Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 12:35 AM
Question 2: Should parents allow children under the age of 12 to go on the Internet without adult supervision? Discuss.
The growth of technology has changed our lives dramatically. In the past 30 years, computer was viewed as a luxury product or it may not exist in our lifetime. Today, computer is widely used in businesses, homes, schools, libraries, and even airports. The World Wide Web provides instant access to various types of services such as news, reference information, shopping, travel information and other services. The internet is a worldwide collection of networks that connects millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and individuals. Unfortunately, criminals are also using modern technology. (ojp.usdoj.gov,2001)
In my point of view, I think that parents should not allow their children under the age of 12 to go on internet without supervision from them. This is because there are a number of afraid of thing when they are go on the internet by them. Children who are under the age of 12 do not recognize what is right or wrong. Parent should be supervision them and give advice to their children when they are go on the internet.
Pornography is one of the biggest fears that parents should concern on it. In the internet there are a lot of unwelcomed presence of pornography and graphic photos, videos and images of a sexual nature. Internet have abounds of information of this type and it become one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when it comes to their children when they are using internet. Parents should accompany their children when they are using internet. This is to avoid and protecting them from information they likely not yet able to handle at their ages.
Parents should supervision their children when they go on the internet. This is because there is a lot of false information that may influence their thought. Everyone has freedom to say anything they want online. Basically, people will just post on something that is obviously positive viewpoint. Somehow, there are some of the people likes to posts something which is negative, racist, and derogatory viewpoints online. This may affect their children when they go on internet and accidently found out this kind of information. Children were not able to know how to recognize and point out that there was false information. So, parent should be supervision them when their children go on internet.
Further more, online bullying is also a big issue to the children that using internet. When a child is been intimidated, annoyed or harassed when they go on internet, it brings a long lasting negative impact on their life and well-being of the children. There was an extremely bad record of the online harassment on the internet in an indefinite period of time. It is impossible to remove such violations in the internet. The only way and the best way to overcome and protect their children is supervision them when they go on internet.
Last but not least, online gambling is also another fear that parents should concern on it. There are a lot of online games in the internet. Mostly, most of the games that play by children are harmless or mini games. But, there are many fears that the progression from harmless video games to online gambling is just too simple. Once their children are addicted to online gambling, it’s hard for them to stop gambling. Therefore, parent needs to be more closely regulated when their children is go on internet. (socialmediaschool,com,2009)
As a conclusion, internet brings a lot of convenience to our live. But there are a number of things to be afraid when it comes to children when they are go on the internet. Parents should supervision their children when they are go on internet. This is the best way to protect their children.
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