It is not gain saying that the Internet is now our second world. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, almost every activity has become virtualized and spending a week offline could make you feel blind. The Internet is now so crucial a part of life that keeping children off such advancement could be detrimental to society. There are online platforms for education, easy communication, as well as entertainment that are important to the formative years of children.
However, with the great benefits come great risks. The International Telecommunications Union reports that 1 in 3 children globally has internet access at home, and according to UNICEF, every half second a child goes online for the first time around the world. In addition, statistics from NetSmartz (an online effort by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children), show that ninety-three per cent of kids aged 12 to 17 are online, and 75 per cent of the same age group have cell phones; seventy-three per cent of teens have social media profiles with almost half uploading pictures of themselves. It has never been this easy for children to be online. The days are unlike past years when with just a remote control parents can easily regulate what goes into the minds of their kids. Now, children can travel to hell and back exposing themselves to danger, consuming every kind of content, and interacting with any kind of person with just a phone connected to the internet.