Monitoring Children Internet Activity Issue 2022

PRIVACY ISSUES; THE MONITORING OF CHILDREN’S INTERNET ACTIVITY
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MONITORING CHILDREN INTERNET ACTIVITY
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PRIVACY ISSUES; THE MONITORING OF CHILDREN’S
INTERNET ACTIVITY CON Position
Use of the internet is not only popular within adults, business organizations, and the corporate
world, but it has also gained children attention to large extent. Children are using the internet for
various uses like being social through interacting with friends and family through social media
platforms. Moreover, on the positive aspect, children are also using the internet for searching
related to study material. There has been various research conducted over the children and
teenagers behaviour and attitude towards the use of the internet and social media (pewinternet).
Through the survey, it can be said that YouTube and Instagram were most popular among
teenagers (as presented below). Other than this, this survey also depicts that around ninety five
percent of children have smartphone access and the findings say that forty five percent of them
are generally online the whole time (pewinternet).

MONITORING CHILDREN INTERNET ACTIVITY
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Figure 1: (Source: (pewinternet)
Parents are a concern for their children, the reason being the chances of crime and cyberbullying
has also increased with an increase in the use of the internet among teenagers. Moreover, the
parents believe that they need to control the use of smart devices in order to keep their children
concentrate on their carrier. There have been various ways parents are willing to control their
children use of internet like screen timeout devices and applications in smartphones, where the
parents can check out the time children are spending over the phone and at which application
how much time is being spent. According to the parental controls, the key reasons that reflect
that the parents must monitor their children activities are that through parental control they could
monitor the search engines in order to check if their children are going in the right direction and
are not involved into any adult content. Other than this, students also are stuck into some games