Role2 Parent

Role2: Parent

Q1: How do the parents think about the positive and negative sides of the social networking sites?
A: The positive sites are it can know more informations, also it can watch the news, movies etc. in the social networking sites. Moreover, it may find their old friends through the network. Can know their childs' secret on the internet.the negative sides of the social networking sites are it may receive some negative informations in the social networking sites. And it is difficult to use the social networking sites.

Q2: As a parent, how do you think about the influence of social networking sites towards the relationship between teens and family?
A: The teens may feel us annoying because we always tell them don't play on the social networking sites, and it cannot help the studies. Also, if we know their secrets in the social networking sites, they will hate us because they will think the social networking sites is the place that they can communicate with friends, not the parents.If this feel this long time, our relationship will bad.

Q3: How can the parents understand more about their children through the social networking sites?
A: They can make a account to check or see their children on the social networking sites. Also, they can ask their childrens' teacher, because they may add their teacher be friends on the social networking sites, but I think it is a not good or correct way to understand more.

Q4: If there are conflicts between family and children, how the social networking sites help to release the problems/ make it worse?
A: It will make it worse because the conflict may be made by the teens always use the computer. And if family and children have conflicts, why don't you solve the problem face to face? Moreover the social networking sites just is the communication tools, it can solve problems, but not all problems.