Growing Up Online

12 things that did not surprise me 
People have different personalities online.
People look for kids online with ill intentions.
People are more connected each time.
People use fake names in online profiles.
Around 90 percent of teenagers are online at night.
Parents can't control what their children do online.
The internet has become a part of people's daily lives.
People's social lives have now moved online.
Schools can't control what their students do online at home.
Schools are trying to incorporate technology when they are teaching.
Some teachers are failing to adapt to technology.
Technology is causing people to loose attention skills.
People are more nervous.
Peoiple are loosing control of their lives due to the internet.
People no longer feel safe tdue to online predators.

12 things that surprised me

Teacher's can't control online plagiarism, and they can use technology to prevent it.
Students are no longer able to read books due to the fact that they spend most of their time online. People still read online books.
People use online social networks to replace actual social life, because social networks tell people when and where to take their social life.
People compete to see who can get more friends in social networks. Because people don't talk about how many friends they have.

People start fights for no reason online with other people. They will usually look for a reason to pick a fight.
People will change their whole personalities because of something that happens online because they would not like their real life.
people will do stuff online in order to get complements in the real life because their new personalities will never go offline.
People will exaggerate what other people go online even if it is not that bad.
People will  forget about things that happen online because some things are too bad that they can't be completely forgotten.
People will do things that are socially expected online because the internet is mostly used to do things that are socially accepted.
Online Predators are more dangerous than those in the real world even if they are easier to track.
Parents have not done much to to get their childern's passwords even when they are worried that bad things will happen to you.
Parents rather than taking care of their own kids they will send emails to all parents even when it is none of their business.
Parents will support their children to do something online after they have grounded them for doing it in the first place.
People will bully people offline for things happening online even if the person is different in the real life.

12 ways in which technology has changed since 2008

Online life has moved from just computers to phones and tablets.
Now people have internet access to the internet from anywhere.
Now people's privacy has decreased because they can get messages at any moment.
A picture can be uploaded instantly to the internet from today's devices.
people can be tracked instantly from today's devices .
The internet is no longer part of people's lives, now it is people's lives.
People can go online anywhere rather than looked for computers.
Parents have even less control over our online life.
parent's of today's children will no longer know who their children's friends really are.
Parent's will no longer check what their children are doing until something happens.
Today's devices make it easier to identify someone online by the authorities.
Today's devices are taking people's lives into the internet.
People today use they devices for their daily life rather than a computer for certain things.
Today's devices will notify ]you of new online activity and messages
Electronic devices are now cheaper and more people are able to access the internet.

Questions


-What advice do you have for parents about kids and being online(should they have your password , be your friend on Facebook monitor your texts ... what should and shouldn't they do?)

   Parents that try to control their children's online behavior sometimes don't do enough, and sometimes they overprotect their kids. Parents should try to get their children's passwords in order to access their accounts if something happens, but they should not access it otherwise. Parent's should not monitor their children's texts because it would be interfering with their private life. This changes if something happens because this way your parents may be able to help you. Parents have to protect their children , but they also have to respect their privacy.

-What are the biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?

  Being online has many benefits. The internet is full of information which can be used to research  Personally people can express their personality to other in a more open way, and they will have more freedom. They neither give up their real life, nor fell bad about it. Personally you can find websites about improving as a person and this ca help you become a better person. Online exercises will help you improve your skill in certain things, and this will make you better in different things.

-Which topic in the video was most UNLIKE your own experiences and why?

    The topic in the video that was most unlike my own experiences was the fact that predators will try to look for you online. This is because I have never accepted a friend request of someone who I did not know who it really was. I have never had an experience in which a stranger tries to contact me on the internet due to the fact that I have strong privacy settings on all my online accounts. Another important factor in this is the fact that I am not constantly searching for new friends online like other people do. These are the reasons why this topic does not relate to my life.