from time to time occur it interesting that a post on Facebook will get huge spread, but have a comments field which is inaccessible to other than for the author’s friends. Then I usually study the comments carefully, since the many thousands who passed the post has only been able to express their opinion by pressing ”like” on one of the relatively few comments that already exist: it is a small easy-to-use, survey.
When Erika Johansson in Malmbäck wrote a text and published it on Facebook along with a bunch of pictures happened just this. Johansson described in the record how her 13-year-old son Marcus was contacted on Instagram by an account that claimed to fix a free account to the game Fortnite to him. However, there was one fly in the ointment. ”I want your account please do anything for you,” wrote Marcus. ”You can get if you send your mom’s or dad’s debit card back and forth with the picture,” said the account.
” But so gullible was not Marcus. We’ve talked a lot about the network back, there are people who may try to be fooled, ” said Johansson to Tranås Journal.
she published since, therefore a warning on Facebook, where she included a bunch of screenshots that showed DM-conversation between Marcus and bluffmakaren, who quickly changed the name on his account and disappeared. In the comment provided the most expressions of condemnation of this dirty attempt to steal the money of a child, but as a man appeared up with a comment that gets nearly 1,000 likes, without competition, the most of all. It is the comment that the passers-by have been drawn to with their gillafingrar, it is the one who expressed the feeling they themselves have been filled with after reading about the attempt to trick Marcus:
”This shows once again that the children neither shall have the flashy phones or unrestricted internet access.”
There it is again, the impulse, as a reaction to an attempt to the violation of a child of the grid to crop the child’s own freedom. It is not the first time we see it, and unfortunately probably not the last either. Since the web in all its forms, made its entry into the children’s everyday life, it has heard to the concerned and scared parents standardrepertoar to isolate, restrict and threaten with a digital curfew. I don’t think it is the right way to go. On the contrary: I think not only it is old-fashioned, and in our time is unsustainable, but directly counterproductive. I believe it creates more victims.
talked with her mother Erika, when he was the victim of an attempted fraud on the network was, by all accounts, to Erika both made clear to him how an assault can look like, and that it is not his fault if he is exposed. If Marcus had thought that Erika would react to strangle his access to the networks had him, he probably never mentioned this event to her, but been quiet about it and certainly much more. He had become a prime victim for the next faker, for which a silent victim is the best possible.
Parenting is about equipping their kids with good judgement, self-confidence necessary to rely on it and dialogkompetensen to be able to talk about their experiences, all for the one day itself be able to cope in the real world. With Marcus seems Erika have done an excellent job. But if he had feared turned off the internet and deleted the phone if my mother had know what he had, we might never become aware of the ugly attempt to trick him.
It had 13-year-old Marcus, in that case come to bear completely alone, instead of, as now, with the help of the entire community.
