Growing Up Online

Things I Know:
- Parents can control what you do on the internet.
- The internet can be extremely dangerous.
- There is a page where the teachers can see if you have plagiarized.
- Nothing is safe on the internet.
- There are people pretending to be others on Facebook and other social networks.
- There is a lot of cyber bullying happening right now.
- School often gets in your problems with the internet.
- There are places on the internet where parents cab't control you.
- You can be a totally different person online.
- You can joke around with people on the internet.
- You can be on anonymous on the internet and nobody will know who you are.
- There are sites that teach you how to commit suicide.
- You never know who you are talking to on the Internet.
- There are parents who are very naive and believe what their children say to them even if it's lies.
- Facebook shows whatever you put on it. Like personality, what you like, what you look like, etc.

Things That Surprised Me: 
- There were 2 girls who got in a fight which started on Myspace.
- Fights on the internet start for no reason.
- People are more reserved before they start using the internet.
- Myspace is like a Facebook.
- Parents can download a software to view your screen from theirs.
-Kids thinks that naked pictures are not so bad.
- Parents are so overprotective that they want their children's passwords.
- Online predators are worse that "visual" predators.
- Kids now have more difficulty concentrating because of technology.
-  The internet is co anorexia.
- Teenagers now want to be like the anorexic models on the internet.
- Kids hide their emotions and don't talk about them.
- Kids kill themselves for bullying.
- There are campaigns where people bully others.
- There are sites that tell you what is the best way of committing suicide.

Things That Have Changed:
- Nobody really uses Myspace anymore.
- Facebook is now safer.
- Cellphones, computers, and other technological things are better.
- Kids now are more conscious about what the internet is about.
- More privacy on social sites.
- Parents now can view what you are doing on the internet.
- Now more children are using the internet and want to be like the people they see on it.
- There are more social websites now.
- People on the internet saying yes to suicide and health problems.
- There are a lot of sites that were used before that are not used now.
- Now the internet is more co anorexia. There are people dying for it.
- Parents are now more aware of what their children are doing on the internet.
- Children are now committing suicide because of what they see on the internet.
- Social sites are now more private.
- There are a lot of more variety in social networks  Like Facebook (for finding friends), Tumblr (for reblogging pictures) Sound cloud (for showing your talents), etc.

1. What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?
2. What topic in the video was the most unlike your own experiences online and why?
3. What advice do you have to parents about kids and being online?
4. What are the biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?

    The topic in the video which I most strongly identified with was cyber bullying because they have done it to me. I gave my friend my Facebook password and she posted something bad on my wall. I think this kind of bullying is the worst, because the person who is aggressing you has the guts to say it by internet, but not to your face. In my opinion, not only can the person be affected by what the others are saying through the internet, but also, depending on what the cyber bullying is like, thanks to that, the person can also be bullied at school. This is what happened to me. I hadn't posted anything on my Facebook for a while, then my friend came and posted something on my wall. Thanks to that people at school started treating me really bad because of something I never even said.

Me having to be a totally different person when I'm on the internet, than with my friends. I have friends that care about me and show it. This


- I say to let them have passwords and their privacy but if they really want to know something ask them. If you know something is wrong, let them know that you are here for them and they will have your trust. Don't get angry with them if they don't want to share it. It's their personal life and if they want privacy they should get it.


- You can be yourself without anyone judging you. You can go to websites that relax you like Tumblr. On Tumblr you can talk to your followers about your problems without anyone having to know where you live, what you look like, what's your name etc.