The Internet Essay

        Many people use the internet for a lot of different reasons. There are teens that use the internet for both academics and social reasons. I think that is mostly what every teen uses the internet for, but then again there are those kids that only use it for academics. I do not think that the internet is a safe place. There is no privacy, there are predators, and people making stupid decisions that gets them into stuff.

        The internet is open to the world. when it comes to privacy on the internet, I do not think there is any. There may be websites that say you can make private, but there are so many other websites that people discover or create to be able to go into your so-called private page. There is no privacy in the internet just by its name, "World Wide Web" (www.), it is open to the world that says it all.

        Posting things on the internet may seem cool but that is before they get in trouble for the decisions they made. "Many students post pictures if themselves holding cans of beer, and bottles of liquor--even when they are underage." I think that this depends on the person. Not many students do things like this, but then again there are many that do. There are many females that take pictures being have way naked and they posted in online, but little do they know it could come back to haunt them. When they get older and wiser they well realize the decision they made was dumb, but cannot do anything about it now.

        There are many child predators on the internet looking for little kids, young adults, or even adults. "Earlier this week, two men were indicted on federal charges that they used the internet to have sexual contact with girls from Connecticut."  I think that if you have a facebook or a MySpace or any other website like those, then you should only add or request people that you know, because you never know what the person wants or what type of person he or she is. There are many predators that make fake profiles so that they could talk to little kids, they talk for awhile, then they make a plan to meet somewhere, and that is when the kid gets kidnapped.

        I use the internet for both social and academics. I talk to people that I know, not strangers! When a person tries to add me as a friend I just ignore them, because like I said before I do not know what the person wants or who the person is, and I'm not trying to find out. I take my academics seriously so I do my school things first. I think that whoever uses the internet should be careful and be smart about the things that they post or say on the internet, the world is not safe, let alone the internet.