Growing up Online

The Points:

DID NOT surprise me:

1. People try to seem different online.
2. Predators are looking for children online.
3. Children have very private lives online.
4. Kids abuse the internet.
5. Technology has influenced children badly,
6. The internet has changed how children think.
7. Internet must always be online for some children so they can socialize on the internet.
8. They try to avoid the real life, parents, etc.
9. Technology is used to teach in the schools, and catch attention of the students.
10. Students know how to do certain things on the internet while teachers don't.
11. 90% of the kids are on the web most of the time.
12. Kids are basically controlled by their phones.
13. Kids try to use Sparknotes to simplify their work.
14. Fights break out in real life about things that happen on the internet.
15. Stalkers often get obsessed with others that certain acts occur which are negative.

DID surprise me and why:

1. Internet safety isn't very advanced.
2. Children had parties with technology.
3. ADD and ADHD can develop which distracts kids.
4. Videos made on the web can be spread widely.
5. People try to have the most friends within the social media.
6. There are websites that can detect plagiarism so that students can be punished when cheating.
7. The internet can be very bad towards people as it can make them be different.
8. People go hardcore when trying to be a fake person who is totally opposite.
9. People try to seem very different with a different age, etc.
10. Parents believe that the real life is safe apart from the internet life.
11. Parents fear that good children will make bad decisions that will change them.
12. Some parents try to have passwords and block their children from social media.
13. Children think that they know what to do once they are exposed to the internet.
14. The sexual solicitations that occurred in the past were not that serious.
15. People try to meet each other with similar interests and relieve their stress in real life on these types of forums.
16. Children are stupid enough to do certain actions that are drinking, etc.

Changed about technology since this video:

1. Social media has been updated.
2. Many of the portable devices back then were different.
3. Phones have been developed since then.
4. Myspace was very popular back then,
5. YouTube was very underdeveloped back then in the past.
6. CNN has changed since the past.
7. Kids were very closed and private in the past.
8. Nowadays children will believe anyone if they seem believable. 
9. Laptops, desktops were different back then with different looks, etc.
10. Parents care very much about what they see on the internet.
11. Smart-boards have changed since the past.
12. The software of technology has been overly changed.
13. Games didn't have such good graphics in the past as they are compared to now.
14. Internet has created the biggest generation gap compared to the debut of Rock and Roll.
15. People brought desktops over to other peoples houses instead of laptops, etc.

Paragraphs:

What are the biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?

The biggest benefits of being online is simplifying things that are hard to do in real life. Sometimes when you don't understand something you can look it up on the internet for easy and simple answers. When you try to write an essay, it can be quite tiring for you when you write each letter word by word; but you can always type it on Microsoft Word quickly and get it printed just like writing. Also, when you want to talk to your friends you don't have to pick up your phone and call or meet them personally, but you can just open one of your social media apps and contact them. Overall, it is very much easier to do things online rather than doing it in the real life with hardship.\

What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?

The topic that I most strongly identify with is the things that can happen in the real life to what has happened online. I haven't really done much online that has affected my real life personally. Thus the time when I was hacked on Facebook and it started adding friends that I didn't even know in real life, it was very awkward to see the people personally. I don't know who in the world would hack my account when I didn't really expose myself to the internet, and I was hacked it was kind of confusing. As a conclusion towards what I have seen today on the movie was that I should never expose or reveal myself as someone different and just be myself when I can. Also, to never bring up things online in the real life.

What advice do you have to parents about kids being online?

To all the parents out there who care about their kids being online, they should try to relax about it. There is only a small chance that your child might be exposed to stalkers or pedophiles in the internet, and unless they openly or purposely reveal themselves it won't happen. Once your child opens up a Facebook, YouTube, or any type of account in a socially interacting website, you should try to regulate their use of it so that they don't get addicted to what they do. If your kid does happen to spend all of his time on the internet everyday, it could possibly lead to him being influenced to create a fake person in order to fit along with other people, etc. So, if you want to have your kid not be exposed to the troubles in the internet, try to regulate his time spent on anything that happens on the web,