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Every year, approximately 13 % of adolescents are sexually solicited online, and about 4 % of the solicitations are also followed with solicitation for contact not through a computer medium.

Most of the adolescents at risk for solicitation are girls of high school age and boys who identify themselves as gay.

Studies show that posting personal information on social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook does not pose risks for sexual solicitation-instead, it is the way that adolescents interact with others online that places them at risk for unwanted sexual solicitation.

Also, though parents often are concerned about adolescents viewing pornography on the Internet, most pornography that adolescents view is unwanted and unsought.

In fact, most teens spend their time on the Internet visiting entertainment websites and websites that are most frequented by adults rather than visiting pornographic websites.