experiments with equal numbers of men and women were involved, of which 3/4 participants were white.

The interviewer asked each child to evaluate in the past year they often stick to any of the 9 online behaviors that cause safety concerns. They were also asked whether to receive online relationship suggestions or be harassed or not, for example, intimidated and difficult to post or post messages about them for others to see.

New data from the University of Washington in Seattle, Dimitri A. Christakis, is an assessment of the way children are exposed to virtual worlds as a way of reflecting the way they do in the real world.

Anh Phuong