vivian-the+internet+influence+children-discursive

It is common that more and more people get access to the internet for their study, work or leisure time. At the same time, some special groups easily influenced by the internet catch our attention, which are children. They are enjoying the benefits from the internet as well as suffering the harmful influences from it. This essay will discuss the both side of this topic. Some people think the internet will be harmful for children in many ways. Firstly, it is easy to show some violence and obscene content to children, which have bad influence in their mental development. They may be misled into violent and sex crime. Secondly, there are too much interesting games in the internet. Children may be difficult to control the time in playing games which extremely affect their study. What is more, the crime occurring in the internet is increasing, which may hurt the children. Some people can use the technology to pretend their friends, date them and rob their money. Although there are so many concerns on the disadvantages of the internet, some other people believe its advantages should be cherished. First of all, the internet provides lots of useful information for their study. For example, they can find the effective dictionary on line for English learning and read the latest news to update their social knowledge. In addition, the internet can save their time to communicate with classmates, chatting on the internet instead of going out. Further more, the internet let children play at home, which keep them from dangerous places. The parents need not to worry children suffering dangers outside and save much money to buy various toys for them. In conclusion, the internet has good information as well as harmful one, which depends on how children use them; the internet have many games, which depend on how much time children play; the internet and outside places both have danger, which depend on the parents how to minimize. It seems that, if the parents have really paid attention to children about the content, the time and the friends they make in the internet, the children can enjoy the benefits from it and avoid its bad influence.