Internet stupidity

Internet can be a source of great learning and amazing information mine. The different kind of social networks have changed the way we live for sure. However, I am still a little traditional when it comes to letting the kids use the internet. I was recently trying to find some answers for a trivia, and I came across yahoo answers. I was shocked to find what kind of question someone had put up on yahoo’s platform. Some bloke had posted how do I quickly fall ill and sick? and people were responding with answers like eat rotten food or someone said something about keeping garlic pressed under the arm and one will definitely fall ill 2-3 hours after that. How disgusting is that. I do not mean that just because one kid misused it everyone will, but yes some others will definitely be tempted.

I am getting a strong feeling that some agency must be there on the websites which monitors this kind of behavior. But the best censorship for such instances can come only from home and parents or soe kind of responsible adult supervising the cyber behavior. Before we let our children use powerful tool as internet we must educate them against such maneuvers.

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