The Internet is a great resource for children. It can be fun and educational.
Internet gives the opportunity to be exposed to many different cultures.
For example, the Internet can be used by children as a learning resource for their school projects or hobbies, as a way to make friends and communicate with other children to share their interests, it helps break down communication barriers, it is an all-inclusive medium, no one can be excluded for race, disability or creed. It even goes further by allowing children who cannot leave their home or care centre to be included in other kid's online activities. Like anything else, it is important that children should be shown by their parents and educators how to best use those resources and it is important that children's access should be tailored to their needs by using the right parental controls available. Risks are that children might be tempted to go and look for information that is not appropriate to them, just like when they could be tempted in a library to browse an adult section. Some ISPs have developed parental controls on their server which allows parents to tailor their children's access according to their age and according to their needs.