I've been thinking about this for a while now and I honestly think many people should not be allowed to use the internet. This discussion is similar to the TV debate where parents wouldn't let their kids watch TV but the difference is there's not just 200 channels, there's 200 million channels and you can't just put a lock on the internet like you could on the TV.

People who are not born/ did not grow up in America will watch YouTube videos and think it's okay to call a black person a Nigger(Nigga), a person of Spanish descent a spic and a Caucasian person a cracker. I'm pretty sure we all know that spewing racial slurs is not okay but in a world where someone who is not familiar with certain customs and they actually witness people do it, all of a sudden it becomes okay. They repeat to other people, who repeat it to other people and the cycle never ends.

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So yesterday at work, this guy who comes in every single morning. He clearly has no respect or home training, he expects my office manager to do anything concerning him right away no matter who else is waiting. He goes to my office manager whose name is Amanda for the purpose of this post and says "Amanda can you believe I got fricking jumped?!" So of course she's highly uninterested and goes "oh yeah, what happened?",  he says "I don't know they just jumped me, I can show you the pictures on facebook", ::she logs into facebook and looks at his pics:: she says "wow who did that to you?" he goes "three niggers and a white"....

There are scores of kids who religiously log on to World Star Hip Hop to get their dumb fix, not realizing that World Star Hip Hop is not real life. They're YouTube users who create viral stars, they watch videos of people with the foulest mouths talking about things they have not even experienced yet, doing things their parents tell them not too. It's honestly degenerating to the brain. The internet has kind of transformed into a dumb tube sucking in innocent people and kids.  It's kind of scary to think my little brother will be watching these dumb ass videos when he gets older, imitating the shit he sees even dumber people do. Just the thought of my little brother not knowing how to fly a kite but knowing all the words to a youtube video talking about Lil Wayne and cash money. It spooks the shit out of me.


It's suddenly okay for a 4 year old to say "fuck you bitch" or socially acceptable for a 5 year old to throw cash on his mother while she's shaking her ass like a stripper. How did we become the "dumber" nation? How did stereotypes in passing become actually reality?

I honestly didn't understand what Lupe Fiasco's "dumb it down" was really about when I was in school because I was surrounded by people who were eloquent with great intellect and aspirations but I'm surrounded by different types of people some uneducated and some whose customs differs from mine and I can honestly say I feel like Lupe Fiasco. It's not just about the music, it's not even about being black, and it's not about the lifestyle. It's totally about being educated and educating others. I'm not being self righteous because we all need a laugh sometimes or a break from the strains of every day life, but maybe next time we can be a bit more conscious about the shit we pass on..

On the other side there are real websites out there that offer real news. I constantly log on to Yahoo and the New York Times. But how many kids are honestly logging on to these sites? When I was living at home I read the newspaper and watched the news everyday. But then again I also ate dinner at the table with everyone else. LOL. The internet is not COMPLETELY bad it's just the content that the majority of kids are looking at is not GOOD.

"I know there’s a lot of research and concern around the impact of the internet and digital media on children. But hanging out with my dad recently, it hit me that his relationship with or addiction to the computer is somewhat different from mine. While I’m also probably addicted, I might have developed a certain kind of filter or technique earlier on for dealing with all this information. But what about older people?
One of the reasons I really wanted to make this film was that after making Growing Up Online, there was this kind of idea out there of all these kids having issues to deal with. But there were issues that I was dealing with, when I started that film. I was attracted personally anyway to my phone having internet access. But it was huge in terms of my constant connectivity. My oldest kid isn’t even 12 yet, but it’s much more a problem for me than it is for him.

I’ve been at the dinner table, out to dinner with our friends, and we’ll habitually check our phones. And I just think when you’re not being honest how much this is a problem, and how much we’re modeling something for our children — that’s something we need to be aware of."

-motherboard.tv