Growing up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Living their lives essentially online:
Excluding socially, many people do live their lives online, take for example, the dozens of people who quit their jobs to work in Second Life, a virtual reality 'life' where its 'Your world, Your imagination.' or its 'your world, your way' In the future would we all be sitting in stools goggle eyed and use the computer to move an avatar that represents you?
We might all as well be living on EuroAsia in one big building with cubicules and just 'live'. That might be in the near future- consider office jobs!
Ridiculous isn't it?

Well .. ... Isn't it?

Check Out Second Life for me, Tell me what you think

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

The child predator fear:

NOTE: PLEASE CONSIDER THE INFORMATION BELOW

NCVS data on juvenile crime victimizations reported to police and other authorities indicate that:

• Only 28 percent of violent crimes against juveniles become known to police

• An additional 16 percent of violent crimes against juveniles are reported to some authority other than the police, mostly school officials.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: PLEASE GO TO http://www.ncjrs.gov/ and search for your query and read the statistics! They Are SHOCKING!!!


Considering these statistics, and the open nature of the internet, its very easy to see ho much fear parents these days have, and why. Their children meeting new people online, setting up appointments, and then the worst is to come. A participant of this documentary said: "My fear isn't that I have bad kids, my fear is that my good kids will make a bad descision, one bad judgment, and pay for it permanently". This is reality, if not monitored, kids (meaning EVERYONE who is younger that 18) can make a bad descision, and it would severly hurt them.
people think that kids that THINK they're are old enough, are old enough to have a computer in there room , to meet people you don't know about. That's wrong, im not saying that you should choke them into leaving the house to accsess the internet, but monitor, and keep them close, and TALK... thats the best thing to do in this situation.

Internet safety

Videos:

Clare thought she knew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCTN26umVA

Cyber bullying- talent show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w

Links:
www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

CyberBullying:

This story was so sad, and very disturbing. I think that it was a big mistake that the father gave his son a computer to put in his room, and didn't ask him more about the bullying. I think that the father should have been more active in his sons life, knowing who his friends were and communicating regularly to his sons friends. Thus, he could have avoided the suicide if they would've just talked more. the girl was really mean, and it was totally unnecessary to go to that length.

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Private Worlds Outside Parent's Reach?:
This was very disturbing; personally i think its pretty disgusting that there is a GURU for being anorexic...
There are actually girls who WANT to be anorexic and PRAISE each other on how much time they can STARVE themselves and how many times they can PURGE out there stomachs contents. This is WRONG, terribly, its one thing being anorexic because of peer pressure, but to want to be anorexic... and get PRAISED for it.. its DISGUSTING.
The concert?
Very disturbing that parents have to find out about their kids being in a hospital because of binging...and then a third of the parents are mad at the person who informed them!
3 hospitals had to CLOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE FILLED WITH DRUNK KIDS!!!!!
WHEELCHAIRS TO TRANSPORT THE DRUNKS RAN OUT!!

i think that those two statements speak for themselves..