Online threats for children: cyber bullying

Bullying online is one of the biggest threats we have ever faced in the digital world. So, parents want desperately want to snoop on a child’s mobile phones for their safety online. It happens when someone online uses abusive messages are sent text message or email to your child on a cell phone or social media platform by posting something like that. Apart from cyber bullying, it used to happen in playgrounds, bullying beyond the school gates and on the walk. However, bullying online is something like that cannot be under control because it is happening virtually on kids devices connected to the cyberspace.

Sexting:

Child obsession with the newly handed over mobile phone is a common thing. So, children love to explore things online having peer pressure they create social media profiles which parents can spy social messaging apps. Therefore, with the passage of time kids more likely to explore things often get used of texting at the end of the day they get started with something new watching peers online get involved into self –obscenity and as well as into sexting. So, sexting is something sending/receiving nudes in terms of photos, sexually explicit messages that are illegal for under the age of 18. It would lead children to cyber bullying, emotional distress and also become factor for online shaming of tween.

Use of dating apps

Young tweens these days are also using dating apps on their cell phones once they become a little tech –savvy. So, you can say it is perfect parenting blind spot that parents needs to aware of, otherwise teens may stalked by the stalkers, bullied by the bullies online and even become the victim of cyber predators.

Inappropriate content

Teens these days are more likely to get exposed to the inappropriate content via popups, undirected links and through plenty of sexually explicit advertisement on social media and on other websites. So, teens usually explore the new stuff online using their cell phone and more likely to become addicted to it.

Excessive time on screen

Obviously, when parents provide the first digital device to the children these days kids are expecting from the parents. It means before they got the first smartphone they already know things by the peers. So, once they have it, then they really spend huge time on the screen. So, medically it is very dangerous because excessive screen time may cause digital dementia.