Madrid, October 26. – The 92.7% of ten year olds use computers and 86.6% access the Internet, suggesting that both practices, especially the first, are the majority in earlier ages, while mobile usage is widespread after age 13.
The proportion of use of information technology and communication for children of 10-15 years is generally very high: computer usage is almost universal (95.2%), 91.8% use the internet and 63% have a mobile phone, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).
“Teens are online and that can bring many advantages from the point of view of access to knowledge, capacity building, opportunities for interaction and global participation,” said Efe director of legal and social network privacy Tuenti , Oscar Casado.
also responsible for contents and Cybersecurity Research at the National Institute of Communication Technologies (Inteco), Deepak Daswani, have a positive opinion of these statistics, “used to confirm that the population grows at the rate of technology” .
These children, known as digital natives, “are able to handle the technology, digital devices, both computers and mobile devices, sometimes much better and more knowledgeable than their parents,” he says.
“not only handle user level devices, but in many cases learn about interconnect devices, networks, ports and such technical issues, many of them, for example, because frequent online games through consoles such as Playstation or Xbox, “he explains.
But remember Daswani, the high use of technology by children makes them more exposed to the dangers of the network, and often given their ingenuity, and their lack of knowledge in some mischief or aspects, making them an easy target for attackers.
In this context stresses the network crimes that are directly associated with children, such as “grooming” (child sexual harassment conducted by an adult on a minor offender), “cyberbullying” (Cyberbullying among children using digital media for it) or “sexting” (sending erotic or pornographic content through mobile phones).
legal director Privacy and social network Tuenti, of what it “is involved in the safest way possible,” making some initiatives of their social network in that direction, such as turning the highest privacy settings on profiles, not indexed in search engines such profiles Google , not market encrypt data with third and chat conversations.
“In any case, we believe that the best tool is prevention and control education from an early age,” he concludes.
computer and internet use increases between 10 and 15 years to reach 97 and 94% in this last age, respectively.
More significant, however, is the evolution of the mobile phones available: if the 26.1% of 10 year olds have one of these devices, that percentage increases to 41.6% in 11 years , up to 58.8% with 12 years, to 75.8% in 13 years and even 14 years 84.4%.
15 years, nine out of ten children now have mobile, according to the survey of equipment and use of information and communication technologies in homes, prepared by the INE.
sex differences in the use of computer and internet are not very significant, though, in both cases, the girls are above the boys.
The differences are most evident in the case of the availability of mobile phone: 67.4% of girls aged 10 to 15 years have one, compared to 58.8% of children.
(Reuters)
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