What are some of the benefits and potential dangers of the internet,particularly to children

Yes, Internet has two sides: the benefits and potential dangers to children.You can see some of them.

DANGERS:

   Children may encounter information that their parents and teachers don't want them to encounter. Examples include sexually explicit content, hate literature, bomb-building information, confusing religious prosylitization, and misinformation about cults and satanic materials. And they spend their time for unnecessary things,for examlpes:

• playing computer games
  playing poker
  playing bingo
  
• sending email messages with goofy or idle content
  writing notes to friends with goofy or idle content
  
• chatting endlessly in Internet chat rooms
  gossiping over the back fence or on the telephone
  
• surfing web sites for fun when you should be doing something else
  reading popular novels when you should be doing something else
  watching the soaps or professional football when you should be doing something else

BENEFITS:

   Children can visit a variety of Internet sites that offer information about, as well as online tours of, farms, art museums, grocery stores, veterinary clinics, hospitals, and schools. Children can experience these places individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.And also, Internet cannot and should not replace human interaction or relationships, nor take the place of activities such as sharing verbal conversations with our children or reading together. However, internet allows children to socialize with other children through the use of email, chat rooms, and instant messaging, increasing the development of communication and social skills.

                                           

                             

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