What do we remember when it comes to the safety of our children? The list of questions is approximately the same, and one might say that it is passed down from generation to generation. It is necessary to teach how to cross the road, not to open the door to strangers, not to leave the playground, not to take anything edible from strangers, to teach the rules of safe behavior in school, garden, elevator, on the road, on the street... As the child becomes more independent, new “points” emerge - the parent talks to the child, basically, about what he himself was taught. In kindergartens and schools, during safety lessons, the child learns the same things that we studied twenty years ago. And due to the fact that life has become more intense - there are more and more cars every year, and it is very easy to get lost in any shopping center, the task of a parent has become more complicated, more anxiety has arisen - how can a child ensure safety in a world with such an intense rhythm?? Until now for For us, security is security in the external, real environment. And very little is said about what the virtual environment contains. At the same time, the average schoolchild spends several hours a day on gadgets and the Internet, where the information flow is diverse and uncontrollable by the parent. Of course, parents care about the obvious - access to gaming and pornographic sites. That's all. In the minds of most parents, the danger of the Internet environment is limited to this. Social networks have already become an almost integral attribute of our lives. Almost everyone has a page on Facebook, Contact, Odnoklassniki. And children and teenagers are no exception. The child receives almost unlimited access to contacts with other people, including adults. Including adults and teenagers who have negative intentions - distributing drugs, satisfying sexual needs. This part of life exists and it is huge - but hidden from the eyes of others. Anyone, hiding behind a beautiful avatar, can try to establish contact with your child. Thousands of children, driven by the desire to please, the need to be accepted, enter into correspondence, which is followed by: an offer to meet, an offer to send a photograph of erotic content and the exchange of such photographs and materials, an offer to try drugs and a first-hand account of how it all happened It’s great how it gives you a feeling of fullness of life, solves problems, gives you the opportunity to join the “elite club” and be accepted, the opportunity to “do what you always wanted,” because parents don’t allow this..... The responsibility of every parent is to have a conversation with the child. About what can be seen on the Internet, about what can be hidden behind the avatars of strangers, about the fact that in communication they pursue exclusively their own benefit. In adolescence, a child is especially vulnerable. Here is a hormonal surge, separation from parents, meeting with one’s difficult experiences, falling in love, first failures, complexes, conflicts with classmates…. The virtual world may seem like a tempting way to get rid of problems, here is the ease of communication, the opportunity to appear more confident, the opportunity to show your sexuality... Another unsightly side of a virtual presence on social networks is the bullying of teenagers that is now gaining enormous proportions through special sites and profiles on Facebook and Contact . Usually bullying starts from anonymous users. The teenager is bombarded with a barrage of hateful and angry messages. In this case, the goal is to humiliate, trample a person, deprive him of support, guidelines, and this is very easy to do - bullying is usually collective, as when the whole class beats and humiliates one... The teenager experiences a feeling of powerlessness and the inability to resist this, and if parents and teachers do not they know what’s going on, he’s left alone with it…. The topic of bullying on the Internet is a separate, huge, painful one, unfortunately, there are already statistics that every fourth schoolchild experiences this in.