Write@Home
Winter 2015

Technology

Children sit on the floor and use electronics

Nowadays social media is everywhere. We use them to find friends and communicate, for entertainment and for business and for relaxing and relationships.

As technology is everywhere and it became a part of our life and a part of our children‘s lives as well. They use the phones even more than adults, they communicate using different apps and websites, they create the communities and virtual bands. Some people and researchers say that there are different kinds of benefits using the Internet for communication and youth can communicate virtually but unfortunately it very often leads to the unpredictable results.

As an active Internet user I see a lot of hate and harassment in the virtual society and on the Internet platforms.

Youth and teens are very vulnerable and they can't expect hard judgment of friends or classmates or even foreign people when they publish anything on the Internet or even just leave a comment.

Recently I watched the series on Netflix about harassment in school in the UK and the consequences of using social networks by teenagers in middle and high school.

To be honest I have no idea how to prevent this type of behavior between the children as nowadays it has become a virtual bullying and harassment.