Young CHATTERS

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Young CHATTERS
or
Big CHEATERS

• Teenagers and Internet Survey results

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Contents
About the Team
Part I
Part II Description and Goals of the Project
Part II
Part III Teenagers Survey Results
Part III
Part IV Parents Survey Results
Part IV
Part V How They Consider the Results
Part V
Part VI Project artifacts
Part VI
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Part I About the Team
Ahmad Al Omran Secondary Boys School
School name
Hoora, Bahrain, Gulf Area
Location
Grades
K - 10 11
Team members
Mohamad Al Jamal Team Facilitator
In Collaboration with
Mrs. Amal Malallah Team Facilitator
Khawla Secondary Girls School
ALIHassan
ABDULKareem
AHMADWaheed
ABDULAziz
SALMAN
MOHAMAD
MOHAMADSadeq
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Part II Description and Goals of the Project
Nowadays, millions of teenagers around the world
use the Internet for a long time, especially for
chatting. We think that they are addicted to both
the Internet and chatting. Therefore, we would
like to know how far the teenagers and their
parents are aware of the problem and what they
may suggest to get rid of it.
Why we suggest this project
Goals

• To make teenagers aware of their Internet
  addiction.
• To help teenagers to think of the causes of this
  problem.
• To help teenagers themselves suggest solutions
  and methods that will help teenagers to stop
  surfing the net for a long time.

• An online questionnaire for students

Tools

• An online questionnaire for parents

Number of respondents
49 teenagers 14 boys and 35 girls
21 parents
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Part III Teenagers Survey Results
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• The Internet is no longer a luxury. A grand
  percentage of 78 use the Internet on a daily
  basis! Obviously, everybody loves the Internet!
  How they utilize it however, is a different
  story, one that is waiting to be told!
• Internet penetration in Bahrain is very high
  this translates to large amounts of home users,
  as the years go by, the numbers will grow further
  in the home user department.
• Most Bahraini teenagers use the Internet for
  chatting but at the same time, they also do other
  activities like searching for information
  (read Copy-pasting to satisfy school
  reports/projects) and playing games.
• The great majority of teenager in Bahrain have
  a large contact list some even have multiple
  contact addresses with completely different
  contacts in each.

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Part III Teenagers Survey Results (Continued)

• Examples of most popular sites for teenagers in
  Bahrain
• Search engines (ex google)
• Forums
• "Social Networking Sites (ex hi5 / myspace /
  facebook)
• Email sites (ex hotmail / gmail / yahoo)
• Games / entertainment sites (ex Miniclip)
• Newspaper / local / world news / news sites
• "Educational (ex wikipedia.com / iEarn )
• The advantages of surfing the Internet for a long
  time according to the respondents are
• it improves your English language
• It opens you up to other cultures
• It improves your typing skills tremendously
• You eventually learn to deal with the more
  technical things in computers

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Part III Teenagers Survey Results (Continued)

• The disadvantages of of surfing the internet for
  a long time according to the respondents are
• It has negative effects on your eyesight, hearing
  (possibly) and fitness,
• fitness and hearing impacts can be countered
  with exercise / proper volume levels!
• Addiction to the Internet This is true to an
  extent, there are people who can't live for 30
  minutes without their beloved Internet!
• Viruses, spyware
• You could run into disturbing popups.

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Part III Teenagers Survey Results (Continued)

• Teenagers suggest the following to help teenagers
  who surf the net for long times
• Move attention towards other hobbies / activities
• Go out and other miscellaneous outdoor
  activities.
• Study Pfffffffft, like studying ever cured an
  addiction
• Put a proper schedule for when to go online.
• Do relaxation exercises What? Yoga? O_O.
• Have the addicted person become more aware of the
  health dangers associated with long net' sessions
  Hey, not a bad idea. Tis' the first step
  however!
• Have someone watch over them and disallow them
  to stay online for long.
• The other non-net surfing hobbies include
• Reading, Watching TV, Talking on the phone,
  Video games, Sports Whether it's basketball or
  football, listening to music, writing Whether
  they're poems or stories, drawing, shopping,
  cooking Surprise, no?

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Part III Teenagers Survey Results (Continued)

• Most parents shout at their children for staying
  too long online (or for opening a pornographic
  website). The reasons, according to the
  respondents are
• They fear for my health.
• They have nothing better to do .
• They want me to focus on studying.
• They want me to do other things... such as
  cleaning my room.
• Because I spend too much time on the computer.
• My bad marks.
• Teenagers have their own reasons to lie at their
  parents
• I want to stay online longer.
• My parents have no idea what I'm doing so I lied.
• I don't have the time to explain to them, easier
  to lie.
• Because my parents always want to know everything
  in absolute detail.
• Because it's none of their business A bit rude
  I say!

