Cyber Wellness

The World Wide Web as we know it has become a necessity to the society. It provides easy search of information, interaction and communication with family, friends and in most businesses, with fellow associates and clients. Therefore, it is essential that people practice cyber wellness. “Cyber Wellness refers to the positive well-being of Internet users and a healthy cyber culture for the Internet community”.

A way to cultivate the habit of cyber wellness is to nurture the youth as they “spend an average of 17.2 hours on the internet each week”. Cyber wellness helps youth to understand the issue of copyright and illegal activities that goes on online.

Issues such as cyber bullying and downloading of content off the internet have been on the rise. Cyber bullying comes about when an internet user abuses another party verbally. This could lead to great distress faced by the victims.

Social networking and blogging websites are platforms for internet users to express their thoughts and feelings but negative words used might unknowingly hurt another party.

Most youth nowadays tend to download contents of the internet without being aware it is illegal as they might be breaching copyright laws.

Youth might think that they are doing nothing wrong or that they could get away with it because the internet as we know it is a form of faceless communication. Anybody can pose as whoever they wish to be.

Schools has taken action by introducing cyber wellness to their students. But cyber wellness is not just for youths. It’s for anybody that uses the internet no matter how young or old they are.