LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids
LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids
LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids
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Table 4. What best describes your online friends?<br />
Most of my friends<br />
online I know in real<br />
life<br />
I know about half of<br />
my online friends in<br />
real life<br />
I haven‟t met most<br />
of my online friends<br />
in real life<br />
Year 7-8 16 (61.5%) 2 (7.7%) 8 (30.7%)<br />
Year 9-10 47 (83.9%) 7 (12.5%) 2 (3.6%)<br />
Year 11 6 (75%) 1 (12.5%) 1 (12.5%)<br />
Of the 129 grade 4-6 students who have online friends they do not know in real life 12 (9.3%)<br />
reported that they have been asked to meet new online friends in real life and 10 reported that<br />
they have met online friends in real life.<br />
Of the 82 year 7-10 students who have online friends they do not know in real life 36 (44.4%)<br />
reported that they have been asked to meet new online friends and of these 26 students reported<br />
that they actually followed through on this invitation.<br />
Of the 8 year 11 students who have online friends they do not know in real life, 4 (50%) have<br />
been asked to meet new online friends and of these 3 students reported that they actually<br />
followed through on this invitation.<br />
If they indicated that they had met an online friend in real life (only students in year 7-12 were<br />
asked this question) they were then asked the following open ended question “what it was like<br />
meeting an online friend in real life?” For quite a number of young people their new online<br />
friends were game players and they met face to face at a gaming convention and reported this<br />
to be a positive experience. Some said it was good to see what people look like in real life and<br />
one reported “great & went out for a month.” There were no reports of being endangered by the<br />
meeting, but one student reported “not very comforting.”<br />
COMPULSIVE INTERNET USE<br />
It was important to understand not only what children and young people do on the internet but<br />
also whether their internet use was experienced as compulsive, out of their control, or having a<br />
negative effect on their lives. An adolescent internet addiction questionnaire was developed by<br />
Dr Reid from an adult version and students in year 9-12 completed this questionnaire.<br />
All students completed questions about how long they spent on the internet on a normal school<br />
day and weekend day and also how they felt when they were away from the internet.<br />
26 LMCP Bendigo Region Report
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