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Children across the city get lectures on the downside of using social media as they return to school after holidays. An Education Post report last week, which led to the arrests of three kids who posted AI-generated morphed nudes of 15-year-old girls, aims to disrupt the scary trend of increasing smartphone usage among school students.
By EPN DeskUpdated
Some schools invited cybercrime experts and officials from the police department to the orientation sessions to provide lectures on the downside of using social media at an early age.
“…We have delivered lectures by cybercrime experts about the consequences of misusing social media. Even parents say they are helpless in controlling their teenage children, and so we have directed our counsellors to create awareness among them by quoting the recent incident and what happened after that, and how the culprits were caught,” Bhuvaneshwari J, principal and director of Presidency School, Bangalore South, was quoted as saying.
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Avanthi Reddy, Academic Head of the Science Division at Sadhana PU College in Uttarahali, said the blame lies with the parents. “There should be control and a close watch by parents on what their children are posting on Instagram, whom they are friends with, their chat history, and chatting subjects,” she told the paper.
Gayethri Devi, principal of the Little Flower Public School, seconded Reddy. “In a class of 40, 20 may have been open to social media and the other 20 may be naïve, so we need to be very sensitive in our approach,” she said, while advising parents to get their wards a basic mobile phone for emergency purposes instead of a smartphone.
Meanwhile, the Associated Management of Primary and Secondary Schools of Karnataka has issued an advisory, urging parents to keep a “robust tab” on their children’s social media activities.
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“Children are increasingly using social media through fake accounts, without the knowledge of their parents. They use it for activities ranging from building relationships to taking revenge,” the association’s secretary D Shashi Kumar said, adding that parents need to encourage their kids to spend more time on outdoor activities than staying glued to their smartphones.
