Growing Up Online Notes

Did not surprise me

- that there are predators online
- cyberbullying
- videos of parties
- parent reactions to videos online
- parents worried for children
- children saying parents are overreacting
- refusal to give facebook passwords by children
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Surprised Me
- the extremes of cyberbullying because a kid took his life because of the seriousness of the bullying.
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Questions

1. What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?
-  when the boy's mom wrote to the school and took action with something she barely knew about and embarrassed me in some way in the school.
2. What topic in the video was the most UNLIKE your own experiences online and why?
- Cyberbullying. I have never experienced it and i hope never to.
3. What advice to you have to parents about kids and being online?
- to give them the knowledge and education of the dangers that are online and let them use those. As the quote says, give a man a fish and he will be satisfied for a night. Teach a man to fish and he will be satisfied for a lifetime. Teach them to take care of themselves and respect their privacy.
4. What are biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?
- having so much information available in just one place.