Young people are putting themselves ahead of online dangers

The Internet environment is creating more and more changes among young people, more convenient for work, study, entertainment as well as more dangerous to them .

One of the biggest wishes of people is sharing and being shared. However, whatever, always exist two good and bad sides .

MySpace.com

In websites like MySpace.com, everyone can find for themselves other friends to share sports interests, concerns about social issues. However, a recent study said that the online environment itself is a dangerous environment for young people. Here, everyone can know the daily living habits of the people they care about, serving bad intentions .

Take Myspace.com, for example, which is a free website that provides services such as allowing users to create websites with personal information, photos and movies. This information will be disseminated or shared to the subject at the discretion of the owner. But, these same information will endanger young people. On Myspace.com, finding someone is also easy . Intentional people will be very easy to conduct "investigations" and attack interested people.

Connecticut police said that many girls were attacked by men they met on Myspace. Although Myspace has a lot of measures to prevent the dangers for customers, such as making warnings about fraud, limiting the age of participation to over 14, however, it seems to be impervious.

A few minors try to limit personal information such as hobbies, special interests, only for friends. But this is the 'living land' for those who intend to . Many girls from 12 to 16 years old tell police that the 'friends' they meet on Myspace are often older than 'reporters', opposite sex and . hundreds of other miscellaneous things. Especially, this is still a very good land for homosexuals.

In the past month, 14-year-old Judy Cajuste was found naked and died of strangulation in a garbage bag in Newark, New Jersey. Kayla Reed, 15, died in a canal in Livemore, California, not far from her home. Both of these deaths are still unclear, however, the investigations all started from Myspace.com. Previously, there were many similar cases.

Myspace is not the only case, there are thousands of such websites online. No government agency or organization is able to fully control it, especially in terms of the law to protect individual freedom.

Parents are very difficult to control their children's "travel" online. Hurdles are popular all over the world today. Just a little searching can be "comfortable" without fear of being controlled by relatives.

This situation is not uncommon in Vietnam, but due to many reasons, most of the victims are stifling their difficulties. Chatting chats seem to be useless, but, hidden behind are the dangers that can hardly be expected. Most victims are still underage. This is a pompous age, dreams of discovery and very easy to be fooled .

Technology life is not without benefits for people. However, as said, good and bad go hand in hand. We cannot prevent our children from exploring and entering the technology world, the Internet world. The best way is to be caring and educate to let our children know and refine the dangers. "Demanding people not by my own" is that.

TRAN HUY