The use of social media and the Internet has a considerable impact on the lives of children and young people. Describe both the positive and negative aspects of this. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and the Internet in general, have greatly changed the way we interact on a daily basis. Marc Prensky defined this generation as “digital natives” and states that it is necessary to accept the digital generation but try to relate to it and integrate the skills of young people into everyday life, especially in education: “The time has come them to stop complaining, and as the Nike motto of the digital native generation says, “Just do it!”… Instructors of digital immigrants, who speak an obsolete language (that of the pre-digital era), struggle to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language” (Prensky 2001) According to a study completed by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop, over 80% of children access the Internet weekly (Joanganzcooneycenter.org), 2014 and according to Pew Internet & American Project Life, over 93% of adolescents...