survey on cyber attitude of school children in india (2012)

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Surveyon

CyberAttitudeofSchoolChildreninIndia

(2012)


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Surveyon

CyberAttitudeofSchoolChildreninIndia(2012)

Conductedinthepublicinterestby:

www.asianlaws.org|[email protected]


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ModeofconductingtheSurvey

The survey covered 13,050 school students (7th, 8th, 9th and

10th standards) spread across Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad,

Lucknow,Patiala,BhatindaandNellore.

The survey was conducted in physical form with printed

questionnaires being handed over to the students in class

duringregularschoolhours.Participantsweregiftedspecially

designedbookmarksbasedonthethemeof"CyberSecurity".

ThesurveywasconductedfromOctobertoDecember,2012.

Someoftheinterestingfindingsofthesurvey

Some children have 14 Facebook accounts and some have 7

emailaccounts

42%feelitisnotacrimetousepiratedsoftwareinIndia

67% children reported having started using Facebook before

theageof10.

26%kidsreportedhavingmorethan500Facebookfriends

36%kidsdidnotknowtheirFacebookfriendsinreallife.

82% reported having received vulgar, offensive or abusive

emailsorFacebookmessages.


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SurveyQuestions

Q1.Howmanyhoursperdaydoyouspendonline?............8

Q2.Whichsocialnetworkingsitedoyouusethemost?..10

Q3.Whatalldoyoudownloadfromtorrentsites?.............12

Q4.Doyouusevideochattingtocommunicatewith

others?...................................................................................................14

Q4.Doyouusewifiathome?.......................................................16

Q5.DoyouaccesstheInternetonyourphone?..................18

Q6.Doyouusegeo-taggingonyourmobilephone?.........20

Q7.Haveyouevershoppedonlinewithoutlettingyourparentsknow?....................................................................................22

Q8.HaveyoucreatedfakeprofilesofyourfriendsonFacebook?.............................................................................................24

Q9.Haveyoueverusedacybercaftologintoyouremail

orFacebookaccount?......................................................................26


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Q10.Haveyoueverusedpublicwifiatanairport,coffee

shopetctologintoyouremailorFacebookaccount?......28

Q11.Isitacrime,inIndia,tousepiratedsoftware?........30

Q12.Doyouthinkapersoncanbejailedforhackingin

India?......................................................................................................32

Q13.Hasyourpasswordeverbeenhacked?.......................34

Q14.Haveyoueverlostdatabecauseofacomputer

virus?......................................................................................................36

Q15.Howmanyemailaccountsdoyouhave?....................38

Q16.Incaseyouhavemorethanoneemailaccount,do

youusethesamepasswordonallyouremailaccounts?40

Q17.AtwhatagedidyoustartusingFacebook?...............42

Q18.Doyouacceptfriendrequestsfromstrangers?.......44

Q19.Howmanyfacebookaccountsdoyouhave?.............46

Q20.HowmanyfriendsdoyouhaveonFacebook?.........48


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Q21.Doyouknowallyourfacebookfriendsinreallife

too?..........................................................................................................50

Q22.Haveyoueverreceivedvulgar,abusiveoroffensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?....................................................52

Q23.Howdidyoufeelwhenyoureceivedvulgar,abusive

oroffensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?...........................54

Q24.Whomdidyoutalktoaboutthevulgar,abusiveor

offensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?................................56

Q25.Hassomeonemadeafakeprofileofyourson

facebook?..............................................................................................58


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Howmanyhoursperdaydoyouspendonline?


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Q1.Howmanyhoursperdaydoyouspendonline?

19%ofthesurveyparticipantssaidtheyspentlessthan60

minutesonlineeveryday.

63%ofthesurveyparticipantssaidtheyspent60to90

minutesonlineeveryday.

18%ofthesurveyparticipantssaidtheyspentmorethan90minutesonlineeveryday.

MostchildrenreportedusingtheInternetforeitherschool-

workorfordownloadingsongs.

Lessthan

60minutes

19%

Between

60to90minutes

63%

Morethan90minutes

18%


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Whichsocialnetworkingsitedoyouusethemost?


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Q2.Whichsocialnetworkingsitedoyouusethe

most?

Facebookwasthemostpopularsocialnetworkingsiteamongst

thesurveyparticipantswith86%of them saying theyused it

themost.

Twittercameinsecondat8%.

