A recent poll has shown that UK teenagers spend on average 87 hours a year watching porn online. The poll, conducted by OnePoll, quizzed over a thousand UK teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 finding they on average spend over 31 hours surfing the web.
Depressingly, it appears teens are spending over 8 hours a week not only browsing pornography but also cosmestic surgery, emotional support and weight loss sites.
The research was conducted by www.cybersentinel.co.uk, a software company aiming to help parents block harmful websites and help monitor their childrens usage of the web.
Ellie Puddle, Marketing Director of CyberSentinel said: “The alarming thing about this research is that it shows that teenagers are obviously exploring all sorts of topics as a result of modern-day pressures [and] they find it easier to go online to conduct their research than asking mum and dad for advice.”
Breakdown of the average teenager’s time online each week
- Downloading music 1 hour 40 minutes
- YouTube 2 hours 2 minutes
- MSN 3 hours 29 minutes
- Chatrooms 2 hours 5 minutes
- Virtual World sites 1 hour 55 minutes
- Homework/research 3 hours 10 minutes
- Shopping 1 hour 49 minutes
- Auction sites 1 hour 28 minutes
- Cosmetic surgery 1 hour 8 minutes
- Soft porn 1 hour 40 minutes
- Dieting/weight loss 1 hour 35 minutes
- Family planning/pregnancy 1 hour 32 minutes
- NHS Direct/Health 1 hour 22 minutes
- Samaritans 1 hour 1 minute
- Dating 1 hour 15 minutes
- Social networking 3 hours 47 minutes
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