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Keeping your safe in cyberspace - part 1 My was born the same year as Google. He lives and moves easily in cyberspace (web, chat, e-mail, IM) - but his is the very first generation in the whole history of the world to do so. I didn't grow up with it, and nor did anyone in their mid twenties onwards. This experience of your growing up with something that is foreign to you must be the same for members of some remote community that suddenly gets a high speed road through its territory. If the adults don't teach the how to cross the road, those are in danger: but the parents have no experience of roads themselves. I have some ideas myself, but I would be interested in others comments/experience. To kick the discussion off, I believe that there are several dangers for in cyberspace: * Using cyberspace and cyber relationships as a substitute for the real world and real relationships, and so stunting their emotional growth. * Becoming the object of very precisely targeted marketing. If the marketeers can track your through cyberspace and figure out that she is (for example) a 6 year old who loves horses and whose birthday is 7 April, then they can in theory pop up an on-line ad a week or two before her birthday targeted at 6 year old girls who love horses. Having your trained by some remote marketeer to pester you for something that the marketeer wants to sell is pretty disgusting in my book. * Exposure to pornography, graphic violence or other undesirable influences. A young friend of my was frequently exposed to internet pornography at the house of another friend whose Mum didn't know or didn't care what the youngsters were doing. His language and attitudes to women became appalling * Stalking by paedophiles and others (a parent's worst nightmare, but statistically less common) So how do you keep your (if you have any) safe in cyberspace? |
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