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Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
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KartveliT
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Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
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Yikes. According to Symantec, the fourth most popular search term for children 7 and under is "porn" - just ahead of kids' networking site Club Penguin.
Symantec recently released the anonymous results of 14.7 million searches run by users of its OnlineFamily.Norton service in 2009. The service allows parents to monitor web activities and supposedly blocks questionable sites, so let's hope the toddlers searching for "porn" were unsuccessful.
It's understandable that "sex" is one of the top searches for teens, but I was surprised to see that children as young as 7 were familiar with "porn." While services like OnlineFamily.Norton may filter most inappropriate content, they are not perfect - and are no substitute for parental supervision.
Other search terms popular with children included social-networking sites, celebrities and online games.
Interestingly, "Google" was also a top search term, which leads me to believe a lot of kids don't really understand how search engines work.
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Posted 12/21/09 1:30 PM  |
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Re: Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
"Miniclip" is the 10th most common term search for by 7 and under?..... Why don't I believe that.... I've never even heard of that term until just now.
I'm not saying the survey is completely wrong, but I wouldn't put as much faith in their results as they are.
Even if the results aren't accurate, DW and I monitor DC's computer use, since I know what kids are able to do, and what may pop up unexpectedly... or on purpose... 
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| Posted 12/21/09 1:47 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
How to Kiss came up on my 8 year old's history yesterday.
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| Posted 12/21/09 2:00 PM |
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LightUpOurLife
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Re: Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
Posted by GoldenRod
"Miniclip" is the 10th most common term search for by 7 and under?..... Why don't I believe that.... I've never even heard of that term until just now.
Really, they have great mindless games!
I find it odd that all three categories have porn/sex in the same number spot.
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| Posted 12/21/09 2:40 PM |
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MarathonKnitter
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Re: Young kids searching Web for 'porn'
as some of you read, i recently found my almost 15year old playing a bdsm game. 
i wanted to die.
i thought i would die when i first saw that he had googled "naked girls"
when we were kids, you were limited to the porn your parents already owned... now, it's scary what's out there.
i will say this, i KNOW my son wasn't googling "porn" at the age of 7. we didn't have a computer back then
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| Posted 12/21/09 2:57 PM |
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