Statistically speaking, your best chance of being raped or killed is by a family member or friend. This was true long before the Internet, and its true now. Sure, there are Internet horror stories and I could tell similar stories that have no relation to the Internet.
The Internet puts a new twist on some old problems. It also provides some unique opportunities. Social networking enables kids to transcend the confines of family or geography and establish affinity and support groups hitherto impossible. You dont have to be at the mercy of the local peer group or the in crowd, you can find friendly folk anywhere, especially if youre different (smart, geeky, gay, whatever). It enables kids to find out the truth about things like birth control, things maybe parents have not been forthcoming about.
Good parenting is as important now as its always been maybe more in a society whose media applauds violence and meaningless sex and the Mafia way of life. But I dont see that the Internet has made that any worse.
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The Internet puts a new twist on some old problems. It also provides some unique opportunities. Social networking enables kids to transcend the confines of family or geography and establish affinity and support groups hitherto impossible. You dont have to be at the mercy of the local peer group or the in crowd, you can find friendly folk anywhere, especially if youre different (smart, geeky, gay, whatever). It enables kids to find out the truth about things like birth control, things maybe parents have not been forthcoming about.
Good parenting is as important now as its always been maybe more in a society whose media applauds violence and meaningless sex and the Mafia way of life. But I dont see that the Internet has made that any worse.