We used to complain about the fact that today's children (unlike us - well-read and correct) not read much calmer than we once belong to two and constantly sitting online. Of course, all parents are well aware that the Internet and the teenager - a dangerous mix that can explode at any moment.
But what do we actually know about the dangers of the child in the network, in addition to almost classic tale of children's chat rooms, where the nickname "Olenka 12 years" may well sit the 60-year-old pervert? So, what is dangerous for Internet child?
Online-baiting
At any school at all times I have always been someone who hunted. Unfortunately, there's no getting around it. And today, with the advent of modern technology, the persecution has become more affordable, safer for the aggressor and, accordingly, more cruel. And if you want to poison their prey became more interesting. Mockery peers turned into a brutal but entertaining game. And most importantly, that the aggressor has a sense of impunity, through the monitor nobody will surrender and the maximum that is capable of sacrifice - is to write something offensive in response. The paradox is that he is drawn away of online bullying, children rarely think about the consequences, and they have openly denied the brakes.
Grass is not because the victim in some way guilty and should be punished, and not even because of its expense, you need to assert themselves, but simply because that becomes interested in the process of persecution itself. In other words, you do want to constantly have a psychological advantage over another person.
According to statistics, half of American children suffered from online attacks peers. In Britain alone, every fifth student is receiving messages from the peer insults or threats to mobile or e-mail.
The consequences of such harassment may be far from childish. Children who are bullied online are much more likely to come to suicidal thoughts than those who just turn up at the school. And not always just try to stay a suicide attempt.
To protect children from the virtual attacks, European countries signed a pact against online harassment. 17 of the most popular social networks now have a thoroughly moderate child posts.
But honestly, I'm not in the least believe that the prohibitions, even at the very level of Europe, decide to online bullying problem, child cruelty and as a result - children's suicides.
Social networks
Almost all Internet users go to social networks. Some have lost interest in him exactly one month after registration, the other tightens the long haul.
What is the danger of social networks, especially for children? The first and most serious danger - totally virtual communication supplants the real life and becomes more valuable and meaningful. But there are other moments. Firstly, whether the child will never know his companion wrote the truth about himself. As practice shows, in most cases, at least, age and external data several "adjusted" according to demand. Well, the purpose of such adjustments, as you know, very vague.
Second, children and young people is much easier and more actively agree to meet in the real world with their "virtual friends" than adult users of the Internet. But the consequences of such meetings may be the most unexpected, ranging from the banal robbery as the missing mobile telephones and laptop, to more serious things in the form of violence or intimidation.
Oddly enough, but for the "burglar" social networks - this is Klondike. What prevents the "virtual friend" in the details to find the address of the victim (that somehow intersect in real life), find out when the house is unoccupied does not happen and unobtrusively ask your child to get around with the webcam apartment (only to see what cool "plasma" bought ancestors, because the same self want). But what happens next depends on your luck and purity of thought of who communicates with your child on the other side of the monitor.
Interesting chemistry or drugs with their own hands
Every day, hundreds of teenagers over the Internet trying to learn something about drugs. And believe me, they are not interested in the lectures of doctors about the dangers of drug abuse. They ask search engines where, how and for what money can buy anything "on trial." And if you can not buy, then how can you make yourself a miracle drug. The worst thing is that they find the answers to these questions.
Go to any search engine and you will find dozens of recipes, where in accessible language will tell you how to prepare from readily available materials drugs.
For example, the same desomorphine, also known as "crocodile". To prepare it needs pentalgin, "Mr Muscle" and conventional sulfur. All that sell baby at a nearby store. By the way, if the child will show curiosity, they even find instructions on how and what can be replaced pentalgin if it suddenly is not in your local pharmacy, and what preparations still contain codeine. All of these drugs are sold without prescriptions.
In other words, all that is necessary for the child to try self-made drugs - is Internet access, a couple of hours of your absence and a little personal money. A draw your own conclusions.
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Apart from bullying their peers, children find on the net many other equally exciting, but no less dangerous occupations. According to statistics, in Russia alone on the Net every day sitting around 10 million users, which is not present and 14 years. Of these, 39% are already looking for porn. 16% want to play games of chance. Every seventh child is trying to get the search engines to find out where to get drugs and alcohol.
