Safer Internet Day. Decalogue for young sailors – The Republic

Always connected to the network, employees from a WhatsApp beep (even at night, due to the” vamping ” ), attending porn sites but do not know what cyberbullying. Like every year, on the occasion of Safer Internet Day Telefono Azzurro Doxakids commissioned research that redraws The profile of the new generations and their relationship with technology, highlighting the dangers of this liaison d’amour. data that this year, in addition, also investigating the habits of parents : 68% of them communicate with their children via WhatsApp, stigmatize researchers. What’s wrong? Who said there is a “right” way to communicate with teenagers and kids in general? What is serious, though, is that 3 out of 4 parents do not know the sexting (exchange of sexually explicit messages or images of sex), that allow their children to get regular online purchases (more than 2 of 3, 38%, 63% of parents with paper and 22% even with its own), and they do not know that as many as 73% of them browse “off course” attending “constantly” pornographic websites (4 boys interviewed out of 5). Still: 1 boy of 2 (48%) claims to have joined Facebook before age 13, or as soon as they reach the minimum age allowed by the social network, while 71% is given a smartphone already 11 years, before of house keys , arriving generally around 12. Needless, therefore, wrong to stigmatize the use / abuse of smartphones and the web, unless you engage all to teach children the rules of safe navigation and even a little ‘common sense, when it comes to eating habits, use of resources and management of their image on the company.

the operators of Heart and words Onlus, in the field to achieve the “Generations project connected “ on the mandate of the Ministry of Education, have produced a handbook of few, simple rules based on the most frequently asked questions received by the students during their work in secondary schools. Print them, divulgatele, and post them on the bulletin board (company) of your children:

tHE RULES oF GOOD INTERNAUTA
1) Each social network fixed in its rules a minimum age for the authoring profiles: for example in 2006 Facebook opened access to children aged 13 years and over (https://it-it-facebook.com/safety). Administration of the site reserves the cancellation of the account if it is found (including by signaling) the declared age falsehoods.
2) For greater safety it is better to avoid publishing your home address, school, work and the various private addresses. However, if you decide to do, take a few extra minutes to set filters for privacy on your company profile and make sure that your personal information is thus only visible to people with which are in contact, or to some of them … you choose!
3) There is a difference between friends and contacts: as the main square of your city you will not become a friend of all passersby, so in the virtual marketplace will not have to collect contacts. Have thousands of friends on Facebook does not guarantee you the popularity: Include only those who know the person with whom you can keep in touch and share experiences, when you have the chance to have them close.
4) Expressing feelings and opinions is a right of all valid also in the life of every day: also on social networks need to be careful not to offend others, the more that your posts and your comments may be copied and circulated on bulletin boards others. Also remember that you do not always disclose the status mood of the moment, which can often be the passenger, because it can affect the image that others have of you.
5) Use social networks to tell better than you . Through videos and photographs that you spread and that can remain forever etched in the network and condition the opinion that people have of you. Maintain the confidentiality of your privacy and remember to always ask those who rebuke with photos and videos permission to publish and by tag connection.
6) In a matter of seconds with a click you can view a distant friend and hear his voice. If you use this tool with a contact you do not know in person, make sure first of his identity and request to simultaneously switch on the device: it is not good to talk to someone who does not look at you in the eye! Finally, remember that the other side of the screen could be a recording that could be disclosed on the network was activated.
7) It is said that behind every account and a nickname, there is just the person you think you interact. for this, keep them for yourself and for your friends personal information and images and if you want to meet live someone you’ve only known on the web is organizing the day and find myself in a public place, and
> made accompanied by one or more trusted friends.
8) it is not necessary to always know where you are and at all: active geolocation only if you are using a map or a road directory, or when you want to share an experience that you are living with a group of friends (avoid doing so if you are alone!). You can set to your liking geographic coordinates on the camera and on all the app on your mobile phone.
9) Anyone who type in your name on a search engine will find in the top results for your social pages: a profile with its content, especially if it is open to the public, becomes your business card. Friends, relatives, teachers, (future) employers and colleagues, but also strangers, can access your world digital. Be smart: enrich your social profiles with the best aspects of your personality; insults, defamation, embarrassing images can affect your online reputation! Google Alerts: to avoid unwanted surprises and protect themselves against identity theft, better to set up a Google Alert with your name and surname, as well as monitor the web what it says about you (https://www.google.it/alerts).
10) For trade on the web (chat, e-mail, post on the bulletin board) apply the same principles of respect and education applied in everyday life. a few examples.
• Ponder well your answers and your messages: let go to anger when you are not facing each other and you can not resolve a dispute immediately, can jeopardize a relationship, as well as its digital image. If you really want to fight on the network, you resort to the private messaging and avoids the wall!
• On fanpage, groups, blogs, always respect the opinions of others, especially when treated sensitive topics, such as politics, religion, ethics, etc.
• Poni attention to all aspects of your e-mail so you get the message correctly: fill in the subject field and anticipate what you want to say, remember to sign at its end, contain the size text and file attachments to avoid overloading the receiver’s mailbox. To transmit “heavy” documents and images, you can in fact use download services available on the net for free.
• Type uppercase E-mail is equivalent to scream in someone’s face: use it with moderation!
• Avoid the message chains: they can disturb the digital quiet!