Youth Ministry Resources: What most parents don’t realize is that, if left unattended, the Internet can be a vast space of illegal and dangerous activity, especially for junior high and high school students.
Youth Ministry Resources:When YouTube was created, it was seen as an online community for information, talent and entertainment. However, a large amount of misuse has come to their site in the form of pornographic and violent content.
Youth Group Lessons: An Australian 17-year-old recently got into trouble with the law, he arrested and was released on bail with the following conditions: no Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
For many teenagers their online world is their refuge. It’s a place where they can create an alternate identity and freely and openly share themselves with trusted friends. Because of this, more and more parents are snooping around online and looking for their.
The desire to be thin is not a new phenomenon. Since the beginning of time, young girls and women have been weight-obsessed, striving for the “perfect” figure that will give them a greater sense of self-worth, and the Internet, has only added fuel to the fire.
Perhaps one of the greatest online security measures that has been pounded into the heads of teenagers is the importance of password safety. Teenagers are advised against sharing passwords with boyfriends or girlfriends as a way to show commitment.
In case you haven’t realized it yet, that is, in case you’ve been living in a dark tunnel with no access to any kind of media whatsoever, then you know that anything you post online is permanent. Every picture is there for eternity.
No one ever imagined the television set declining in importance but recent data from the Nielsen group, a company that follows media use, is showing that younger Americans are slowly moving away from the tube.