The study:
Between February 2009 and July 2009, Symantec tracked a total of 3.5 million searches that were submitted by users of their OnlineFamily.Norton service. The list of search terms was ranked from those submitted most frequently to those submitted the least. In order to be included in the list of kids’ top search terms, a search term had to have been submitted at least 50 times by registered users of OnlineFamily.Norton.
The results:
1. YouTube
2. Google
3. Facebook
4. Sex
5. MySpace
6. Porn
7. Yahoo
8. Michael Jackson
9. Fred (A popular fictional character whose YouTube channel has become a hit among kids.)
10. eBay
All I know is that if I had had the internet when I was a kid, you’d better believe I’d be searching for sex and porn instead of scrabbling through my parents’ book shelf for a dog-eared copy of The Joy of Sex (which only has line drawings in it, for crying out loud).
Parents can breathe a sigh of relief, however, that “Boobs” was knocked down to #28 on the list.
At least if these kids are doing naughty searches on the internet, they have less time to prank call the store and tell me, in their prepubescent high-pitched voices, that they “have the biggest cock in the world.” In the WORLD! Incredible.
You can read the full article and list here.
