Sex, Porn, Jacko Top Kids’ Searches in 2009

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Unsurprisingly, the types of searches kids are performing online are heavily focused on social networking, celebrities and yes, sex. Apparently, the internet is for porn.

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Sex, porn, and Michael Jackson were among the most popular items kids searched for online in 2009, as tracked by Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton.

Symantec on Thursday revealed the top 100 favorite search terms among children 18 and under found by its free OnlineFamily.Norton service, which helps parents monitor their kids’ online searches. Though innocuous terms like Sesame Street and “New Moon”–a popular movie in the Twilight vampire series–made the cut, sex showed up fourth on the list for boys and fifth for girls, following YouTube, Google, and Facebook as the three top terms.

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