I decided to combine two topics previously discussed on the blog, those being pornography online and protecting youths on the cyber playground. Pornography is so easily accessed that it can even by auto-completed in the search box on Google's homepage. For parents it is probably a scary feeling to know that their child can find pornography just as easily as they can find answers to their homework online. This easily accessbile pornography can lead to corrput attitudes toward sex in children. They may now see sex as a recreational activity rather than an intimate/serious act.
Parents often use parental codes and blocks that restrict their children from certain websites but with each new technology invented there is only a matter of time until there is a way to get around it, or "hack" it.
Now with spam on MySpace that involves sex advertisements, a child doesn't necessarily have to be looking for porn, it can find them. I think more efforts to block spam should taken because it is easy to influence a young mind, and with all of the negativity online, the children may find more bad things to do on the internet than good.
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