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Many UK kids ‘go without food or sleep to stay online’

November 17, 2010

Excessive use of the internet is very high among children in the UK with one in five admitting they have gone without food or sleep to stay online, according to a new survey.

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A study of online habits from the London School of Economics and Political Science also shows that more than half of young people confess they spend less time than they should on family, friends or schoolwork because of the internet.
In all categories, the survey found 43 per cent of British children agreed they used the internet too much. For Europe as a whole, the figure was just 30 per cent.
Use of social network sites (such as Facebook and Twitter) is also high for young people in this country – 65 per cent of 9-16 year olds have their own profile on one or more sites compared to 57 per cent across Europe.
However the report from the EU Kids Online team, based at LSE, also found that children in the UK are among the most web-savvy, with a good understanding of how to negotiate risky activity on the online and to protect themselves. As a result, the project now classifies the UK as a high-use but low-risk country (where it had previously been ranked high in both categories).
This suggests, concludes the report, that: ‘the considerable efforts towards safety practices have indeed reached their targets. For example, UK children especially appear to have learned that it is unwise to post their address or phone number on their profiles.’
Professor Sonia Livingstone, who heads the EU-funded research project, said: ‘It is encouraging to see that young people here in the UK are learning how to get the best out of the internet without putting themselves at risk. We shouldn’t be complacent though, because our report shows they are using it in increasingly diverse ways and we need to keep new risks – such as anorexia and suicide websites – under scrutiny.
‘Children themselves say they are often spending too much time online. We still don’t know whether it’s possible to be addicted to the internet in the same way as you can to drugs or alcohol, but excessive online activity is clearly worth studying further.’
EU Kids Online is funded by the EC Safer Internet Programme. The UK study interviewed a sample of 1,032 young people aged between nine and 16, along with one of their parents or carers. It was part of a wider cross-Europe survey, which looked at the experiences of 23,000 children in 25 European countries.
Full findings from this and all the reports of the EU Kids Online project are available at www.eukidsonline.net

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