In this modern age people, especially digital natives need to monitor their activity on the internet and what they do online. There have been incidents where a person will share a small amount of information with a company online and agree to a statement that will in turn allow that company to share the person's information with other companies related to the person's interests based on their activity online. People don't understand that whatever they do online can be tracked and seen at a later time.
Parents have been trying to monitor their children’s activity on the internet, which is somewhat a good thing because children need to know the dangers of internet stalkers. There are different programs or websites out there that parents use to find out what their children are doing. When the kids begin to grow older and want more privacy they always find a way around the tracking site. The best method of keeping your children from exposing too much information on the internet or not visiting sites that are inappropriate is to show them the risks that they are taking. To actually properly inform your children about the real dangers of the internet and all of the identity theft that goes on in this day of age would truly help keep kids and teenagers safe.
With this being said, the parents themselves require becoming more technically savvy so they can instruct their children the correct way to keep important information off the internet. I know that my mom doesn’t have any real computer skills other than filling out an excel sheet or writing an e-mail to an old pen pal, but she has taught me and my brothers to use common sense on the internet and to make sure to read everything before clicking the continue button and to ask ourselves if we would want our future boss or girlfriends parents to see what we are posting on facebook or any social network of the sort.
Basically the big problem with digital natives not knowing about the dangers of sharing information online isn’t just their own fault, but their parents and teachers who should be the ones teaching them proper procedures for their safety.
I like how you used your own personal experience with your mom to get your point across. I would also disagree with you slightly because I feel that it is not all the parents fault and that the Digital Natives themselves have most control over their own privacy.
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