You say it with them, so sad in far in Russia, as we say, everything is under control? Yes, stop. You are sitting at work and read this stuff, and your child came home from school, "to make a lesson" and sitting in its web. You will convince yourself that you know exactly what it is doing there? God forbid that you were right. But listen to the good advice - install on a home computer keystrokes. There will be one of two things - either you make sure that everything is in order and you will sleep soundly at night, or you will learn about the life of her child what did not guess.
Psychologists cravings children forbidden to explain is very simple - it is an attempt to test the boundaries of what is permitted. In other words, children are trying to do something in the real world and check what you can do, and what not. And, paradoxically, but the brutality and aggressiveness of children become synonymous with activity.
First Person Shooter or Little Monsters
We, adults, are extremely difficult to understand how children can spend hours playing in these "wacky shooter", but even more so to walk with friends in the computer clubs. And, it seems, some arguments have reinforced concrete - in the first place, the money in the club, they do not win, but only lose, secondly, the time flies by very quickly and you have to pay for it, and thirdly (and we think that is the most important argument) the game virtually meaningless.
But, as practice shows, games where shooting is conducted in the first person, children (and not only for boys) in special honor. Can be a long debate about the split personality and that zashugannyh school patsanenok in the game can come up with yourself cheeky nickname and try on the image of a tough guy. But let it engage psychologists, it's their bread.
History knows many cases where people have two or three weeks away from the computer without interrupting the game. Why? What's so special that it pushes out of our consciousness the real life? But everything is very simple - the brighter and more interesting life on the other side of the monitor, the more boring it seems here. And let's be honest, shooting for bots or real opponents will give the child a brighter range of emotions than prolonged nagging parents "do the lessons and take a walk with the dog."
Have you ever wondered how to destroy rivals shooter? They can drown, shoot, blow up, slaughter, etc. Choose how limitless murder. According to psychiatrists, without a trace of the child's mind to pass it can not in principle. And not just because the fact of murder (albeit virtual) - this is a manifestation of violence and by the way, is not always this zhestokovst somehow motivated.
The problem is that the child has lost orientation in real space. Permanent opportunity to save before the dangerous turns and recover after the opponent made an accurate shot, superimposed on the real life. There is a feeling in their own invulnerability and in real life. But the worst thing - lost feeling others' pain, and even a remote hint of empathy. No cries, no blood, no suffering of the defeated opponent do not cause absolutely no human emotions. In my head is spinning only one thought - that killed him, it's time to take on next. The worst thing, according to psychiatrists that children are directly involved in the murder, even if virtual. What is happening with the child's mind, the language specialists called "immune to the pain of others."
Killed you - pay
Kids with entrepreneurial spirit has long been realized that the absolute knowledge of each step in a particular game, you can make good money. It would seem, who will pay the kid? The paradox is that, first of all, you do not know who you are paying and can trivially reset the lost amount on card with a single purpose - to fight again in the next fight so be sure to win this strong opponent. But even if you know that before you
But there is another, less "white and fluffy" - an ordinary crime, or speaking in plain language, of the burglary of the game, the victory in which for some reason is so important. Of course, to write a hacking program can not everyone, but podsobrat some money and pay for its manufacture and launch the power of anyone, regardless of age and the presence of the brain.
Bold journalistic experiment
Journalists - people are curious and a little crazy. Not always we are working only on an assignment or for a fee. Sometimes we live our material, and as they say "cherish it." Wanting to have better arguments against the long hours of shooting games than dull "it's bad", the journalists went to the experiment. Our penmate exactly 12:00 played in the game (and mind you, this is a grown man, with a strong mentality). After 12 hours of game psychiatrist test conducted with a test by the method of free association. The psychiatrist called word, and our colleague the first association that comes to mind.
Questions and Answers quote verbatim:
Wood - hide
Window - squat
Corridor - run
Silence - killed
Noise - kill
Impressive?
P.S.Despite all the cries about the negatives of the Internet for children, there is a downside - not knowing the computer, we risk not fit into modern society. Life is simply obliged to own a computer since childhood, but that will give the best computer for your child depends on you.
