To follow up my yesterday's blog post, this blog is about another article in BBCNews called "Hacking "fun" for British teens". It is not surprising that teens can hack, since the majority of teens everywhere are likely to spend most of their freetime on computers, so they sure are good at computer. Also, teens always known for their curiousities, thus, it's natural that they hack, or try to hack, others' passwords into personal websites or information. However, from looking at the statistic, the situation must be taken into account. It turns out that in the survey "one in four young Britons attempts to access the Facebook accounts of their friends" and the reason for doing so is "for fun".
Encouraging teens to spend their freetime exploring how computer works is a good thing to do. Nevertheless, teens are so uncontrolable, without carefully watching from adults they might actually cause real harms somedays. Since the internet is so wide spread nowadays, schools must acknowledge students more. Not only how to use it, but also proper ways to use it, and maybe etiquetes and laws, too. Hacking is illegal, even if teens just do it for fun, aiming it to be pranks, and not really intend for any damages, it is still against the law.
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References
Hacking "fun" for British teens. (2010, March 18). BBC News. Retrieved March 18, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8574259.stm
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