Brandon Martinez
Computer Science
12/03/14
Overtime technology has been becoming more updated and has grown tremulously very fast over the years. Within the document it explains how throughout the Internet on many sites teens are allowed the opportunity to live and have several personas that would do not go along with who they really are. They purposely have different personas compared to their real life because they know that if indeed the parents were aware of what they did on the Internet the parents would no longer grant them access to it.
Having children/teens grow up on the Internet or grow up with access to such undated technology they don't all use it for the same reasons, although some may use it similar in some ways not every single person out there will use the Internet for. The exact same thing. For some kids will use their alternate personas to try and sprit in with others and have friends, in the second story it tells a story of a girl names Jessica who seemed to be depressed and felt very out of place. She began to live the life of a goth girl online and seen that she had began to gain friends. Like mentioned before On how parents would not like having their children be someone else in the Internet, Jessica also kept her secret identity from her parents because she knew they would also be very judge mental. This alternate identity did not last long once one of Jessica's teachers saw an explicit picture of her on the Internet, she than called her parents and that was the end of Jessica's gothic persona. This is a problem because when kids are at school most of the time they're depressed and feel out of place when kids around them downgrade them and bully them. The Internet is then a door for those who get bullied to see how it is to be popular and like able.
This ties in with the problem of having Internet safety and warning kids about how to use the internet appropriately because a big problem with it now of days goes along with how Jessica got caught. Explicit photos and content on the Internet is a major problem because in generations today, more and more kids think it's cool, funny, and use it as revenge to post things on the Internet of others. For example the Internet has websites where you can be an anonymous user and be able to use it for explicit reasons. They also have apps for such things such as snapchat, snapchat you can choose a username were it doesn't necessarily have to be associated with your real name and for some they think that they can send things that are inappropriate because for snapchat you can only view a photo for a set amount of seconds. But, smart phones are out smarting the use of snapchat because phones give you the option to screen shot things, this was also backfired when snapchat enabled a feature where you can see who screen shots your pictures. This all can be prevented if we teach children to not take such photos because once it's on the Internet it's almost nearly impossible to get it off.
Overall the main purpose of the documentary was to inform the viewers that growing up online could potentially ruin reputations and friendships. It can also take lives through cyber bulling were kids bully over the Internet leaving others vulnerable. This documentary is a little old and already in the generation today you can see the advancements made it can either get better or worse in the future.
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