The direct response to the documentary Growing Up Online is that most people agree with the video. Although, nowadays, it doesn’t tell people anything they don’t already know. We’ve had all of this information drilled into our heads for a long time.
Young adults know to watch for internet predators and monitor the sites their on. They know not to talk to strangers and to keep their eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary.
People also say a lot of things on the Internet that they wouldn’t say to someone’s face. There’s just as much controversy and tension over the Internet as there is when two people fight or argue face to face.
Most parents should also realize that kids can (hopefully) hold their own and decide for themselves what they can/cannot do. No parent should run their child’s life simply because they are on the Internet.
As stated, most kids/young adults know better than to mess with shady things online, although there are probably a few that have/will. Parents might have to just get over the fact that their kid has done something wrong and try and fix it.
This is a video entitled “Everyone Knows Sarah,” and it shows what can happen if you post inappropriate things online.
Some people, like Jaun Decvis, a fellow co-worker at PBS, where the video was presented from, was appaled with it. To an extent, I can agree with him. Some people could think that the video was about how to learn to use the Internet and what social media is about and instead, it was just another video that rehashed all of the “hot topics” of the Internet.
His video can be seen here:
A lot of people are pretty ridiculous on the Internet. They don’t have a sense of what is wrong and what is right so they just do whatever they feel like.
If people would be smarter and think for themselves, we wouldn’t have half the problems that we do on the Internet. People would learn that they can’t say things that hurt other people, that you can’t degrade someone no matter how mad or upset with someone you are. It’s not the correct way of doing things, especially over the Internet where the other person/people can’t even see your face. It’s not fair to them.
This video is an interview with one of the producers of the video Growing Up Online, in which she explains why the video is made and why they chose to make it the way they did:
This video shows the Internet in a different limelight, where it’s bad for a person that’s using it. Entitled “Online Child Safety- The Truth Behind the Screen,” it tells just how wrong the Internet can be for a person that’s naïve enough to believe some of the things that are happening (like meeting a guy and believing he’s the same guy as in the picture on his profile page)
Overall, people have different views of the documentary Growing Up Online. Some people believe that it did a good job of saying what it needed to say and informing people, specifically younger people, what can happen by doing different things online, be it good or bad.
Other people that have seen the video aren’t too keen on it because they think it was going to be about something totally different and instead ended up, to put it bluntly, beating a dead horse with a stick.
People know how wrong the Internet can be and what can happen to a person that lets slip one thing that only one other person is supposed to know, how it can be turned against them and used for wrong intentions.
Katy Robbins 