lets use it responsibly

Growing up is hard to do....rite? well apprently if your growing up online life is ten times easier....why? i think because its a world away from our parents one they cant get into and one they cant relate to.

In the video text “Growing Up Online.” directed and produced by Dirs. Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio. it talks all about todays generation and how todays generation of kids is so involved in the internet, there are the pros and the cons, the dangers, the worrries, the misconceptions and the likes and dislikes about it.

In this video has many examples to support this, one of the many being that there is a safe community, a community wheres everybody knows eachother, there are crossing guards for the children to walk to school saftly, its almost like a bubble of safty, but, the internet is the one thing that the parents in this community fell like they cant cut through the internet, they feel like they have the inabilty to protect there kids from this one thing, this one thing that may seem so simple but in reality, is something they feel like they cant even fully grasp completly and cant do anything with it. This was espeally true for a girl named Jessica, also known as Autume Edows, a 14 yr. old, growing up with the internet, she became a gothic model at age 14, but in fact even though "I am only 14, online i looked 18" (Autume Edows), and her parents knew nothing about this, new nothing about what was going on. They didnt know anything untill her school principle called and told them what was going on, after they found out, they were very dissapointed and made her get ride of every file that she had on her computer. In the community that i mentioned earlier, the very safe one, there was one mom in particular that was very conserned about her kids and the internet, she wanted a safe connection and a trust between them, but her kids would never let her into that world. There are many teens out there though that feel like our parents feel like they are not "being safe on the internet." But in reality there are teens who are on it alot, but use it responsible because they realize that it can be dangerous, and what is safe and what isnt. "Most kids dont look for trouble, they just want to socialze with there friends." that is very true you look on facebook and myspace, two of the most social networks at the moment and you will see teens with ALOT of friends on there pages and because of it, it brings all kinds of people together and in so much different ways. At a school there was kids that started a contest to see who can get the most friends on myspace, and they had so many frineds that they did not even know half of them. But it was something else that sent themm over the top, it was a game they started to play and in this game they would give them insults and it got brought over to there lives at school. They started to fight and argue in the lunchroom and seven girls got expelled. We fear what we cant see and that can be expeally true for the internet and some parents after a series of events happens. A little boy named Ryan was being bullied and he seemed like a happy child, his dad taught him somethings to help him thorugh this rough patch and then one day his dad found him in thi bathroom hanging from a noose. His dad wanted answers and went into his computer and found alot of things that talked about death one of them being one of them. He also ffound a friend of his son,and a conversaton that related to death and the last onebeing very short saying that he was going to die that nite. But even though there are so many dangers to the interenet an internet expert says "we should not think of our kids a victims or preditors but as participants." we dont need to fear it, but use it responsible.