By 2002, an estimated 21.9 million children and 16.6 million teens in the U.S. will be online. By 2005, an estimated 63 per cent of all Canadian households will be online. Online activities E-mail is the most popular online activity among Canadian Internet users. This is followed by searching for information. The third most popular activity is downloading files like games, songs and images.
News is the most common type of information searched for online.
In second place is educational information, followed by health, family and financial information. Canadian teens with Internet access spend about two hours a week doing homework on their computer. This is about one-third of the total time they spend doing homework. Parents' concerns about the Internet Parental concern in the U.S. regarding online advertising has more than doubled, from 17 per cent in 1998 to 45 per cent in 1999. Over 75 per cent of parents in the U.S. who use the Internet are concerned their children may give out personal information or view offensive images online.