Nowadays, it is hard to imagine our normal life without using the Internet. One may object that not only adults use it actively, but children too.
Without reservation everyone can see the Internets’ benefits to children. E-books is definitely very good example of it. To take another example from my own country, children can improve their foreign language skills, while communicating with native speakers. Moreover, they can communicate with their teachers, and can use it to research school reports.
On the contrary, there can be seen so many potentially dangers compared to its advantages. As the first advantage of using the Global system is Cyber bullying. That is social network sites, chat rooms, and especially Online GAMES. It extremely shocks me that how adult people can stop themselves from using social sites, and so how children can find a correct balance while using social sites or chat rooms. As I have noted, Online Games, in these days, take a great amount of kids’ time, and for this reason they don’t spend enough time for their education.
In order to protect children from ID theft (stolen passwords, addresses, social security numbers, credit numbers, and other financial information) there was created a federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), it is designed to keep anyone from obtaining a child’s personal information without a parent knowing about it and agreeing to it first.
As I have shown, it is important to be aware of what they children see and hear on the Internet, who they meet, and what they share about themselves online. In a nutshell, adults should keep a close eye on kids’ Internet activities.
