2009年7月8日水曜日

Problems regarding on SNS

These days many people especially students seem to use SNS such as Facebook and mixi. Although these web sights contribute to students' making new friends, people said there are some problems on it. For example some students try to contact someone through the sites,which might trigger kidnappings or more than that because students contact with strangers with little information about them. In this page, I'll think about what should be done to protect innnocent students.

Firstly, schools should make classes to teach students about the way to use SNS. Some students start using SNS just because everyone do it. Such students are vulnerable to be victim of troubles on SNS because SNS is sometimes difficult to use and students might be confused if they get message from strangers. Actually, when I begins to use facebook, I really confused to use it because I had to use it in English, which is not my mother tongue and I unconciously joind a community of "expose your skin" because I was invited from strangers. Though I stopped to join the community after I noticed that that community is very very strange, at the same time I though that students who use SNS can get similar problems. Therefore, Schools should take lecture or discussion about using SNS so that they don't get problems on SNS sites.  

Do parents have to make their parents stop to use SNS? I don't tink so because the more students are prohibited to use it, the more they want to use it and it's impossible to stop the use completely. Students have many oppotunities to connect to the internet and discussing about such online problem will be indispensable in near future. I'd like parents to limit the time to use SNS because it reduces risk of students being obsessed with SNS sites.

Thirdly, students thmselves need to concious that there are so many problems on facebook, mixi and something like that. It't the biggest prevention because it's meanigless for parents or schools to keep students from having trouble on SNS unless students themselves keep it in their mind. To make them notice, I think some commercials to show about the problems on SNS need to be casted because TV is very familiar with students and with commercials, many people will have oppotunities to see it effectively.

Though after all, protecting ourselves requires us to have coution about the problem, somethings should be done for students who uses SNS and to protect them.

1 件のコメント:

  1. Machiko, use the spellcheck service before inputting an entry. Good though it is, the occasional spell check error is a slight irritant!

    A related article that may hold interest is here:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul/09/online-privacy-identity-fraud

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