Cyber Wellness

Cyber Wellness is definitely important as it can prevent one's from doing things that are illegal, such as free downloads of songs, movie and etc. People that set up the illegal website for free downloading of songs, movie and etc are unable to be tracked due to the wide network. However, people can control themselves to not download any items in the website IF they have strong cyber wellness. Therefore, I agree that cyber wellness is very important.

There are some teenagers that like to do "blog shopping", which means that clothes, shoes and etc are sold online in the website. Seller post product on their blog and those people that are interested to make purchase any item, they are required to pay by credit cards. However, buyers does not have the thoughts of if the seller took the money and did not deliver the products, they are unable to claim it back. Therefore, blog shopping might be dangerous.

Email is a common communication tools for everyone as it is easier than writing a letter. Writing an email saves time and money as only internet is needed. However, recently there are cases where emails are spam automatically and people that are curious in the content will tend to visit the website by the given link in the email. Some of the websites contain virus that might harm their computers. Therefore, it is not safe for younger people at the age of 12 - 14 years old to use email as a communication.

Instant messaging are very common nowadays as it is a simple and easy communication tool. Everyone uses instant messaging as messages are sent instantly without any delay. E.g. When A guy sent a message to B guy through instant messaging, B guy will receive the message during the next five seconds. Therefore, the message are being sent more faster and efficiently.

Inappropriate websites such as pornographic websites should be ban/block in Internet Cafes so as to prevent users from entering pornographic websites. Cases of sex abuse/raping/molesting are caused by people who visited the pornographic websites very often. If pornographic websites are not ban/block to prevent teenagers from visiting, more underage sex cases would definitely occurs. However, people with strong cyber wellness, will exit the website if they did not intend to visit it. Therefore, people themselves plays a part in managing cyber wellness.

Below are some of my suggestion to help improve cyber wellness of everyone.

Firstly, I suggest that parents should frequently check their children's laptop or computer to check whether is there any inappropriate website their child had visited and provide an advise for their children to help them understand why cyber wellness is important.

Secondly, I suggest that schools should hire professional to provide a talk to their students to enhance cyber wellness of the students.

Thirdly, Internet Cafes should ban/block all the websites that are illegal in their cafes so as to prevent users to visit the inappropriate websites.

By: Winston