Internet Among Christian Youth Essay

ASTORAL CARE RESPONSE TO MISUSE OF INTERNET ACCESS AMONG CHRISTIAN YOUTH

Introduction

The rate at which sin is increasing in this age is so alarming that one need to get certain things right in order to curb the outrageous explosion of sin. Youth are also vulnerable to sin especially through the availability of internet. There are several opportunities, yet several threats to moral and ethical ways of life through the availability of internet and so internet must be given special attention in order to rescue youth from several sin available through the internet. In a world of technology, social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn is becoming popular and available to youth. Youthful age is a period of being inquisitive and this can be one of the reasons why youth are making negative use of the internet more than many of the older generation. The essence of this paper therefore, is to check

Advent and Rise of Internet Usage Millions of computers are connected together to communicate and this is done by the availability of internet. Internet connection makes the sharing of resources and files with other computers possible because it has networked world’s computers together. With internet, online shopping is made possible as well as playing online games, accessing information, communicating with other

It was initiated in the era of private sharing for government and later for organizations, but has also survived and expanded into the era of personal computers, and networking of computer via clients-server and peer-to-peer computing. The availability of the internet and its expansion has really caused rising of new network technology, provision of Automated Teller Machine (ATM), sharing of files without stress and many other things. It has made electronic mail to replace hardcopy mail and thus have the information and still being able to keep such in the cloud for future use