Czech Children and Facebook - A quantitative survey

The paper presents the results of the survey Czech Children and Facebook in 2015, which was conducted by the Virtual Communication Risks Prevention Center at Palacky University in Olomouc during 2015. The research which involved 1122 respondents aged 8-17 years, aimed to find out basic information about how Czech children use the social networking site Facebook, if they abide by the basic safety principles, what is their motivation for using Facebook, the reasons for using Facebook, etc. The research also examines the risky forms of communication children face in the environment of social networks with focus mainly on cyber-bullying, sexting and risky forms of dating.