- Do parents actually foresee such problems happening to be able to educate their kids.
- How many parents are actually capable of educating their kids on such issues.
I think those are excellent questions Prism. And I think they are the root of the issue.
I know my parents never would have conceived of online grooming when I was a teenager, because they had no clue about the dangers of chat rooms, etc. They most certainly wouldn't have been able to talk to me about it, because I thought I knew far more about being online savvy than they did. I would have laughed at them. I think it was sheer luck that I wasn't groomed.
I have a hard time understanding online bullying, because social networks like facebook have only been around since I was in my mid-20's (past the bullying age). So while I will try and teach my son about the dangers of bullying, no doubt by the time he's a teenager there will be some new dimension to it that I won't understand.
While I usually not one to blame things like violent videogames and bullying on technology, I do think facebook and twitter, etc. has given teenagers a new way to bully that is quite dangerous. Instead of just being bullied at school, they can now be emotionally abused 24/7 by people who hide behind the anonymity of the internet (like BG) and who don't care what they say or what happens to the person they bully.
- Do parents actually foresee such problems happening to be able to educate their kids.
- How many parents are actually capable of educating their kids on such issues.
I think those are excellent questions Prism. And I think they are the root of the issue.
I know my parents never would have conceived of online grooming when I was a teenager, because they had no clue about the dangers of chat rooms, etc. They most certainly wouldn't have been able to talk to me about it, because I thought I knew far more about being online savvy than they did. I would have laughed at them. I think it was sheer luck that I wasn't groomed.
I have a hard time understanding online bullying, because social networks like facebook have only been around since I was in my mid-20's (past the bullying age). So while I will try and teach my son about the dangers of bullying, no doubt by the time he's a teenager there will be some new dimension to it that I won't understand.
While I usually not one to blame things like violent videogames and bullying on technology, I do think facebook and twitter, etc. has given teenagers a new way to bully that is quite dangerous. Instead of just being bullied at school, they can now be emotionally abused 24/7 by people who hide behind the anonymity of the internet (like BG) and who don't care what they say or what happens to the person they bully.
It's really worrying.