Google+andOrkutcameinnextat3%each.

Facebook

Google+

Orkut

Twitter


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Whatalldoyoudownloadfromtorrentsites?


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Q3.Whatalldoyoudownloadfromtorrentsites?

89%participantsreportedthattheydownloadedfromtorrent

sites.Consideringthattorrentsitesarenotoriousforspreading

piratedmaterial,malware,etc.,thisisanalarmingtrend.

Songs are the most popular downloaded item from torrent

sitesat30%.Gameswereaclosesecondat29%.

Moviescameinthirdat21%.Softwarewasadistantfourthat

9%.

Songs

30%

Movies

21%Software

9%

Games

29%

Nothing

11%


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Doyouusevideochatting

tocommunicatewithothers?


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Q4.Doyouusevideochattingtocommunicate

withothers?

41% children reported using video chatting while 59% said

theydidnotusevideochattingforcommunicating.

Yes

41%

No

59%


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Doyouusewifiathome?


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Q4.Doyouusewifiathome?

Alargemajorityofchildren(62%)reportedthattheydidnot

use wireless Internet at home. Only 38% reported using

wirelessInternetathome.

Yes

38%

No

62%


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Doyouaccessthe

Internetonyourphone?


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Q5.DoyouaccesstheInternetonyourphone?

More than half (53%) of the surveyed children reported

accessingtheInternetontheirphones.

This indicates a high level of penetration of Internet enabled

phonesamongstschoolchildreninIndia.

Yes

53%

No

47%


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Doyouusegeo-tagging

onyourmobilephone?


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Q6.Doyouusegeo-taggingonyourmobilephone?

A largemajority (67%) of surveyed school children reported

thattheydidnotusegeo-taggingontheirmobilephones.

Geo-tagging adds geographical information (such as latitude

and longitude) to photographs, messages, posts, etc. Geo-

tagging can severely impact privacy since these photographsandpostsarevisibleonline.

Yes

33%

No

67%


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Haveyouevershopped

onlinewithoutlettingyourparentsknow?


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Q7.Haveyouevershoppedonlinewithoutletting

yourparentsknow?

10%ofthesurveyedchildrenreportedthattheyhadshopped

onlinewithoutlettingtheirparentsknow.

Yes

10%

No

90%


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Haveyoucreatedfake

profilesofyourfriendsonFacebook?


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Q8.Haveyoucreatedfakeprofilesofyourfriends

onFacebook?

13%of thesurveyedchildren admitted that theyhadcreated

fakeFacebookprofilesoftheirfriends.

Creating fake profiles is illegal and can be punished with 2

yearsjail.

Yes

13%

No

87%


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Haveyoueverused

acybercaftologintoyouremailor

facebookaccount?


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Q9.Haveyoueverusedacybercaftologinto

youremailorFacebookaccount?

27% of the surveyed school children reported using a

cybercaftologintotheiremailorFacebookaccount.

Yes

27%

No

73%


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Haveyoueverusedpublic

wifiatanairport,coffeeshopetctologintoyouremailor

facebookaccount?


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Q10.Haveyoueverusedpublicwifiatanairport,

coffeeshopetctologintoyouremailorFacebook

account?

21%ofthesurveyedschoolchildrenreportedusingpublicwifi

atanairport,coffeeshopetctologintotheiremailorFacebook

account.

Yes

21%

No

79%


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Isitacrime,inIndia,

tousepiratedsoftware?


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Q11.Isitacrime,inIndia,tousepirated

software?

42%ofthesurveyedschoolchildrenfeltthatitwasnotacrime

tousepiratedsoftwareinIndia.

58%knewthatitisacrimetousepiratedsoftwareinIndia.

Yes

58%

No

42%


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Doyouthinkaperson

canbejailedforhackinginIndia?


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Q12.Doyouthinkapersoncanbejailedfor

hackinginIndia?

37%ofthesurveyedschoolchildrenfeltthatapersoncannot

beimprisonedforhacking.

63% knew that a person can be jailed for hacking, in India.

Some of these students wrote that hackers canbe put in jail

onlyifthereisproof.Fewfeltthathackingwasillegalonlyif

somelosshadbeencaused.

Yes63%

No

37%


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Hasyourpassword

everbeenhacked?


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Q13.Hasyourpasswordeverbeenhacked?

