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土耳其网站Tipeez.com高管称儿童乐于登录社交网站

发布时间:2011-02-22 17:01:18 Tags:,,,

日前,一家面向儿童的土耳其网站总经理表示,土耳其目前共有200万名尚未进入青春期的儿童网络用户,其中有许多人平均每天花三四个小时在社交网络及视频分享网站逗留。

Tipeez.com的总经理Haymi Behar在上周表示,“7到14岁的儿童每天花到4个小时上网看视频、分享内容、收发电子邮件、搜索有关家庭作业的内容。”据他所称,约31%的土耳其儿童每天都上网,其中年龄在7岁以下的儿童网民占11%。

Behar表示,“孩子们在网上搜索最多的关键词是名人,他们喜欢在互联网上共享信息。40%的孩子拥有属于自己的电脑,有39%的孩子使用的是家庭电脑。”

游戏邦了解到,土耳其的社交网站使用率是65%,比欧洲的平均值高出了18%。对此Behar认为,“这是因为土耳其人是地中海居民,地中海居民乐于分享自己的情绪。”

据Behar表示,最受欢迎的社交网站Facebook不允许13岁以下的儿童登录,但有许多儿童隐瞒自己的年龄,注册成为该网站的正式用户。他认为,“保证儿童在互联网上的安全十分重要,而在这个问题上,父母应承担最主要的责任。”

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Tipeez.com是一家面向儿童用户的国际网站,通过Tweegee.com和Tvidi.ru这两个不同的域名,提供英语和俄语服务。Behar向媒体表示,他们很快将推出德语、法语和意大利语网站。目前该网站用户数量已达64万人,他们在网站上拥有一个带有私人聊天室的“家”。

Behar表示,“有些孩子的家里挂着土耳其共和党创始人穆斯塔法·凯末尔·阿塔土克(Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)的海报,而有些孩子则喜欢张贴流行歌手的照片,孩子们喜欢下载图片,并将它设置为自己的电脑桌面。”

除此之外,Tipeez.com还向儿童用户提供1000款左右的热门游戏。

该网站近期一项针对12000名儿童的调查显示,32%的儿童在13岁之前得到了自己的第一部手机,有半数儿童均表示想要一部iPhone。

Behar称,Tipeez.com拥有一个良好的安全系统,不允许使用不文明用语。“如果孩子们说脏话,系统会自动屏蔽它们。”他还补充道,他们有一个10人团队负责监控用户评论和聊天室的网络环境。

他表示,“我们十分重视网站的安全性及儿童的心理发展”,该网站的代表会定期出席由教育部举办的儿童互联网研讨会。此外,该网站近日也与一个国际基金达成协议,将由此获得网络安全方面的投资。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Children love social networking, says manager of Turkish site

Many of Turkey’s 2 million pre-teen Internet users frequently use social networking and video-sharing websites during the daily three to four hours they spend online, according to the general manager of a website serving children.

“Children aged 7-14 years old spend three-four hours a day on the Internet watching videos, sharing content, checking e-mails and doing research for their homework,” Haymi Behar, general manager of Tipeez.com, told a marketing conference late last week.

Some 31 percent of children go online everyday and 11 percent of children using the Internet are under the age 7, Behar said.

“The words children search most on the Internet are famous people’s names,” said Behar. “They love sharing information on the Internet. While 40 percent of kids have their own computer, 39 percent use the family computer.”

The rate of using social networking websites in Turkey is 65 percent, 18 percent higher than the average in Europe, said Behar. “Turks are Mediterranean people, and Mediterranean people love sharing their feelings.”

Facebook, the most popular social networking site, does not allow children under 13 to be members, but many children lie about their age and are active members of the website, according to Behar.

“Keeping children safe on the Internet is very important and the most important job on this issue belongs to the parents,” he said.

Tipeez.com is an international website geared toward children that also offers services in English and Russian under the names Tweegee.com and Tvidi.ru, respectively. “We will soon launch other websites in German, French and Italian,” Behar told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.

The website has 640,000 members that all have a “house” that comes with a private chat room on the website.

“Some of the children’s homes have posters of [Turkish republican founder] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, while some use pictures of popular singers,” said Behar. “The children download the images and use it as wallpaper on their computers.”

The website also offers around 1,000 games that are very popular among children.

According to a recent survey on the website answered by 12,000 children, 32 percent of children received their first mobile phone before the age of 13 while 50 percent want to own an iPhone.

Behar said the website had a good security system that did not permit the use of bad language or obscenities.

“When the children use a swear word, the system automatically logs them off,” Behar said, adding that the moderation of the comments and chat rooms was conducted by a team of 10 people.

“We are very sensitive about the website’s security and also the psychological development of children,” Behar said, adding that representatives of the website were regular attendees of “Internet access for children” seminars held by the Education Ministry.

The website also recently made an agreement with international funds to invest in security, Behar said.(source:hurriyetdailynews)


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