82% kids who break Internet house rules had 'bad experiences'

Around four out of five children who break Internet "house rules" have had bad experiences online, tech firm Symantec said. The 24-country study of Symantec found that 82 percent of the children who broke the house rules experienced something negative online. The negative experiences include being bullied, falling prey to an e-mail scam, downloading a virus, or being pressured to do something wrong. On the other hand, among the children who follow Internet house rules, only 52 percent had experienced something negative online, CNET quoted the Symantec study. The study also showed 95 percent of parents know what their kids are looking at online. This is higher than the 74 percent figure recorded in 2009. Cyberbaiting According to Symantec Internet Safety Advocate Marian Merritt, around 21 percent fo teachers fall victim to "cyberbaiting." This is a modus operandi "where kids taunt or distress their teachers in the classroom and then capture the resulting misbehavior on their cameras," said Merritt. It aims the embarrass the teacher, "taking a momentary lapse of judgement in the classroom and then permanently embedding it onto the web." The study found that 21 percent of the teachers who personally experienced or know another teacher who's experienced "cyberbaiting," or a situation where children taunt teachers into misbehavior, which they capture and post on the Web. Pornographic content Most children in the study claimed that they don't look at porn. Only 12 percent of the children in the study admitted visiting adult content sites when their parents were not around. Two of five (40 percent) of children say they sometimes stop what they are doing when their parents are watching. - VVP, GMA News