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Kids are searching for sex online, get over it
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The media seems to have been a-buzz this week following the release of the top search terms from 14.6 million searches picked up by parental control service OnlineFamily.Norton - mainly because it 'revealed' that kids are searching for sex online.
I am a parent myself, of young kids, and while of course I was shocked to discover that 7 year olds were looking for porn (and that search term was in position number 4 in the 7 and under age group according to Symantec which operates the service) I certainly would not get my knickers in a twist over finding 13 year olds searching for sex online (also number 4 in the teens group popular search list).
It's interesting to note that both boys and girls were searching for sex, although the boys had sex and porn in positions 4 and 5 respectively whereas the girls moved Taylor Swift up into the 4 slot and sex was at 5.
But is it really such a big deal that 13-18 years olds include sex and porn in their top search terms? No, of course not, kids have always been interested in sex as they go through puberty and the only difference these days to when I was that age is that the Internet makes it a lot easier to go look at naughty pictures.
I had to pay a few pennies to sneak a look at the Playboy magazine an older boy had sneaked into school. What is a bigger deal is that sex isn't a more popular search in the age group. Above sex are YouTube, Facebook and Google, with MySpace nestled between sex and porn.
Pretty much the same is true in the 8 to 12 year old group where sex sits at number 4, surrounded by YouTube, Google, Facebook, Club Penguin, Yahoo and eBay.
I do agree that finding porn sitting alongside Games, Club Penguin and YouTube is rather disconcerting in the 7 and under age group though and would suggest that this does not suggest kids are growing up earlier just that peer pressure and celebrity/media coverage of sex has meant that kids are more likely to get exposed to the word 'porn' at a much younger age.
And that says less about the Internet and more about the parenting, in my humble opinion. It also makes for a rather good argument that perhaps parental control software is becoming an essential item rather than an optional extra these days?
The full list, across all age groups, for the kids' top 100 searches of 2009 is:
I am a parent myself, of young kids, and while of course I was shocked to discover that 7 year olds were looking for porn (and that search term was in position number 4 in the 7 and under age group according to Symantec which operates the service) I certainly would not get my knickers in a twist over finding 13 year olds searching for sex online (also number 4 in the teens group popular search list).
It's interesting to note that both boys and girls were searching for sex, although the boys had sex and porn in positions 4 and 5 respectively whereas the girls moved Taylor Swift up into the 4 slot and sex was at 5.
But is it really such a big deal that 13-18 years olds include sex and porn in their top search terms? No, of course not, kids have always been interested in sex as they go through puberty and the only difference these days to when I was that age is that the Internet makes it a lot easier to go look at naughty pictures.
I had to pay a few pennies to sneak a look at the Playboy magazine an older boy had sneaked into school. What is a bigger deal is that sex isn't a more popular search in the age group. Above sex are YouTube, Facebook and Google, with MySpace nestled between sex and porn.
Pretty much the same is true in the 8 to 12 year old group where sex sits at number 4, surrounded by YouTube, Google, Facebook, Club Penguin, Yahoo and eBay.
I do agree that finding porn sitting alongside Games, Club Penguin and YouTube is rather disconcerting in the 7 and under age group though and would suggest that this does not suggest kids are growing up earlier just that peer pressure and celebrity/media coverage of sex has meant that kids are more likely to get exposed to the word 'porn' at a much younger age.
And that says less about the Internet and more about the parenting, in my humble opinion. It also makes for a rather good argument that perhaps parental control software is becoming an essential item rather than an optional extra these days?
The full list, across all age groups, for the kids' top 100 searches of 2009 is:
- YouTube
- Sex
- Porn
- YouTube.com
- Yahoo
- MySpace
- eBay
- You Tube
- Wikipedia
- Michael Jackson
- Taylor Swift
- Gmail
- Party in the USA
- Miley Cyrus
- Club Penguin
- Miniclip
- Fred
- Games
- Facebook login
- Google.com
- Hotmail
- Lady Gaga
- Amazon
- Yahoo Mail
- Justin Bieber
- Addicting games
- Facebook.com
- Webkinz
- Yahoo.com
- Boobs
- MSN
- Hannah Montana
- Dictionary
- Walmart
- Selena Gomez
- Dictionary.com
- MySpace.com
- New Moon
- Runescape
- Lil Wayne
- Google Maps
- Down
- Google Earth
- Norton Safety Minder
- Mapquest
- Boom Boom Pow
- Craigslist
- Twilight
- Megan Fox
- Sesame Street
- Poptropica
- Target
- Eminem
- Music
- Fireflies
- Disney Channel
- You Belong With Me
- Utube
- Weather
- iTunes
- Beyonce
- Pokemon
- Britney Spears
- Hotmail.com
- Demi Lovato
- Funny
- Black Eyed Peas
- One time
- Cartoon Network
- Jonas Brothers
- Halo
- www.youtube.com
- Watcha Say
- Family Guy
- Taylor Swift You Belong With Me
- Best Buy
- Taylor Lautner
- Rihanna
- Pussy
- Gmail.com
- Lego
- Gummy Bear Song
- Thriller
- You’re a jerk
- Nigahiga
- Girls
- Free online games
- New Moon trailer
- Translator
- Disney
- Ask.com
- Paparazzi Lady Gaga
- Poker Face
- Chris Brown
- iPod Touch
- Photobucket
- Bing
Last edited by newsguy; Dec 20th, 2009 at 6:19 am.
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The facts are true and i don't deny them but i'll have to disagree on your opinion that it's not a big thing that that happens.
Children are vulnerable, mentally. They can not discern for them selves what is good or bad. By the fact that they get exposed to sex through the media is a bad thing because it pollutes their _innocent_ thinking! And instead of becoming honourable children they become perverts!... and not only. Children get to swallow most of media's crap. It's crap because all it wants is to enslave people to make them want something by making them believe some thing or another is cool. Media, in most cases is a game for the adults. Wise men decide for their own based on real values what is good or not... while children can't do it on their own and thus become victims.
Oh the cruelty. Don't let your kids become perverts! and don't let them be fooled by the media in believing it's lies. Be wise and build a better, healthier world: take care of your children.
Children are vulnerable, mentally. They can not discern for them selves what is good or bad. By the fact that they get exposed to sex through the media is a bad thing because it pollutes their _innocent_ thinking! And instead of becoming honourable children they become perverts!... and not only. Children get to swallow most of media's crap. It's crap because all it wants is to enslave people to make them want something by making them believe some thing or another is cool. Media, in most cases is a game for the adults. Wise men decide for their own based on real values what is good or not... while children can't do it on their own and thus become victims.
Oh the cruelty. Don't let your kids become perverts! and don't let them be fooled by the media in believing it's lies. Be wise and build a better, healthier world: take care of your children.
Last edited by Alex_; Dec 21st, 2009 at 5:54 pm.
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