LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids

Figure 3. Activities on the internet – Year 11
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For primary school children, playing games, doing homework, and surfing websites were the
most common activities. With high school students a behaviour change in accord with
adolescent development is apparent as the most common behaviours are downloading
music/videos (i.e. becoming experts and participating in current popular culture) and social
networking (development of the importance of peers and social connection).
DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
Students were asked which types of personal information they had entered into any site on the
internet: with the options being name, home address, school, age, photos, city, phone numbers
and credit card details. Fifteen (5.3%) grade 4-6, 3 (5.6%) year 7-8, 8 (10.7%) year 9 – 10, 1
(9.1%) year 11 students have entered their full name, address, and phone number into a
website. No grade 4-6 students, 2 (3.7%) year 7-8, 2 (2.7%) year 9-10, and no year 11students
have entered their parents‟ names, address or phone number and credit card number into a
website. These results suggest that majority of students are being careful about providing their
personal information on the internet.
SOCIAL NETWORKING PROFILES
Sixty-two (21.83%) students in grades 4-6, 27 (50%) students in year 7-8, 57 (76%) students in
year 9-10, and 9 (69%) of students in year 11 reported having a social networking profile such
as facebook, bebo or MySpace. Students were asked to nominate which pieces of their personal
information are on public display (i.e. can be seen by anyone as opposed to the “friends only”
setting) in their social networking profiles.
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