Growing up online

• Things that did NOT surprised me:

1. Kids not knowing that the internet can be dangerous for them
2. Kids using the internet for social websites like club penguin or MySpace
3. Parental controls
4. Kids using their phones and computer all the time
5. People using social websites to learn everything about everyone
6. People using social websites to insult and cyber bullying people
7. People having relationships over websites
8. People sending pictures through the internet
9. The parents making the girl deleting every picture
10. Kids not knowing that it is dangerous just because they are in their house
11. Stalkers and internet predators
12. Kids hiding their screens to parents
13. Kids thinking they know how to be safe, you can have an idea but they don't know everything
14. People deleting someone they don't know
15. A mom thinking just because there was alcohol in a concert, parents thinking their kids automatically had consumed alcohol 
16. People feeling lonely and with suicide thought over cyberbullying

• Things that DID surprised me

1. Kids creating videos, because they are creating videos of their faces so everyone can see it 
2. Parents knowing what the kids can do in the internet but they don't stop it
3. People competing in social websites on who had more friends, this is crazy, why would you do that. Those websites are for YOUR friends not people you don't know
4. People having the relationship online, but not talking face to face, that's called not being real
5. A girl being a Goth model with a secret identity and the parents not knowing anything of it, it is scary to see kids act like something completely different
6. The parent making the girl deleting every picture of her but not knowing that once something is in the internet, it will never be completely erased, people could still see the pictures and have them in their phones and computers
7. In the internet there a re no secrets, someone will always be able to see what you upload, it is scary because even thought you try to be safe and you are educated, you are still in danger
8. A mother asking for her kids passwords of social websites, the kids will never give the password it is something personal
9. The teacher talking about sexual harassment over the internet, and saying it is not that bad, they are still being asked for pictures or other things, it is still bad enough
10. A girl being "herself" with other people having the same problems, she felt good talking to other strange people about everything 
11. Forums and websites talking about problems and sharing "helps" for other people with the same problems.
12. A girl suffering of an eating disorder and sharing her problems with people all over the world, but not to her parents, it can be hard to talk about this, but it isn't better to talk about it to other strange people
13. A kid being bullied, then asked his parents to teach him to protect himself but then killed himself, I find bullying disgusting and for it to get to a level of suicide is messed up
14. A girl flirting with the kid that committed suicide, but then just saying it was a joke, I like to messed up with kids like you, why would a girl do that? Just leave him alone
15. A file that the dad found about websites and pages that helped them know how to suicide, it was Ryan and the other kid

• Things that have changed about technology

1. Most popular website: MySpace and Facebook, MySpace is not popular anymore