Children having access to the internet

tags:: #privacy #pseudonyms #internet-culture projects::

“Almost instantaneously there was a generational gap created between most older and younger people in how this new technology was understood and utilized, and we’re still seeing that ongoing effect in 2018.” (Allebach, 2020, p. 1)

Children have access to information that they otherwise should not have. They also have the ability to hide their age using pseudonyms, allowing them to commucate with an older crowd without being shunned for their age, which can be bad. Would you want your 12 year old communicating with a 30 something on 4chan? probably not.