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Argumentative Essay Example II

The document discusses the importance of parents monitoring their children's internet use. It notes that while the internet provides access to information, it can also pose health risks from overuse as well as threats from predators, cyberbullying, and malware. The document argues that the best way for parents to protect their children is to educate them about internet safety and risks, establish open communication, and address issues promptly rather than spying on children's activities without their knowledge. Monitoring should be a last resort and done carefully to avoid damaging trust. Overall, the internet is not inherently dangerous, but parents must help children learn to safely navigate it.

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Argumentative Essay Example II

The document discusses the importance of parents monitoring their children's internet use. It notes that while the internet provides access to information, it can also pose health risks from overuse as well as threats from predators, cyberbullying, and malware. The document argues that the best way for parents to protect their children is to educate them about internet safety and risks, establish open communication, and address issues promptly rather than spying on children's activities without their knowledge. Monitoring should be a last resort and done carefully to avoid damaging trust. Overall, the internet is not inherently dangerous, but parents must help children learn to safely navigate it.

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Argumentative Essay Example II: Should Parents

Monitor Their Children’s Internet Use?

XXI century marked the Digital age in human history and humanity
was introduced to the Internet. It cover every field of specialization
today, starting at any information humanity ever acquired on out to
online communication between individuals. Access to the Internet
requires interaction with a computer, that is proved by numerous
researches to be harmful to health in an often use. Usually, it is linked
to obesity, irregular sleep cycles and shorter duration sleep, impaired
vision, and loss of social skills and we should to be anxious about
our children’s health. But there are potential and more dangerous
threats to the Internet is linked to that we need to protect our children
from.

Protection of the personal information, while you are searching the


web is critically important, especially while using social networks like
Facebook, as it is the most popular way of communication with other
people. Kids often are unaware of what information should not be
shared with an online community, and in doing so, they can incur
themselves to the danger that the internet possesses. Using the
information sexual and other predators can stalk children on the
Internet, taking advantage of their innocence, abusing their trust and ,
, perhaps , ultimately luring them into hazardous personal encounters
(“Teenagers and the Internet,” 2017). Maybe it would be too harsh to
track their activities on the internet, without knowing them because
every individual has a right to privacy, but it is necessary to talk with
children about possible consequences of posting their personal
information on the Internet.

As children grow and spend more time at a school, parents are often
afraid of them to fall into bad associations. It happens because they
don’t know the difference between right and wrong; therefore they
cannot distinguish a bad company from good. And if something like
that happens there could be a possibility that some of their friends
could be trying to convince them to do drugs, shoplift or do
something against family moral code. The better way of dealing with it
would be to talk about it objectively, but if nothing helps to oversee
child’s personal messages and to prevent it from happening if
suspicious are satisfied will be a right decision. The more a child
grows, the less he talk to his parents about what is going on in his
life, about his friends, and where he goes after school. There may be
no need to worried, as he merely visits the cinema with his friends
and by not telling his parents he tries to state a right of privacy and
protect it. But he could also bullied and threatened at school and
afraid to complain to parents. More importantly , with the
development of the technologies, such harassment can run on and on
any place your child goes and can happen 24 hours a day, seven days
a week. It could be rumors sent by email, mean text messages ,
emails or posted on social networks, along with embarrassing
images, videos, sites or fake profiles (Pogue, 2017). Whether done
using technology or in person, the effects of bullying are similar:
they could be reaching for alcohol and drugs, or skipping school, or
have lower self-esteem, or even health problems (Cold et al., 2017).
Whether a child suffers from bullying or is a bully himself, parents
should not make a hasty decision to spy a child’s activity on the
internet, as it will make things only worse. The best way is to have a
comfortable conversation to the kid, asking guiding questions about
what is going on in their lives and how to stand up to bullies or why
the behavior of harassing other children is not the best to establish
social status.

Children may also unwittingly expose their families to online risks by


accidentally downloading malware. Malware is a computer program
that is installed without the knowledge or permission of the victim
with an intention to steal personal data from the computer like
passwords, parent’s bank account, and other sensitive information
( Teenagers and the Internet,” 2017). This program downloads and
installs onto itself while you are visiting untrusted sites or by
phishing. Phishing is the use of emails that try to trick people into
clicking on malicious links and attachments, usually containing offers
to things at a dramatically price or even for free. With the
development of targeted advertising, it became much easier to guess
what an individual is interested in, as it analyzes the browsing history
on your computer. Young people are easy marks for scams because
they have not yet learned to be wary.

The Internet can pose dangers to kids, but it is not the Internet to
blame. In facts, it can open doors of wonder for children that previous
generations could never have dreamed of. The best foundation for
protecting against internet threats is educating your children and
establishing comfortable communication with them fulfilled with trust
and understanding, so they are willing to talk about what is going on
in their lives.

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