Monday, May 27, 2013

Growing Up Online

doesn't surprise me:

  • kids are always connected to the internet 
  • or they are always chating/messaging 
  • there are predators in the internet online that can look at you
  • there are sexual predators online
  • random people add you and ask you for your address and personal info
  • girls have many eating disorders 
  • kids get drunk on concert and make disturbances in the concert 
  • parents take action on drunk video and notify the school, kids get in  trouble
  • picture hide some conversations 
  • people delete conversations and take pictures of them 
  • fame through pictures in the internet 
  •  fight on the internet 
Surprises Me:
  • kids cannot get out of the internet well they have nothing else to do
  • kids now do not read books they spark-notes them 
  • no privacy 
  • teachers now accept the fact that wee get information from websites such as Spark Notes.
  • people are being sexually solicited online by internet predators
  • people pray to goddess Ana for being skinnier 
  • kid suicides because he got bullied by the kids at his school/ cyber bullying
  • all the hidden secrets in a kids computer 
  • under age kids upload a video of them drunk to the internet 
  • a dad didn't call back the dad of the kid who suicided 
  • forums for anorexic \
  • internet acccelerates a kid suicidal thoughts 
Changed:
  • no one now has a Myspace
  • people now a days have more possibilities of privacy 
  • now a days kids are less addicted to the computers 
  • parents now a days do not worry so much about 
  • now a days cyber bullying is very common 
  • now parents don't go or hack their children accounts or they can't 
  • people do not add strange people anymore 
  • less public drinking 
  • people can now be easily tracked 
  • phones are more complex
  •  computers are more advanced 
  • more protection online by more recent software 



  1. I identified the most to the topic about sometimes your parents get worried or scold you for being such a long time on the internet. My mom is always scolding me for spending so much time online and procrastinating my homeworks and duties. but at least she doesn't request my password and tell me I have to give it to her. But she tries to add me as a friend so that she can see my pictures and everything. Although I still do not add her as a friend.
  2. the topic of suicide. I have never in my life had suicidal thoughts due to an online experience. Never have  ever thought of committing suicide and never will I think it.\
  3.  I think they should just back off give the kids some space unless things get really serious like suicide and bullying and the kid doesn't tell them anything. That is when parents should get involved.
  4. to make new friends, and be socially available at all times. So that you can interact more with the world and the people in it. Online not only works for friends but for example if you have a job you vcan be connected and talk to your boss from any part of the world.



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