Kids and the Internet

It is truely amazing the fascination that kids have with the internet. Now-a-days, for fun kids would rather be inside surfing the internet than outside surfing waves. They would rather be in chat rooms playing games with other kids via screen and microphone than outside running around and playing. A lot of kids are more internet savy than their own parents. This generation of kids is the first generation to come of age using the internet. They have created their on virtual society.

Not only do kids play games and chat to people on the internet, they create profiles and blogs. Some go as far as to create a different person and profile, so as to mislead viewers. Many kids are secretive about their profiles to their parents and family memebers; they will keep things from them and try and avoid letting them see their profiles and blogs.

A lot of kids spend more time on the internet than doing anything else. Kids as young as 5-7 are using the internet and becoming "friends" with people on gaming websites. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are social networks that any aged person can create. Some kids put too much info up on these websites or spend too much of their time surfing around on these sites.

This YouTube video interviews a few different kids and asks them different things about their internet experiences. I think it's very interesting what the kids have to say. For example, the kids are asked what they would do without the internet and you get respsones like; they would be annoyed, they would be bored and they wouldnt have a way to socialize. I also think it's interesting that some of them dont have a time limit when playing and surfing on the internet. One boy even said he spends 4 hours a night on the internet.