First of all, the Internet has the power to bring both advantages and disadvantages to its users. Many parents are concerned about how their children operate on the Internet. They are afraid that their children would come across inappropriate content that is out of their control of preventing. Authors Terhi Tuukkanen and Terhi-Anna Wilska (2015), say that online risks cannot be stopped. Such risks have been spotted and studied for several years. Antisocial behavior, and security threats are just some of the drawbacks people face while navigating online. Online disadvantages include risks such as reduced social interactions, encounters with absolute strangers, inappropriate content, and health threats. Tuukkanen and Wilska claim that when children
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While conducting their research, Tuukkanen and Wilska found out that the youth’s feelings of lonesomeness have shot up as a result of how intimate relationships have been facilitated lately by technology. According to (Staksrud, 2013) the most common Internet risk children face is not having met face-to-face with someone they often interact with online. Parents are typically concerned with who their children are actually chatting with online. Unknowingly, children could be having intimate chats with thieves, serial killers or even psychopaths. Such people perceive children as the easiest targets to deceive since they are juvenile, and eager to make friends. While online, gullible children can be cunningly tricked by those who master the art of online deception. Scholars Tsikerdekis and Zeadally (2014), state that impersonation is one standard example of online deception. They claim that identity deception or theft is a typical crime committed by people who are after trouble. Therefore, children who are open to chatting online with whomever is willing to chat can burry themselves into a deep hole of …show more content…
Rather than bringing them disadvantages, the Internet serves many advantages on a silver platter to those who use it. Children can benefit from the Internet in countless ways. Those ways being finding information online that aids their knowledge, and instant chatting they could enjoy with their friends. Also, children get the privilege of amusing themselves by playing the endless number of games available on the Web. Children claim to relish in the pleasant opportunities they partake in while surfing the web more than the unpleasant ones (Soeters and van Shaikh, 2006). The argument that the Internet reduces social interactions conflicts that fact that it actually builds relationships. Nowadays where social media is the world’s center of attention, being social does not necessarily mean having to meet head-on with someone. Being active on social media can be considered as a certain type of socializing. If parents prevent their children from enjoying their social status online they could be obliterating their kids’ chances to shake hands with prodigious opportunities. When parents plant the seeds of fear and anxiety into their children regarding their social involvement on the Internet, all they are doing is regressing their child’s knowledge of the ever-evolving technology, and compelling him or her to develop trust issues (Storm P.C. and Storm R.D., 2009).
While conducting their research, Tuukkanen and Wilska found out that the youth’s feelings of lonesomeness have shot up as a result of how intimate relationships have been facilitated lately by technology. According to (Staksrud, 2013) the most common Internet risk children face is not having met face-to-face with someone they often interact with online. Parents are typically concerned with who their children are actually chatting with online. Unknowingly, children could be having intimate chats with thieves, serial killers or even psychopaths. Such people perceive children as the easiest targets to deceive since they are juvenile, and eager to make friends. While online, gullible children can be cunningly tricked by those who master the art of online deception. Scholars Tsikerdekis and Zeadally (2014), state that impersonation is one standard example of online deception. They claim that identity deception or theft is a typical crime committed by people who are after trouble. Therefore, children who are open to chatting online with whomever is willing to chat can burry themselves into a deep hole of …show more content…
Rather than bringing them disadvantages, the Internet serves many advantages on a silver platter to those who use it. Children can benefit from the Internet in countless ways. Those ways being finding information online that aids their knowledge, and instant chatting they could enjoy with their friends. Also, children get the privilege of amusing themselves by playing the endless number of games available on the Web. Children claim to relish in the pleasant opportunities they partake in while surfing the web more than the unpleasant ones (Soeters and van Shaikh, 2006). The argument that the Internet reduces social interactions conflicts that fact that it actually builds relationships. Nowadays where social media is the world’s center of attention, being social does not necessarily mean having to meet head-on with someone. Being active on social media can be considered as a certain type of socializing. If parents prevent their children from enjoying their social status online they could be obliterating their kids’ chances to shake hands with prodigious opportunities. When parents plant the seeds of fear and anxiety into their children regarding their social involvement on the Internet, all they are doing is regressing their child’s knowledge of the ever-evolving technology, and compelling him or her to develop trust issues (Storm P.C. and Storm R.D., 2009).