This is why “To Catch a Predator” is a show
Results of a McAfee survey released today — The Secret Online Lives of Teens —illustrate the degree to which children are coming of age with the belief that privacy doesn’t matter anymore.
McAfee commissioned Harris Interactive to query 955 American teens, including 593 ages 13-15 and 362 ages 16-17. Survey responses were weighted for age, gender, ethnicity and other variables. Its findings echoed those of a similar survey of young adults conducted by RSA, the security division of EMC. The McAffee/Harris poll found:
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69% of teens freely divulged their physical location.
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28% chatted with strangers.
Of those who chatted with strangers, defined as people they do not know in the offline world:
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43% shared their first name.
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24% shared their e-mail address.
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18% post photos of themselves.
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12% post their cellphone number.
What’s more, girls make themselves targets more often than boys: 32% of the female respondents indicated they chat with strangers online vs. 24% of male respondents.
Summary: Girls are dumb. Old men are creepy.
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