With the easier and affordable access to the internet everyone feels content in creating content. To create content one needs to watch a lot of content. Content is indeed aplenty on the internet – vulgar content even the more. A lot of western countries have been affected to the extent that they fixed a certain age for baseline social media usage. Some countries have marked 14 years as legal age for the access to social media and while others are thinking of 16. Watching vulgar content on the internet can have devastating effects on the psyche of a child and may deviate him from his chosen careerist goal.
The Internet shows you numerous shortcuts to earn money. While preteens are increasingly dependent on the pocket money given by the parents the internet comes as an ephemeral breeze of financial independence. While this financial independence is the end goal, achieving it without any effects does not create the kind of resistance one would expect from these preteens once they grow up as mature individuals. As compared to their career oriented or business oriented friends who in fact have to work hard to climb the stairs of success these kids have it too easy. Money, fame, lavish parties, hipster cars, branded clothes and what not. But the same internet sensations buckle under pressure when things go awry or money stops coming. It is here that their careerists’ friends score higher in life , a step by step climb of the corporate ladder or the ladder of their private business enterprises. Sometimes instant fame is the worst thing that can happen to an individual – it leaves a huge vacuum in the overall personality, a kind of vacuum which is later filled with massive guilt.
Some people are so foolish that they earn through their infant babies and toddlers by posting videos of their growing up on the internet. This is the worst thing a greedy parent can do to his child. Companies selling toys and gadgets meant for children quickly ask these parents to be their sponsors. Sooner we see our own kids asking us for the same set of toys.
In the current age it has become increasingly important to keep a close eye on what our children are watching on the internet. There is plenty of vulgar content out there which has the potential to ruin a beautiful career and a beautiful life. A limited, guided usage of the internet is useful for preteens but an unguided, unbridled usage of the internet can have dire consequences.
