translated from Spanish: 20% of the children aged between 8 and 14 have to contact strangers in their social networks

If you have children between 8 and 14 years this study carried out by the Secretariat for telecommunications and VTR will interest you. The “Digital census” was performed at 3.00 users aged between 8 and 14 years in the Metropolitan Region, and served to measure the digital behavior of children and adolescents. The figures released by the Assistant Secretary Pamela Gidi and the sustainability of VTR Verónica Díaz subgerenta, realized for example 20% of children and adolescents has unknown contacts in their social networks, while 8.7% has been the victim of violence or bullying through the same type of platform. Moreover, the report pointed out that what more do on social networks, children and young people in Chile is watch videos (39%); then play online (20%); chat (19%); listening to music (18%); and publish photos (1.5%). In this way, there was that 6 out of 10 children surveyed passed connected more than three hours to Internet and 67% is done from your smartphone.” Digitisation is changing the way in which we consume content from any platform or device. “” Also, since we are in a period of school holidays, children and young people have more time to surf the internet, therefore they are exposed to more digital risks “, said the Secretary of telecommunications, Pamela Gidi.Agregó than as subtel,” We make a call to parents to reinforce the control on the content that their children attend. This, because currently there are, among other things, various digital challenges, calling children to perform certain activities to be accepted among their peers, as well as having contact with unknown adults, who may incite minors to be inappropriate or harmful things to their age”. The Authority advised parents to “engage in the digital world of their children, as this is critical to understand how they use the internet, to which sites you enter and who are related. Likewise, we call for parents use supporting tools such as the so-called parental control, which allows you to keep a record of the activities that children and young people when using devices or platforms streaming play”. The sustainability of VTR, Verónica Díaz, subgerenta stressed – for example – the plan safe Internet, which seek to “educate children and young people in the country about the potential risks that can be found in the network and give them the proper tools to them” enable a more secure digital experience”.

Original source in Spanish