{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F476dcdc5-8a8f-4c91-8b7e-aaba5a9b3b35","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Teen talk: What it\u2019s like to grow up online, and the role of parents","description":"Growing up is different for teens today.\u00a0\nIssues with identity, self-expression, bullying, fitting in, and trusting your friends and family\u2014while all those certainly existed decades ago, they were never magnified in quite the same way that they are today, and that's largely because of one enormous difference: The Internet.\u00a0\nOn the Internet, the lines of friendship are re-enforced and blurred by comments or likes on photos and videos. Bullying can reach outside of schools, in harmful texts or messages posted online. Entirely normal feelings of isolation can be negatively preyed upon in online forums where users almost radicalize one another by sharing anti-social theories and beliefs. And the opportunity to compare one\u2019s self against another\u2014another who is taller, or thinner, or a different color, or who lives somewhere else or has more friends\u2014never goes away.\u00a0\nThe Internet is forever present for our youngest generation, and, from what we know, it\u2019s hurting a lot of them.\u00a0\nIn 2021,\u00a0the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed nearly 8,000 high school students in the country and found that children today were sadder, more hopeless, and more likely to have contemplated suicide than just 12 years prior.\nDespite the concerns, we still thrust children\u00a0into\u00a0the Internet today, either to complete a homework assignment, or to create an email account to register for other online accounts, or to simply talk with their friends. We also repeatedly post photos of them online, often without discussing whether they want that.\u00a0\nIn today's episode of Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak to two guests so that we can better understand what it is like to grow up online today and what the challenges are of raising children in this same environment now.\u00a0\nOur first guest, Nitya Sharma, is a Bay Area teenager who speaks with us about the difficulties of managing her time online and in trying to meet friends and complete homework, the traps of trading online interaction with in-person socializing, and what she would do differently with her children, if she ever started a family, in preparing them for the Internet.\n\n\"I think the things that kids find on the Internet, they're going to find anyways. I probably\u00a0found some stuff too young and it was bad...\u00a0I think it's more of, I don't want them to become dependent on it.\"\n\nBut our episode doesn't end there, as we also bring in 1Password co-founder Sara Teare to discuss how parents can help their kids navigate the Internet today and in the future. Teare's keenly attuned to this subject, not only because she is a parent, but also because her company has partnered with Malwarebytes to release new reserach this week\u2014available October 13\u2014on growing up and raising kids online.\u00a0\nTune in today to hear both Nitya's stories and Sara's advice on growing up and raising children online.\u00a0\nShow notes and credits:\nIntro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/54c56c25-bbdd-4326-9371-28a2d312f3b8/lock-and-code-logo-2021-ar2rs.jpg"}