Today's teens Aren't the only ones sneaking around

AVG’s global, multi-year, www.avg.com/activate Digital Diaries research project has aimed to determine how the Internet is impacting children avg.com/retail as they play, learn, and grow up in today’s Install Avg With License Number activation digital www.avg.com/activation  world. Entitled “Digital Coming of Age,” the latest phase of the study surveyed 4,400 parents with 14-17 year olds in 11 countries.

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further reveals Install Avg With License Number activation American www.avg.com/activation  parents are keeping tabs on their teens’ online activity. A majority of moms and dads actually give avg.com/activation their children credit for doing the right thing and have minimal concerns about illegal, inappropriate avg.com/retail and career-damaging behaviors, however they  www.avg.com/activate continue to  Install Avg With License Number activation monitor their teens in today’s connected age. The study revealed:

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Forty percent of American parents worry the content their children post to Facebook and other social networks will affect their children’s avg.com/retail job prospects down the road. Adding to this stress www.avg.com/activation , less than 50 percent of American parents feel their child’s school is doing a good job preparing their  www.avg.com/activate students avg.com/activation for the online world. They aren’t alone in their concerns. Digital Coming of Age found avg.com/retail that nearly half of all parents around the globe Install Avg With License Number activation felt that schools were not effective in teaching their teens to responsibly use the Internet.

The first stage of AVG’s Digital Diaries campaign, “Digital Birth,” focused on children from birth to age 2. The study, www.avg.com/activation  released avg.com/activation in October 2010, found that on average infants acquire a digital identity by the age of 6-months-old. Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of children have had their pre-birth scans uploaded to the Internet by their parent – having a digital footprint even before birth. www.avg.com/activate The second stage, “Digital Skills,” wavg.com/retailas released in January 2011 to show that for 2- to 5-year-olds ‘tech’ skills are increasingly replacing ‘life’ skills. In fact, many toddlers could use a mouse and play a computer game, but could not ride a bike, swim or tie their shoelaces Install Avg With License Number activation. “Digital Playground,” released in June 2011, found nearly half of 6- to 9-year-olds talk to friends  avg.com/activation www.avg.com/activation  online and  www.avg.com/activateuse social networks. This was followed with Digital Maturity in November 2011, which revealed how 11 year olds had adult skills in technology.

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