When we think about social networking, one of the first things that cames to our mind is the dangers caused by being online for a long time. The main thing that we are concerned about is how our children are dealing with that. Nowadays with the improvement, increase in technology and digital tools, many children are growing up online, spending many hours per day just sitting in front of the computer, instead of doing healthy activities, being a serious problem in present society . Adults are concerned about it, because the internet can provide many dangerous sources for kids, being able to have a private social life or to create their own fake worlds are some of them. Another problem is related to learning at school, teachers have many problems because first of all this generation is getting used to use abbreviations as much as possible and they usually don`t read books or newspapers. Another threat, which is the biggest worry for parents and adults in general is the fear of "sexual predators" and "cyberbulling" because all of the kids are exposed to suffer things like this online and sometimes they don't know how to deal with this kind of situation. Therefore parents should analyze what their children view on the internet and then should take actions by limiting what their children are exposed to on the web.
To get more information about this topic go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/# and watch the program called "Growing up online"
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