kimi's reflection on the usage of social network sites

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This news stated that a father-of-four, Hywel Dance, has set up a safer social networking site named ‘South Wales Kids’ worked by the school and youth clubs in United Kingdom last year for children who are under 18. He established this website because he was inspired by his son when seeing him use the Facebook. He was afraid that the children would be cheated by people who use fake identities on the Internet. This website received great feedbacks form both the users and parents. It had become popular among children and schools. The site has already got 656 members and is planning to promote this site across the United Kingdom by using the website name, ‘Great British Kids’.

The safety of using the social network sites have been a tough question among the parents. They think that people on the Internet usually use the imitated identities with hidden purposes. Thus, the parents are afraid that their children will be tricked by these villains. In my point of view, I think that Mr. Dance set up this website can provide a relatively safer social network site for children to navigate. This is because this website required joined schools’ verification of the users. The Parents and schools can be more relieved if their children use the ‘South Wales Kids’ instead of other social network sites. It has been long suggested mothers bear the responsibility as the moral guardian over children surfers, but I am convinced that fathers should also perform to their part of duty. The parents should teach their children not to lie on the Internet and do not trust the strangers easily. Not only the bad-manner strangers are blamed for the poor social network safety, parents should also share the responsibilities to teach the correct usage by the children over the sites.