In cell phone news, a survey found that 5,400 kids in Canada -in 4th to 11th grade - have a cell phone. More startling is the news that 1 in 4 of the youngest kids were owners of a cell phone.

Media Smarts, a non profit organization did surveys in schools and with parents in various provinces in a country wide survey about Internet usage.

Director of Education at Media Smarts, Matthew Johnson, said that it was no big surprise that 90% of the kids in higher grades had cell phones. But it was an eye opener for Media Smarts to learn that 25% of kids from lower classes had mobile devices.

Johnson told Canada.com, "The numbers were definitely higher than we expected at the younger end."

He added, "The surprise is definitely in those early three grades (four through six) and the fact that in Grade 6 we're up to almost 40 per cent." "Certainly it highlights the fact that we're seeing earlier and more Internet access (for kids)."

Fifty nine percent of the kids said they played games on the Internet while 52 percent responded they read social media posts and another 51 percent reported downloaded and streamed music, movies and TV shows.

YouTube was among the favorite websites from a collection of 3000 sites. YouTube topped the list among 75% of students.Trailing close behind was Facebook, Gogle, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Mincraft, Miniclip, Hotmail and Wikipedia.

Intrestingly, one third of the uderage respondents in grades 4 to six reported they had their accounts also facebook policy stated that an account holder should be at least 13. More alarmingly, 16 % of these kids also had a twitter account.

According to Johnson's analysis, the survey was unique in how boys and girls used the Net in different ways. Johnson added, "Girls are much more likely to agree with the statement that 'the Internet is a dangerous place' for them and in general, experience the Internet and the online world as a much more hostile and worrying place than boys do," Canada.com reports.