It is well known that Internet pornography is something that we should keep our children well aware and away from. Internet pornography sites should only be accessible to adults, yet it is increasingly and increasingly easier for children to log in to a high-speed Internet connection from anywhere – school, libraries, coffee shops, home – and view these types of websites.
With the expansion of Internet websites like Myspace and Facebook, we saw the birth of social media where users can connect and chat with each other on an easy to customize homepage of their own. Social media has been taken even further, though. Microblogging platforms like Twitter and Pownce have been developed. These allow Internet surfers to create an account and send small messages to friends and followers. However, some of these microblogging platforms have gone sour due to Internet pornography. And children are susceptible to these issues as they are some of the most frequent visitors to these sites.
Children can use microblogging to send messages and short ideas to anyone who might be following them. In some cases, some of these followers might be spamming webmasters who use social media and microblogging networks to spam their porn websites out to thousands of people. Children can thusly be affected by these incoming messages, and view pornography from a website that should have been protected from these sorts of activities.
Because these microblogging platforms now seem incapable of protecting our children from Internet pornography and other types of spam, the responsibility is now on us, the adults, to teach our children what they should do if they ever encounter unexpected pornography on the Internet. As a suggestion, we think you should talk to your children about how you can better protect them face to face. This can give a child an increased sensation of self-management and help them make their own, proper decisions on what websites they choose to affect their own lives.
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The responsibility to keep our children away from things they’re not yet wise enough to process intellectually has ALWAYS been on the parents. It always infuriates me when someone talks about some business or website or organization “not doing enough to protect our children from..” . Obviously, nobody should be marketing beer in a middle school, or showing porn vids at a Toys R Us, but some of the things that are being DEMANDED of entities are simply ridiculous. Get involved in your child’s life. Now. Establish that you’re the boss. Now. Teach your children right from wrong from the beginning, enough of this “he’s just expressing himself” bullcrap. Screaming in a restaurant and hitting your mother is not “expressing” that’s anti-social behavior. (I see this daily) Teach the idea that actions have consequences, both good and bad. Reward good behavior. Punish bad behavior. Monitor their activities. When they get old enough that they’re doing things in places you CANNOT monitor them, if you did it right, they’ll have developed high personal standards, and they poor choices they make will be minimized.