Societal aspects of ICT

My children and ICT.

I will write about how ICT affects the daily life of my children in social and cultural ways.

If we look into cultural aspect using ICT for instance facebook give the children possibility to learn people and nations to know than any other technology. They are also able to get to know the culture like music, language and lifestyle of other people and countries much better then was normal for just ten years ago.

A problem for the culture forced by the ICT is that old culture channels can disappear because the youth is not interested in it. This can be a challenge both for old techniques and also for local culture events because the children today think these are not exciting enough compare with more “exotic” activities in the ICT.

The ICT have big effects on the social life of my children. It give them many possibilities to communicate with other people in a very directly and fast manner. It makes them much more multi social then I was when I grew up. But we need to look after with whom they communicate with because in the social media there are unfortuneally a lot of unserious people. This people try to get in contact with children and in different ways abuse the child. Another problem with the ICT and the children is that they get so hacked up in using the computer so they sit all day long using the pc. I have therefore made house rules which regulate how much time the can use the computer daily.

I would like to hear your opinion about how much time you think a child shall be using the computer on social medias daily.


My experience is that it is necessary to have limited time for the daily use of internet by my children. On weekdays they can use the net maximum two hours and in weekends four hours