1 Today, when we enter the Internet society, we find that there are many points of convergence between young people and the Internet. It is these points of convergence that make young people have a "deep love for the Internet". Under the influence of the Internet, young people are in various forms and have shown many of their splendors to the society, which is also surprising. However, the disgraceful performance of many young netizens cannot bring glory to society in any way, and it cannot let people sit back and relax.
1. Internet access location: 58.8% of teenage users access the Internet at home, 31.5% of users access the Internet at the homes of relatives and friends, and 20.45% of users access the Internet at Internet cafes, coffee shops or electronic game arcades. %, 15.0% use the Internet at their parents’ or other people’s offices, and 10.8% use the Internet at school.
2. Estimation of Internet time and satisfaction with Internet time: Teenage users spend an average of about 212 minutes online per week, and if averaged to a daily basis, it is about 30 minutes. 37.0% of users believe that their online time is "just right", 12.0% of users think that "more is enough", and only 0.7% think that "it is too much". 31.7% of users think it is “relatively few”, and 18.5% of teenage users think it is “too few”. In other words, 50% of teenage users are not satisfied with the time they spend online.
3. Use of Internet functions: 62% for playing games; 54.5% for using chat rooms; 48.6% for sending and receiving emails; 39.7% for downloading and storing web pages; and 39.7% for using search engines. Accounting for 25.0%; subscribing to news accounted for 21.9%; Internet phone calls accounted for 14.7%; online paging accounted for 14.3%; creating and updating personal web pages accounted for 12.6%; uploading files accounted for 9.4%; Bulletin boards (BBS) accounted for 9.2%; proxy servers accounted for 2.3%.
The influence of the Internet
1. The positive influence of the Internet
1. The Internet helps to innovate the means and methods of ideological education for young people. By using the Internet to carry out moral education, educators can communicate with teenagers on an equal basis with their true mentalities as netizens without any scruples. This is important for moral education workers to understand and accurately understand the thoughts of teenagers and carry out positive guidance and comprehensive Direction communication provides a new and fast method. In addition, due to the real-time and interactive characteristics of the dissemination of network information, young people can maintain rapid interaction with multiple educators or educational information at the same time, thereby increasing the frequency of ideological interaction and improving educational effects; because network information is downloadable, Delay features such as storability can extend the time for ideological interaction between the educator and the educated, providing "all-weather" ideological guidance and education for young people. You can also meet online and gather offline to nourish and supplement online moral education work, thereby resolving conflicts in a timely manner, warming people's hearts, mobilizing enthusiasm, and stimulating creativity.
2. Provides a new channel for knowledge and learning. At present, when our country's educational resources cannot meet the demand, the Internet provides a vast campus for knowledge and learning. Learners can receive higher education at any time and anywhere, learn all courses studied by college students, complete credits, and obtain Bachelor of Science. This is undoubtedly the best relief for young people in the examination-oriented education system. It is not only beneficial to their physical and mental health development, but also beneficial to the stability of their families and even society.
3. Expand young people’s global vision and improve their overall quality. Internet access broadens young people's political horizons and knowledge, thereby contributing to the formation of their global consciousness. Similarly, it can improve the overall quality of young people. By surfing the Internet, they can cultivate their ability to communicate with all kinds of people; by reading various useful books on the Internet, they can learn by analogy and improve their own cultural literacy.
2 Negative effects of the Internet
1. It poses a potential threat to the formation of "three views" of young people. It is easy for young people to come into contact with capitalist propaganda, cultural ideas, etc. on the Internet. Their thoughts are in extreme contradictions and confusion, and their outlook on life and values ????are easily tilted, which breeds total westernization, hedonism, money worship, admiration for foreigners, etc. Bad thoughts.
2. The Internet has changed young people’s interpersonal relationships and lifestyles in work and life.
Teenagers openly and frankly express their views and opinions online, demanding equal dialogue and challenging the authority of youth workers, so that the effects of ideological and political work often fail to meet expectations. At the same time, access to the Internet makes it easy for young people to form a self-centered way of living, with weak collective consciousness and the proliferation of individual liberal thoughts.
3. Information garbage weakens the ideological and moral consciousness of young people. According to relevant expert surveys, 47% of online information is related to pornography, and about 60% of teenagers are inadvertently exposed to pornographic information online. There are also some illegal organizations or individuals who publish black information online that disrupts the political economy and confuse young people. This kind of information garbage will weaken the ideological and moral awareness of young people, pollute their minds, and mislead their behavior.
4. The hidden nature of the Internet has led to an increase in immoral and illegal behaviors among young people. On the one hand, a small number of teenagers browse pornographic and illegal websites and use false identities to make malicious friends and chat. On the other hand, cyber crimes have increased, such as spreading viruses, hacking, theft through banks and credit cards, fraud, etc. These criminal subjects are mainly teenagers, and most of them have simple motives. Some of them are even for "fun", "enjoyment" and "showing talent". In addition, the imperfect legal system related to the Internet also gives young people an opportunity to commit crimes.