Cyber Wellness

Cyber wellness is the positive well-being of Internet users. It includes how to protect oneself from harmful online behaviour from the internet. It teaches us how we should protect ourselves on the internet and also how cyber wellness can affect us. In order to educate students on how to protect themselves from these dangerous people online, schools have organised talks about cyber wellness to allow them to understand more, what the disadvantages are when making friends online and to raise awareness of the danger on the internet.

According to the article "Singaporean youths still lacking in cyber wellness", it states that singaporean teens have lost control of use of computer. This shows that they rely heavily on computers, and which is why they have to know the basic knowledge about cyber wellness so that they can protect themselves and also, the community. Teenagers should know how to manage their time properly and not use their computers too much as it is dangerous if they know nothing about cyber wellness. Cyber wellness does not only include harmful behaviour only, it also includes piracy. Examples of it will be copying of songs. Parents should know what their children are doing on the internet. They will be charged if they are caught as these crimes are against the law.

Parents play a part in ensuring that their children are safe when using the internet and also, to ensure that they do not do any copying of files from the original ones. In addition, they can tell them more about cyber bullying and such to make sure that teenagers are knowledgable on cyber wellness. This is important because it keeps the healthy cyber culture going.