Summary about teenagers giving up school

We will talk about teenagers’ issues with the internet and social networks, building on Larry Magid’s statements in December 2015 for The Guardian, a British centre-left daily newspaper.

The European commission’s General Data Protection Regulation is dealing with a new law about data privacy and about how those data is collected and used. But also and more specifically they talked about teenagers security on social networks.
Today, the minimum legal age for using social networks is 13 years old. But we have no means, no tools, to check if the consumer is really this old.
Internet and its whole world can be very dangerous for all these young people.
We observe different effect on their daily life, such as a lack of sleep, which can impact on their behaviour turning them to be more aggressive, or it can impact their concentration at school and make them much less efficient.
But not only their sleep is affected, in various way possible it is a mental attack to them to spend a lot of time on social networks or playing online. They give a lot of importance to who they appear to be, and if not fitting in the lines they will be mocked and discriminated.
It has been demonstrated for a while now that videogame do have a negative impact on young men’s behaviour making them more aggressive and having impact also on concentration and many other side effects.
Today deal is to protect them in some better ways than we are trying to do now but also to give them this security ensuring also the respect of their human rights granted the Un-Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The real problem remains in individual countries where they have no obligation of regulation and which can sometimes make a form of resistance for different motivations.
But we now have more knowledge on the Internet and social networks, its functioning and also its effects, so we have more power to face all these issues.