A generation of children are effectively being "raised online", spending most of their free time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, a report warns today. It says that many under-16s spend more than 20 hours a week glued to the internet, three times higher than official estimates. With millions left to surf the web on their own, 57 per cent of children have seen online pornography, most of it accidentally in the form of "pop-up" adverts. And one in four has received obscene "spam" e-mail, according to the Centre-Left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research. It found that young people are "constantly connected", staying up to the early hours surfing the internet and leaving their mobile phones on all night in case they receive a text message. Apart from porn, many are also being exposed to scenes of violence - such as socalled "happy slapping" attacks - on home video sites such as YouTube.
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