Be Careful on the Internet
Parents of boys at a Sydney private school have been urged to monitor their sons' use of social networking website,with a warning any mistakes made in teenage years could be permanently recorded on the Internet and catch up with them later in life.
The headmaster,Timothy Wright,wrote to parents on Thursday, (explain)that younger boys were too immature to fully understand the possible consequences of disclosing private information on social networking sites. "We now know that those parts of the brain deal with decision-making are still developing in a man in his 20s. 'he said. ‘But mistakes (commit)at fifteen may be still accessible to an employer ten years later.
Modern technology means that a careless word, an ill-willed comment or an inappropriate photograph, are on permanent record and freely available to has access. Stupidities that (forget) immediately before now last, spread and damage in ways unknown before this decade.
Dr Wright said that words spoken in the playground could be more easily forgotten, those captured on the Internet or on mobile phone text messages could have far more lasting and more hurtful consequences.
He urged parents to set ground rules for use of mobile phones and the Internet and in particular to set boundaries on taking and sending images that be used to bully others. "Parents who are paying for the Internet service have an unquestionable right ( insist) they are a friend on social networking websites. I would certainly insist on this at least the end of 16 if not later. 'he wrote.