I recently read an article that was on cyber-bulling and internet security, and how kids are becoming less protected online. Kids as young as 10 years old are chatting with complete strangers and can be talking to anybody with a computer. The article says, "many kids find it easier to chat with someone and bully them, rather than talk to them face to face." I think this means that kids have the guts to do things online they could never do in person. Over a computer screen, lies are a lot easier to be told.
Sharing pictures can that should be private is also a problem too, with kids leaving their facebooks open for friends to go on. Many people can also post things anonymously, and as it says in the article, "most people who cyberbully do it anonymously, and that can hurt the person being bullied even more. The fact you are being bullied is bad, but not knowing who it is can be even worse." I think in our age of technology it is so easy to chat people and even get personal information it is very easy for people to be bullied.
Cyber-bulling has spread to a wider age group too. Kids as young as nine and ten often say mean comments to each other online with worry they will get in trouble. As they grow up they will probably still continue to cyberbully because they did not get in trouble when they were younger. I think that kids so young cyberbully and act mean is really bad, and must be stopped.
My whole opinion on the article is that there should be more safety settings and more ways to keep your computer private. I know several websites such as Omegle, and ask.fm where people are allowed to chat and ask people questions without knowing at all who they are. You might be chatting with someone thinking they are a 13 year old girl when they are really a creepy old man halfway across the world. In real life that would be seen as creepy and not right, so why should it be okay online?
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