The danger of the social network

The danger of the social network is increasingly harmful to the children especially these days. Most of the children and teenager are addicted to social network sites and spending hours on internet. Social networking is more addictive than cigarette or alcohol.

Therefore, social network sites are extremely dangerous to our children. We must take steps to prevent such addiction happened to our children.

The parents, schools, teachers and guardians must be vigilant and alert whenever the children are accessing to the internet. Children navigate themselves very well around the World Wide Web.

They use the Internet to research for school works or assignments, playing games, and social networking. Just because children know a lot about using the Internet does not mean that they know very much about Internet safety.

Children do not always know when they are in danger on the Internet. Parents need to talk to their children about the danger involved in social networking. Further, parents need to explain to children that it is not okay to give out personal information about themselves to people they have met online.

Giving full names, addresses, school names, phone numbers, birthdays, and any other type of personal information are very dangerous. Predators can use any combination of personal information to find the children and harm them.

I must say that social networking is both directly and indirectly affecting the children social, psychological, academic development. And it is vital for the parents to monitor the children. Parents should set the time limits for the children to access to the internet.

But most importantly, parents should dedicate quality time with their children such as a day-out trip and family gathering. This will reduce the time for the children to indulge into the internet.

On the other hand, the schools should make it a compulsory that the students participate in co-curricular activities such as camping, charity works, school based service organization and/or take-up a sport.

Let us work towards preventing our young generation get addicted to social network. However, we must not forget that internet does bring us positive development if we used it wisely and prudently.