Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn't give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.