The poll also found that online bullying affects a huge number of young people, with nearly one in five teenagers aged 16 to 18 admitting that they have been targeted.
A similar number in the UK also said social media websites always or often made them feel inadequate to their peers, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
The statistics, compiled by YouGov for the Prince's Trust Youth Index, paint a worrying picture of the online lives of young children and highlights the dangers of the internet, the paper said.
Worryingly for parents, 39 per cent of young people aged 16 to 25 said they are friends with people online whom they had never met and whose identities they had no way of verifying.
This figure rose to 46 per cent
