Growing up online

 Things That Did Not Surprise You:

1. People get messages regarding sexual things online. 
2. People block people that are creeps. 
3. There are pages online that teach people how to kill themselves.
4. There are people online that motivate others to kill themselves.
5. Kids not wanting to give their parents their passwords. 
6. Communities in which there are parents that are involved in their kids lives and have created a community that is safe for them .
7. Sexual predators online looking at pictures of kids. 
8. Parents do not know what their kids are up to.
9. Internet has promoted cheating.
10. Bullying is amplified by the internet. 
11. Bullying never ends if there is internet present at the home. 
12. It is easier to fight online.
13. You do not know who is looking at all of your things online. 
14. There is many of people that get anonymous messages. 
15. You can communicate with anybody you want and see, and you can leave them mean messages anonymously or by your own account.
16. Teens asking other teens for dirty pictures of themselves.

Things That Did Surprise Me:

1. The parent of the kid that instigated the death of the other was not concerned for the well being of the child. 
2. 1 in 7 kids get a sexual solicitation. 
3. Internet has created the biggest gap of ages since the age of Rock. 
4. Parents did not obligate their kids to give them the password.
5. Parents get mad at children by misinterpretations of many situations.
6. There are sites that get to know you just to tell you the best way to kill yourself that matches your personality. 
7. The analogy that sharing things on the internet is like letting people into your house. 
8. The new threat on the internet is not sexual predators but bullies and the sharing of unwanted photos. 
9. That kids know when to turn down a sexual predator, that they know what is best for them and know how to not get harmed. 
10. Why kids do not give their parents their passwords if it is for their own protection. 
11. That kids actually admitted to knowing the son that committed suicide when being asked by the father knowing that it was the father. 
12. That the father of the same kid did not look to blame anyone even when wanting to. 
13. The fact that children do lots of dangerous things online but do many more in real life. 
14. How little people knew back then about the internet situation. 
15. How much everything has changed since 2008. 
16. How much internet awareness campaigns exist in today's world. 

Things That Have Changed Since The Video Was Made

1. MySpace is not massively used, the emphasis has changed to Facebook. 
2. Parents are now more aware of the risks and implications of the internet. 
3. Parents now are more involved in the social lives of their children online. 
4. Parents know how to monitor their children's activity. 
5. Lots of social networks are aware of the ongoing problems and have made it easier for people to report and block people. 
6. People are more careful about what they share online. 
7. Now you can access the internet easily through the use of phones. 
8. There are many places in the modern world in which there is free Wi-Fi.
9. Schools take action in order to stop cyber bullying. 
10. The interests in the internet has changed so that it is not a great social network but towards movies and entertainment. 
11. There are many more sites now to know how to kill yourself but there are also many more forums and sites that offer help to people with these problems. 
12. Anything that you want to find in the world you can find on the internet, anybody with any interests can find things that they like and speak with people that have common interests. 
13. There are now many more pages that promote anonymous messaging now a days. 
14. There are many more resources for educative purposes online. 
15. Online there are many tools and applications that can help many problems and help schools be more interactive with technology. 
16.  Schools and parents are more involved in the technological world and know how to intervene in a child's life and know how to solve any problem that might present itself. 

Which topic in this video did you most strongly identify with and why?