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We have prepared this section of information to:
counter cyberbullying and cyberexploitation;
and to improve your children's safety when they're surfing the internet.
Do you feel like your children are permanently plugged in o their networks of online friends and that they’re exchanging a lot of information? You’re absolutely right. According to the Media-Awareness study Young Canadians in a Wired World, 66% of youth communicate with their friends by instant messaging and teens are the biggest users of social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace) and chat systems.
Girls between 15 and 17 especially love social networking sites, and 70% of them have created their own homepages, compared to only 54% of boys. On these pages, girls tell a lot about themselves, publishing excerpts from their diaries, for example, or photos of parties.
At the same time, new technologies related to the internet create a feeling of anonymity for young people, which makes the web a perfect platform for people who want to bully others or adults who want to exploit children or teenagers. In other words, people do things online that they would not necessarily do in “real life.”
Here are a few chat and social network definitions:
Chat (or clavardage to use the French word) allows people from all around the world to communicate in writing in real time online. Messages typed by one participant are automatically sent to the screens of the other participants. The written conversation appears simultaneously so the participants can quickly share their thoughts.
For more information about chatting:
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