SEE Why You Should Not Allow Your Kids Use Internet Social Media!

The internet is no doubt a blessing to the world, but we cannot deny its negative influences on peoples' way of life today, especially the negative influence of internet social media on kids, which is a major reason why parents must strive to prevent their little children from having unmonitored access to internet social media platforms.

In a recent development, a group by name: The Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) made an outcry on the negative influence of social media on kids.

Details below:

The Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), on Friday, decried the negative influence of the social media on children.

Bayo Banjo, the group’s president, said that negative use of the media could lead to higher wave of cybercrime among children.

He said that some websites were still publishing implicit contents that could corrupt children.

The NIG chief advised parents and schools to exercise requisite control on the use of social media by children.

“In the school setting, we now have ICT centre with cyber café, hence schools and parents should also beware of the disadvantages of these facilities,” he said.

“That is why schools should have teachers who will be in charge of this facility to guide and monitor what the students are doing. This is because there are certain pages and websites they should not be allowed to visit.”

He also called for caution in the use of other ICT tools to enhance learning.

Mr Banjo advised children to emulate their counterparts in developed countries who were making positive contributions to their society through the use of the social media.

“I am imploring the children to emulate their counterparts in advanced countries like Japan, Germany and the U.S. who are making positive contributions to their society,” he said. “Those are the kind of people they should be interacting with on the net, not those using the avenue for immoral things.”

Banjo advised students to use the social media positively to improve their knowledge.

The expert, however, decried government’s move to regulate the use of social media, stressing that such action would infringe the right of the users as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.