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This research was conducted with the aim of discovering the level of knowledge on safer use of the Internet among children, adolescents, their parents and teachers. What do they know about opportunities and threats connected with the use of the Internet? The research helped to find answers to the following questions: what purpose do children and adolescents use the Internet for? Do they know what safe Internet content is? What is the potential action to ensure safety on the Internet for children and adolescents? What is their awareness of harmful content?

 
The most essential findings of the research:

• More than 80% of respondents have a computer at home and 99.1% of children up to 13 and all adolescents (aged 14-18) use it on a regular basis.

• 45% of adolescents surveyed admit that they have started using the Internet at the age of 11-13, whereas 43% of children up to 13 have started using the Internet at the age of 8-10, but 12% of them started to use Internet as early as the age of 5-7.
  
  
• 46% of adolescents surveyed admit using mobile phones as a means of accessing the Internet.
  
  
• 60% of children up to the age of 13 and 66.2% of adolescents believe that the use of the Internet does not pose any danger to them.
  
  
• 40.4% of children believe that the greatest threat posed by the use of the Internet is its adverse effect on health.
  
  
• 38.3% of parents are not sure (do not know exactly) whether the use of the Internet involves any threat to their children.
  
  
• 50% of parents consider that they do not know how exactly to teach their children to use the Internet in such a way that ensures protection against its adverse and harmful influence.
  
  
• 16% of adolescents and 31% of children report to somebody if they come across materials of uncomfortable, embarrassing content on the Internet.
  
  
• 70% of children and adolescents mostly use the Internet at home.