Youth Insight Survey on Cyber Safety Brings Student Edge to "The Project"

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Student Edge was featured on Network Ten’s The Project this week, to comment on the results of a survey conducted by its market research arm, Youth Insight.

In the segment (which can be viewed here until 6 May 2018), Student Edge’s Editor and Head of Communications & Membership, Simon Miraudo, remarked on the astounding finding that 70 per cent of students' parents “had no rules for how they accessed” the internet.

The survey of more than 1,200 students also revealed that almost half of all students first used social media platforms like Snapchat and Facebook before the required minimum age of 13.

More than two thirds of all surveyed said they used Snapchat every day, followed by YouTube, Instagram and Facebook in popularity.

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In one of the most alarming findings, 25 per cent of respondents said they had given personal details—including mobile phone number or email address—to a stranger online.

To learn more about this Youth Insight survey—including the percentage of students who said they had been cyberbullied, and what their coping strategies were—read our write-up here.

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