Internet Dangers

Recently there has been a news story abut a young girl, only eleven, receiving death threats for posts she has made on the internet. This goes to show that even in an age where children seem to be miniature adults they are not. They still need monitoring in their day to day lives and protection from those who might physically or emotionally harm them. I am not blaming the parents for this young girl being threatened, that is on those cruel enough to do so. What I am saying is that maybe internet access shouldn’t be allowed or at least extremely limited to a child so young. After all the world wide web is a very dangerous place. There are perverts, cyber bullies and so many other that can do harm to a person who is just starting to find who they truly are in this world. Perhaps our society should take a step back to see if the internet might be doing more harm than good to our youth in this generation. The internet isn’t as safe as we’d all like it to be so maybe we should keep children off of it as much as possible, save for homework (supervision necessary) and get them outside playing, laughing, and being children for a change.