Online safety and teens

This blog is conserning online safety with teens. You will find many interesting facts on the subject in this blog. I have learned many things in my research and these are a few things i have discovered.Cyberbullying wasn’t an issue in 1989, but it is now. The good news is that 84 percent of youth said they would not forward an embarrassing e-mail about someone else; 6 percent said they would. The study asked youth to respond to this scenario: “A friend e-mails to you and some of your friends an embarrassing photo of a girl from school. No one really likes this girl, and you don’t know her very well.” Eighty-four percent of the youth said they would delete the e-mail without forwarding it. About half of that group (40 percent) say they would also tell “the offending friend that what they did was wrong.” Eight percent said they weren’t sure, 1 percent didn’t answer, and 6 percent said they would forward the photo and message to the rest of their friends.It’s important to remember that this is a survey based on what young people say they would do, not a report on actual behavior. Still, it provides an optimistic view of today’s youth and tends to confirm other studies. For example, a study conducted by Cox Communications found that 3 percent of teens admit to having forwarded a (sexting) message that included a nude or partially nude photograph of a peer.

Teens are not as carefull with there online behaviors as they should be. They are not conserned about the conciquinses that they may face and the affect that it may have on there lives. Teens have recently begun to be slightly more carefull although they are still not as carefull as they need to be. online safety is a nessesity and should be improved in teens because of the high rate on risk involved in online behavior.