Digital safety and kids’s security in digital environments evolve as essential questions regarding many households. As winter break approaches in colleges throughout Türkiye, the president of a analysis heart from Türkiye’s capital Ankara warned dad and mom about points associated to on-line violence and extreme use of tablets and computer systems.
The president of the Social Media and Digital Security Education Research Center (SODİMER) and Türkiye Metaverse Platform professor Dr. Levent Eraslan stated that in the course of the upcoming semester break, households ought to gauge the digital footprints of their youngsters.
The professor stated that as per his observations, two out of three youngsters present a violent tendency due to video games which can be dangerous, warning that households ought to conscious of this drawback. He additionally harassed upon the significance of elevating consciousness concerning the digital atmosphere basically.
Since youngsters spend plenty of time indoors in entrance of tablets and screens taking part in video games that procreate violence, particularly throughout their faculty breaks. These youngsters then internalize this and turn out to be desensitized to violence, and specific violent behaviors in actual life, Eraslan warned.
“Incidents that include expressions of killing, such as ‘headshot,’ have increased a lot lately. That’s why parents should be heedful of this. They should be aware that sometimes their kids play games with a bunch of strangers. Therefore, their personal information can be at stake in what we call social engineering which may victimize their children in the future,” he defined.
Saying that it’s not attainable to ban their youngsters’s entry to the digital world fully, the professor stated that “We operate the principle of ‘Do not prohibit, but use it carefully.'”
For instance, watching varied movies for the kid’s data acquisition is sort of helpful, Eraslan stated, including that studying new languages can also be helpful for a kid. But some harmful on-line video games and social media traits, generally known as ‘challenges’, might result in detrimental penalties and thus must be monitored by dad and mom recurrently.
“Mothers and fathers need to be very sensitive when there are some strange behavior patterns displayed by their children. They should follow the digital footprints of their children, without judging, criticizing or banning them,” he emphasised.
“Please, let’s follow the digital footprints of our children. Let’s see what they do. It is not enough to give them the latest models of phones and tablets. There is a dark side to this digital media. It is necessary to raise awareness so that they do not fall victim to our negligence,” Eraslan urged.
