Internet Safety

Internet safety is very important especially in protecting the youth of today. There are so many things out there that can tempt or hurt youth if the youth are not careful from staying away from them. Certainly there must be a balance between how to use the internet in situations like privacy, safety, security, self representation, real vs. cyberspace, and cyberbullying. A balance between each of these categories will allow people to use their agency on what to do with the internet.
As an educator I should teach students to be safe with the internet in not only class activities, homework, but also in their personal social networks and internet use. While they are young is the best time to teach them because this will allow them to gain a firm foundation of what to do.
Privacy is very important with using the internet because once information about yourself or someone else gets out everyone will know and the internet has all kinds of people who use it and will see it. It is very important to be scarce with the information that you provide on the internet.
The most important thing to do is to be very smart in giving info about yourself and others because the internet is something that anyone can find information on. The ensign provides some very important points of what to do with the internet and some of the points that I find to be important are: avoid specifics, selectively post pictures, be positive, think before you post, and respect others work.
The internet lesson that I gave went very well. I was not only able to instruct the person I was giving the lesson too, but I was also able to remind and teach myself about the important points of internet safety. I think the highlight of my talk was that the person that I was teaching was able to follow the spirit while using the internet because while I was given information and instruction of internet safety I also added in counsel form the leaders of the church.