Cyber wellness

The internet displays both good and bad information and it could be both useful and harmful depending on the user, which is why cyber wellness is so essential to ensure the proper use of the internet

Cyber wellness is essential to computer users especially, one who spent over 5 hours on the computer each day. The article mentioned that Singaporeans are not vigilant when it comes to cyber assaults. They do not report illegal activities also display ignorance about copyright laws which a serious crime is also known as plagiarism which was one of the blog topics we’re assigned to. I believe we all know the importance of respecting one’s work. Ironically they claim to be street-smart in cyber space.

I believe that cyber wellness should be practiced and cultivated upon the use of internet as there is risk of being exposed to unsuitable content such as pornography, also harmful behavior. By cultivating cyber wellness it helps in understanding harmful online behavior and ways to protect oneself from such behavior.
Some of the ways to build cyber wellness are, involvement of parents in cyber wellness among youth, filtering the content to only display useful and relevant information, educating them about the potential risk of cyber space.

Having said that, it’s not always easy to control such behavior as the education now requires much use of the internet and it’s hard not to come across harmful articles.

-mich