Cyber Wellness

People are enjoying easy life in modern time. The greatest invention in age is the Information Technology(IT) where people get to blog, watch youtube, see facebook, play online games. All these are related to Internet mainly. But you can never know how bad it can be.
That is where Cyber Wellness comes to mind. To know the important of cyber wellness, it involves positive well being of internet users and development of a healthy cyber culture for the Internet community. Understanding the risks of harmful online behaviour and being more aware of how to protect oneself and other Internet users from such behaviour and using the Internet to benefit oneself and the community at large.

Cyber bullying can inflict a serious impact on teenagers. In front of computer screen through internet, when people interact with each other, most people do not know your face or real name. Such interactions can be MSN, gaming online, forums, blogging,etc. Through their virtual names, people cannot find out about their real names. Thus, with this advantage, these people start to accuse, torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrass the helpless children or tennagers. As a result, being helpless against those accusations and humiliation, the affected ones feel negative feelings – sad, angry, embarrassed, etc and even leading to one committing suicide.

Game addiction is the excessive use of computer games that interferes with daily life. Teenagers nowadays have become more obsessed with online games especially Dota, counter strike, maple story, etc. By being addicted to these, they keep on playing even until late night. It affects their ability to study and being tired in school after late gaming. It is viewed as a bad habit and they should learn to be more aware of serious consequences.

Dangers of sharing personal information online (for example, in chat rooms), online socialisation (for example, making new friends via chat rooms). Hearing people getting scammed over internet is common nowadays. Those people nowadays are not fully aware of cyber wellness. These deceivers set out to cheat people of their feelings and money. They offer attractive benefits to the customers if they can buy their products online. It makes use of them to give out their personal information such as credit card numbers and also paying online. In the end, these deceivers are able to scam people of their money easily and the customers become victims unknowingly.

Invasions Of privacy is the act of invading other’s computers through virus and fake software. By invading, they can get personal information such as online ID and PW for websites(facebook, twitter, etc) and also online gamings. People especially teenagers without knowing the importance of cyber wellness, tend to fall in trap easily. With a lack of understanding through internet, they unknowingly download illegal software, songs and files. Among them, there is a virus which can damage their computers and steal some important information. It can never be a good thing to download illegally with the idea of getting “free things”.

By knowing oneself and the importance of Cyber wellness, one can protect himself/herself from the dangers and serious consequences under the use of Internet.