As uncle Ben (Peter Parker's uncle, not the rice guy) once said "With great power comes great responsibility". With the growing popularity of social networking sites we find ourselves becoming more and more attached to the devices that allow us to stay connected to them. How many times a day do you check your Facebook? Twitter? Google+? I know I tend to check my accounts before I go out and after I get back. In class we were discussing how marketers track our cache and cookies to find out where we have been on the internet. They track what we "like" and where we visit the most. With the rise of social networking we lose a part of our privacy. Now we were among the lucky generations to watch the rise of the internet. The generations of today are being born during the "internet boom". From birth they're introduced into this interesting world were you can be connected not only physically to the world, but digitally as well. Now with this development we have to figure out when is the right age to expose a young one to this digital world. We want our kids to be as technologically savvy as possible, but on the other hand we don't want them to be exposed to the grubby advertising companies, and inappropriate dangers of the cyber world.
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-02/tech/kids.social.networks_1_social-networking-sites-social-networking-facebook?_s=PM:TECH
I found this article to be interesting. It discusses the problem at hand as well as how much information do you let pre-teens and teens put on the internet. Personally I believe that we should nurture our children into this technology dominant world one step at a time. We should be horrendously over protective with any information they put on the internet and teach them that once it's out there it's difficult to take it back. While there are social networks designed specifically for children we have to make them aware of the subtle advertising they're being exposed to. We want the kids of tomorrow to understand the positive side and usefulness of social networking, but to also to be aware of the negatives. As well they should be aware that we still live on a planet. That there is a possibility they will be without this technology one day, and they will need to have the necessary physical, social, and communication skills to survive.
I found this article to be interesting. It discusses the problem at hand as well as how much information do you let pre-teens and teens put on the internet. Personally I believe that we should nurture our children into this technology dominant world one step at a time. We should be horrendously over protective with any information they put on the internet and teach them that once it's out there it's difficult to take it back. While there are social networks designed specifically for children we have to make them aware of the subtle advertising they're being exposed to. We want the kids of tomorrow to understand the positive side and usefulness of social networking, but to also to be aware of the negatives. As well they should be aware that we still live on a planet. That there is a possibility they will be without this technology one day, and they will need to have the necessary physical, social, and communication skills to survive.
Since technology has evolved so much in this generation. Kids are getting easy access to the internet everywhere they go. Schools are developong new ways of teaching kids throught the internet and as we move on every kid need to learn on how to operate these computers. I think this send a bad message to the young kids because when they go home all they do is get online and play video game.
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