Teach Your Teen to Socialize Safely Online

It isn’t easy to compete with your kid’s computer. She may consider Facebook her BFF, but it can’t give her love and guidance. You can. Try these tips to guide your teen’s life online:

· Set (and enforce) reasonable rules and restrictions on your teen’s use of online technology. For example, don’t allow her to use her laptop computer in her bedroom, out of your sight and supervision. Just knowing you might walk by at any time may motivate her to be more mindful of the house rules.

· Connect with your kid on Facebook or MySpace. If she’s not be crazy about this idea, point out that it could be a fun way to share photos, posts, and memories with cousins, grandparents, and other relatives.

· Be proactive.Educate your teen about the risks of social networking and how to avoid them. From knowing what to do if she’s bullied online, or using privacy settings for her online profile, teach your teen to protect herself online.

· Coach your teen to use caution and common sense online. Remind her to think twice before posting comments, photos, or videos – all of which add to (or detract from) her reputation.

· Balance her online social life with face-to-face interaction.Encourage her to spend “face time” with friends, and keep family relationships strong by spending quality time together – and by simply making yourself available to listen and talk. Don’t allow her to play with her smart phone at the dinner table; instead, draw her into the conversation and do your best to keep her engaged.

Social Communications in the Information Society: pros and cons (3)

Informational society - a society in which the process of computerization gives people access to reliable sources of information, saving them from routine work, ensures a high level of automation. As the authors believe the new concept, "... the production of information product, not a product of the material will be the driving force behind the formation and development of society"

We should highlighted some from big amount of benefits of social communication in the information society:

- To learn the news has become very simple and fast. Less than an hour all-important news can fly around the world.

- Children from an early age, since 5 years old join to the Information Society, and the children are our future.

- First and foremost, it all depends on the consumer. He can filter the information to study the different sources of information and to form his own point of views, which will not depend on the "information elite"

- Informational society gives people the opportunity to learn the necessary information from a variety of sources and in a minimum time.

-For a free orientation in the information flow, person has information culture as a component of general culture. Information related to the culture of the social nature of man. It is the product of a variety of creative abilities and it is manifested in the following aspects:

* Ability to work with different types of information;

* Ownership of the basics of analytical processing of information;

* The ability to present the information in a clear form and the ability to use it effectively;

* Ability to use computer information technology the basic components of which are numerous software products;

* The ability to find relevant information from different sources;

* Specific skills on use of means of technical devices from the PC and phone networks.

To summarize mentioned above I must say that:

The main features of the information society are:

- the growing role of information and knowledge in life of the society;

- increase in the number of people employed in information technology, communications and production of information products and services, increase their share in gross domestic product;

- the growth of information and the role of information technology in social and economic relations;

- a global information space that provides (a) effective information interaction of people, (b) their access to global information resources and (c) meet their needs for information products and services.

From the perspective of modern science, information society, economic development, social change, and the quality of life depend on scientific knowledge and method of operation information, characterized by the following features:

- Technology - dissemination of information technologies in public life (in production facilities, education and in everyday life);

- Social - information causes changes in quality of life emerging "information awareness" information culture in the broad and free access to information;

- Economic - is the leading information resource economics;

- Political - freedom to receive and impart information affects the political process change is reflected in the increase in participation and consensus between different classes and social strata;

- Cultural - recognition of the cultural value of information contributing to the value of information in the interests of the individual and society as a whole

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 736