Online Safety Education For Kids Should be The Highest Priority
posted in Main, Online Safety for Children |There is no doubt that everyone who even occasionally uses the Internet should be aware of its dark side. We all know the advantages of Internet, there are so many of them that it would be extremely hard to list them all. However it doesn’t mean that we should neglect the troubling facts that new scams and frauds are born almost every day. Internet fraud is popular among scam artists all over the world.
Certainly it’s a pity when adult is trapped in one of such scams and his or her financial stability is either at risk or completely destroyed. At least adults should know better, scam artists often play on people’s emotions and desires. If adult became a victim of a scam thanks to his or her own greed or lust, well it’s his/her fault. Read the Bible or the holy book of any other major religion and you’ll see that almost all of them describe the sins in similar ways. So if somebody tries to collect the lottery million dollar “winning” or is too lazy to use the basic rules for safe online banking, that’s his/her problem.
But when we’re talking about children, it’s a whole different story. When adults are looking at the scam offers, they know on the subconscious level that something is not right. The voice of their experience warns them about possible trouble. Whether they listen to this inner sense or not, it’s their choice.
Children don’t have any substantial experience yet in dealing with real life situations. Hence it’s our responsibility as adults to make sure kids know about possible traps that they can encounter online.
