Weekly NDM story

'We have abandoned our children to the internet'

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/abandoned-children-internet-addicted-virtual-damage
Summary of the story: 

This article is about how young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with care for collateral damage. Here parents believe the internet is actually tearing families, relationships and friendship apart, as it creates a virtual world of  no face-to-face communication. Children are constantly on their phones, having access to free pornography, which is worrying as children are given a false image of what the real world is actually about, and this ruins it for the parents as its their responsibility-  teaching them whats right and whats not and above all setting limits for their children.

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My view on the story:

In the article, it stated that ' Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage". I disagree to a certain extent,  No doubt, SOME young people are addicted to this world but most are not. Most young people are more than capable of separating their online world from their offline world. Most young people are perfectly capable of maintaining healthy friendships and relationships.

Also, if the teenagers are learning about sex from pornography, that is a failure of parenting and not the Internet. Blaming the Internet is wrong as i am a B grade student and have plenty of time for games and social media.