15% reported that their passwords had been hacked in the

past.

Yes

15%

No

85%


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Haveyoueverlostdata

becauseofacomputervirus?


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Q14.Haveyoueverlostdatabecauseofa

computervirus?

37%reporteddatalossduetoacomputervirus.

Yes

37%

No63%


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Howmanyemailaccounts

doyouhave?


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Q15.Howmanyemailaccountsdoyouhave?

Most students (55%) reported having only 1 email account.

19%saidtheydidnothaveanactiveemailaccountwhile22%

reportedhaving2emailaccounts.

4% reported having more than 2 email accounts. The

maximumreportedwas7emailaccounts.

None

19%

One

55%

Two

22%

>Two

4%


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Incaseyouhavemore

thanoneemailaccount,doyouusethesamepasswordon

allyouremailaccounts?


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Q16.Incaseyouhavemorethanoneemail

account,doyouusethesamepasswordonallyour

emailaccounts?

78%ofchildrenhavingmultipleemailaccountsreportedusing

differentpasswordsforeachaccount.

Yes

22%

No

78%


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Atwhatagedidyou

startusingFacebook?


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Q17.AtwhatagedidyoustartusingFacebook?

A large majority (67%) reported that they started usingFacebookbefore10,whilethereststartedusingFacebookafter

theageof10.

AccordingtoFacebookofficialpolicy,apersonmustbeatleast

13yearsofagetoopenaFacebookaccount.

Before10

33%

After10

67%


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Doyouacceptfriend

requestsfromstrangers?


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Q18.Doyouacceptfriendrequestsfrom

strangers?

36% reported that they accepted Facebook friend requests

fromstrangers.

Manyreportedthattheymetthesestrangersonlyiftheyliked

theirprofiles.Thisisaveryalarmingfinding.

Yes

36%

No64%


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Howmanyfacebook

accountsdoyouhave?


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Q19.Howmanyfacebookaccountsdoyouhave?

While64%reportedhavingonly1Facebookaccount,therest

reportedmultipleaccounts.

Themaximumreportedwas14Facebookaccounts.

According to Facebook official policy,apersoncanopenonlyoneFacebookaccount.

One

64%

more

thanone

36%


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Howmanyfriendsdoyou

haveonFacebook?


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Q20.HowmanyfriendsdoyouhaveonFacebook?

26%reportedhavingmorethan500Facebookfriends.

36%reportedhaving100to500Facebookfriends.

38%reportedhavinglessthan100Facebookfriends.

Lessthan

100

38%

Between100and

500

36%

Morethan

500

26%


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Doyouknowallyour

facebookfriendsinreallifetoo?


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Q21.Doyouknowallyourfacebookfriendsinreal

lifetoo?

36%reportedthattheydidnotknowalltheirFacebookfriends

inreal-life.

Thisisanalarmingfindingassomeofthesefacebookfriends

couldbecriminals.

Yes64%

No

36%


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Haveyoueverreceived

vulgar,abusiveoroffensiveemails

orfacebookmessages?


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Q22.Haveyoueverreceivedvulgar,abusiveor

offensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?

Analarming82%reportedhavingreceivedvulgar,abusiveor

offensiveemailsorFacebookmessages.

Yes

82%

No

18%


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Howdidyoufeelwhen

youreceivedvulgar,abusiveoroffensiveemailsorfacebook

messages?


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Q23.Howdidyoufeelwhenyoureceivedvulgar,

abusiveoroffensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?

Amajorityreportedfeelingsadonreceivingvulgar,abusive

oroffensiveemailsorFacebookmessages.

Therestreportedfeelingangry.

Sad

63%

Angry

37%


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Whomdidyoutalkto

aboutthevulgar,abusiveoroffensiveemailsorfacebook

messages?


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Q24.Whomdidyoutalktoaboutthevulgar,

abusiveoroffensiveemailsorfacebookmessages?

32% children did not talk to anyone about receiving vulgar,

abusiveoroffensiveemailsorFacebookmessages.

62% talked about it to their friendswhile 6% talked to their

parentsaboutit.

Friends62%

Parents

6%

Nobody

32%


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Hassomeonemade

afakeprofileofyoursonfacebook?


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Q25.Hassomeonemadeafakeprofileofyourson

facebook?

22%reportedbeingvictimstoafakeFacebookprofile.

Yes

22%

No

78%

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