The speed of rapid technology development and how young people learn how to use this technology continues to challenge the safety of children online. As children become acquainted with using information technology equipment, the risk of using the Internet is increasing. In this way, when you explore and discover ways to access websites with content according to age, they become more independent.
In general, the potential risks of children using the Internet include, but are not limited to, the following:
Excessive use of the Internet may harm outdoor social and physical activities. This is important for the health and social development of children.
Children who arrange and meet directly are in danger of injury, harassment, physical abuse and sexual abuse.
Exposure to illegal and harmful content such as pornography, various games, contact with unknown users
Receiving or posting inappropriate images without prior permission may be harmful to others. Infringement of copyrights, such as downloading music, movies, TV programs
Parental consent is required to enable access to materials that may be considered harmful to children without parental consent.
Children forge their age, claim to be adults only, and claim that they are older to access websites that contain inappropriate content on the site
Like risks and threats, education is an important factor in reducing its negative impact. The same is true of the risk of terrorists using the Internet. Especially for young Internet users, the possibility of this education is not fully utilized. Education has proved to be a better way to fight against bad content than blocks and filtering. A skilled mind is the best "filter". The development of education, media campaigns, and Internet literacy should be regarded as the most effective way to fight inappropriate content, such as crime, hatred, temptation to act of terrorism. The Internet also offers its own opportunity to promote tolerance and promote mutual understanding. Discussions on illegal use and criminal content should not forget this function of the Internet.
The Internet is an evolving medium that constantly provides new features. As a result, the Internet use of children is changing all the time. This requires vigilance on the related Internet risk behavior and the safe use of the Internet. This article summarizes a structured overview of the Internet's risks and how to promote secure Internet behavior. Based on long-term cross-sectional studies, the use of the Internet by infants has been studied. Focus is exposure to risk and content risk. Based on the analysis of the survey data of 10,000 children, the trends of (non) secure Internet use in 2005 - 2006, 2007 - 2008 and 2008 - 2009 were studied. Calculate insecure internet usage index (UIUI). The average result shows a very low level of dangerous Internet use. However, these average results hide the differences between subjects, and many children clearly reflect the risk of unsafe Internet use.
The extent to which teenagers are overworking the Internet is worth noting, and the abuse of the Internet during adolescence seems to be related to their mental health. The high risk of abuse of the Internet is related to long-term Internet access, suicidal ideation, depression, subjective stress, low sense of well being, substance abuse. In girls, as the use time of the Internet becomes longer, the IA risk increases markedly, so it is necessary to take more special preventive measures. Therefore, in order to prevent and manage issues related to excessive use of the Internet, it is necessary to implement and evaluate the strategy in response to this problem. Future research will require the development and implementation of a rehabilitation program for young people who overly use the Internet, such as camps and treatment schools, and we are going to verify the effectiveness of these programs.