The Negative Influence Of The Internet And Social Media

The internet and social media helps so many people in many ways. For example, you can learn new things and there are websites and apps that help you learn new and different things and it shows you how to have safety precautions while using the internet. You are also able to connect with your friends and family whether they are a couple blocks away from you or across the country with different kinds of social medias. The internet and social media is useful for teens. It allows them to learn new things, gives helpful information, and is able for people to connect with people all over the world. The internet allows you to do research on a certain subject or learn something new. For instance, if you wanted to learn a new language you would go

Without realizing it they put a lot of personal information on the internet and their social media. Like they would so much information on their facebook account that a complete stranger would know so much about that person just from the information on your account. Adults should teach their children at a young age on how to be careful on what they put on their social media page. Since it is better for the children to know what to put and not to put on their social media. Because if the children do not take some kind of precaution they could end up being fooled by an older person pretending to be the same age as that child or teenager. In the article called “Internet safety education for youth: stakeholder perspectives”, it talks about at what age should children be taught about safety uses of the internet.“The overall mean age at which stakeholders indicated for starting to teach internet safety was 7.2 years (SD = 2.5), range 2-15. Teachers reported that the average age at which internet safety should be taught was 6.9 years (SD = 2.1), while clinicians felt the average age to start teaching this topic should be 7.3 years (SD = 2.4). Adolescents reported that internet safety education should begin at age 8.7 years (SD=2.4)”. As for who should teach internet safety to the children they thought it would be better if it was the teacher. “An ideal approach for teaching internet safety would likely involve a person or group who could reach most children in order to provide widespread dissemination of this knowledge. An ideal candidate would also have experience teaching about the internet or related safety issues, and be willing to invest in teaching this topic. Given that most US youth and adolescents attend public school, a first possibility is public school teachers.” It is better this way so they do not fall into other peoples trap or put out private information about