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Cartoon warns of horrors social media for children
Video: Twitter, YouTube and Pedobear: Koreans warn of a horrific online future for kids
The Taiwanese animation company famous for its hilarious takes on Tiger Woods, Rupert Murdoch and Gordon Brown has released a new film, this time satirising fears about the internet's growing influence on young children's lives.
The world created by Next Media Animation is a terrifying one. Rather than communicate face to face, children only communicate by Twitter. An attempt to create a viral video on YouTube is extreme to say the least.
Perhaps worst of all, well if you are a sheriff in California, is the herd of Pedobears lying in wait for children.
NMA lays the blame for this sorry state of affairs squarely at the feet of parents. According to a survey, 80 per cent of western children have a social media presence by the age of two.
Google CEO Steve Schmidt also makes an appearance in the video thanks to his declaration that children in the future will need to change their names when they hit 18 so as to shed the online embarrassments of their youth. ·
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If Alex Lewis does not get the point here, has he no children of a broad age range of 5-15. Go to any (dare I use the term?) kids party and you'll find 50% of them txting in silence, apart from the odd chuckle, and just like in the cartoon, they're texting across the room, this is not future, it is NOW. Hopefully, one day they'll discover the joys of verbal communication, before they're completely incapable of it or can't be weaned off Twitter or Facebook to name just 2.