In response to ISPA’s question; 21% of teenagers are unsupervised online

ISPA Public relations: Iranian students’ polling agency in a national survey in February 2016 polled people’s opinion on social networks. In this phone survey conducted with a sample of 1500 people, 72% of respondents lived in urban and 28% in rural areas, and 50% male. The average age of respondents is 38 years old. 61% of the sample graduated high school and below, and 39% had an academic education; 69% married, 27.5% single and 3.5% have been divorced or widowed

As part of this survey families with teenagers between ages of 10 to 17 have been asked if they use online social networks. 55% answered positive. Answering the devices used to reach these networks (with multiple choices) 40% said their teenager used cellphone to use social networks, 6% with their parents’ cellphone and about 13% using computer, laptops and tablets

Next question was about parental control over use of internet 21% of respondents claimed no supervision over the teen using social networks. 11% said to try to control the amount of the time online, and 11% claimed to control the content used, finally 56% claimed to control both time and content