Risks on the internet

Unsuitable contents

Between online betting, drug or weapon sales, torrent sites offering illegal downloading, there are many places on the internet that are not made for kids.
Historically, it is the maturity of online video technologies that has allowed the porn industry to rush into a huge new market and flood the web with adult sites.

Even today, porn sites are multiplying like hotcakes. Publishers try at all costs to bring visitors to their site, not hesitating to widely disseminate explicit advertisements and deliberately misleading promises.
At least 8 out of 10 children between the ages of 11 and 13 have seen pornography on the Internet.

Screens & health

You, children can sometimes stay awake all night in front of your screens, read forums, watch video or thoroughly on a video game. These waking nights leave traces the next day and the accumulated fatigue impairs concentration and has a direct impact on the studies. Sitting without moving for hours in front of the computer brings nothing in terms of a healthy lifestyle. It is at the moment of growth that a regular sport practice contributes to muscle development and helps you acquire a good physical condition for your future as an adult.

Bad dating online

E-mails, instant messaging, social networks are extremely practical means of communication, to exchange with friends or family. But it is also an open door for people with dangerous intentions. A young person with a Skype account filled in or a public Facebook profile is exposed to contacts with unknown people, who could not approach him otherwise in everyday life.

The methods used by pedophiles often show insidious approaches, with long periods of dialogue via instant messengers to create a climate of trust (it is called trusting, or grooming). Often the ultimate goal is to organize a physical encounter.

Online videos

There are often teen-watching topics on the web that highlight dangerous physical prowess in online videos.  For example, tips on potentially dangerous schemes for young people in trend blogs or incentives to publish compromising self-portraits ….

At the age of pre-adolescence it is normal to have, like his elders, the will to be accepted by a group. The marketing of the advertisers and the training of crowd participate in the diffusion and the integration of messages. which are not always adapted to the reader.

A young person without the necessary perspective will take the first degree a video of insults between famous rappers and will try to imitate them, or will starve to follow a trend of unrealistic beauty. Keep the distance and do not always take inspiration from what is often “a bad example”.

Propaganda on the Internet

The Internet has become the communication tool par excellence all over the world, and this international reach, combined with the impossibility of monitoring all communications, has made it the tool of choice that today allows extremists to renew old ones. hatred, raise funds and recruit members.

The quantity and sophistication of extremist websites has grown at the same pace as the expansion of the internet. It is not always easy to discern when hate content posted on the Internet goes from offensive to outright illegal.

The border is often thin between freedom of expression and hate speech. Moreover, the definition of what is acceptable or not to express and diffuse varies from one country to another. On the Internet, the line is even thinner, and a hateful comment posted legally in a country can be considered illegal in countries where the criteria are more stringent.