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Part IV Parents Survey Results
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• The majority of parents know about computers and
  how to use them.
• Three quarters of parents see their kids as smart
  and wonderful, however they dont know everything
  about them.
• Two Third of respondent parents know that their
  children sit for long times on the computer.
• Half of the parents think that their kids are
  studying or looking for information on the net.
• 42 of parents sometimes talk to their children
  about being glued to the computer for a long
  time.
• More than half of the parents think that sitting
  that long on the computer influences their kid's
  marks negatively.

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Part IV Parents Survey Results (Continued)

• More than half of parents (56) dont think that
  their children are addicted to the Internet
• Disconnecting the Internet cable is the solution
  to Internet addiction according to most parents.
• The kids solutions to their fellows addiction
  sound more reasonable than their parents. That
  makes me think, Are the kids living in a world
  and the parents in another? Or is it just the
  parents who are refusing to believe that the
  world has changed and is changing ?

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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results
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MARIAM Ghazi, 15
KHAWLA Sec. School
I was not astonished by the results, because I
know the situation we are in. I know that there
are lots of disadvantages on spending our time
chatting. But really really we cannot help it.
Chatting becomes part any teenager daily life. We
all chat, so how can I not log in and start a
conversation when I know that all my friends are
there waiting??!!

Chatting becomes part of any teenager daily life.
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results
The results are as clear as crystal, as anyone
living in Bahraini and is a teenager will tell
you that a lot of his/her friends use the
computer exclusively for chat. The number of MSN
messenger contacts has become something we brag
about when we talk to friends at school, we also
have a tendency to exchange contact addresses
with each other just to keep in touch and further
bloat the MSN contact list. Obviously, this
gigantic usage of chat in Bahrain is a sign of
so-so computer literacy, although I wish if
people were more eager to explore things beyond
the realm of MSN messenger and internet
explorer. As a conclusion, this is nothing new
if youre a teenager living in Bahrain its
common knowledge over here.
ALI Hassan Jumaa

Parents attitude to the internet addiction is
inspiring
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results (Continued)
SARA Al Saad, 15
KHAWLA Sec. School
Well, reading the result makes me realize the
size of the problem my colleagues face. I am not
addicted to chatting as I have more priorities in
my life. I always advise my friends to focus on
the important things in their life like studying
having a good relationship with their family
improve themselves and start building their
future. I really wish this well come to an end
like many other phenomenon in teenagers life

I am not addicted to chatting as I have more
priorities in my life.
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results (Continued)
Most teenagers are internet junkies, most dont
like admitting it. Some brag about it. A lot of
teenagers use the internet on a daily basis and
for more than 5 hours (myself included), and the
majority of these people chat or search for
information. I am under the impression that
most parents didnt answer sincerely on the
questionnaire, because they were flattering their
children in every answer and no parent flatter
their teenage child. Half the answers to the
question why do your children use the internet
came out to be that the child is using it to
study or for school, and when we asked that same
question to the children. So, its clear that
the parents are hoodwinked. But most parents
agree that their children are in fact addicted to
the internet and they gave some excellent ways to
cure it, my personal favorite is Nothing.
ABDUL AZIZ AbdulWahed Murad

I am under the impression that most parents
didnt answer sincerely on the questionnaire
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results (Continued)
FATIMA Al Ghattam
KHAWLA Sec. School
I have answered the questionnaire and I admit
that I like chatting and I have a long list.
However, I do not let that take a big part of my
day. Well, my parents do not allow me to spend a
long time on the computer. They are always around
checking things and asking us about homework and
stuff. Therefore, I believe that they have a
major role in their children attitudes and
believes towards everything in life. I am not
sure what I was going to be used to if my parents
werent the same.

I like chatting and I have a long list. However,
I do not let that take a big part of my day.
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results (Continued)
I quite expected the students answers-I am a
student too. On the contrary students showed no
love for their parents . Their answers were
similar and showed that in their opinion
parents do not listen to them , neither want to
talk about it. Parents' opinion rules, end
of discussion that's how most student found
their parents act, and that's what seems to make
them unaware of what is happening ,-even though
they might think they are. Amazingly, students
showed a great understanding to each other
problems and issues. When a child ask his parent
about something they usually say"we know what is
better for you".Well, you better show me wh it is
better for me or else let me solve things by my
own because whatever you are going to say
probably won't be accepted.
ABDUL KAREEM Abdulla Shabeeb

Amazingly, students showed a great understanding
to each other problems and issues.
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Young CHATTERS or big CHEATERS
Part V How They Consider the Results (Continued)
KHADIJA Mohamad
KHAWLA Sec. School
Wow, I think we are in a serious problem. We
really need to do something. After reading the
result, I may consider myself one of the people
who really need help. I leave the computer open
24/7. It is on and I am logged in even if I am at
school, I just put you know the sign away and
then be online whenever I am in my room. I
thought deeply of things I do and wanted to do in
my time as one of the student say in the
questionnaire and I found out that I am missing a
lot and my school marks could have been better
than what they are now. Thank you very much for
making me realize this. I will do my best to help
myself and my friend to reach our best.

After reading the result, I may consider myself
one of the people who really need help.
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Part VI Project artifacts
Students Analysis of Surveys
Students Survey analysis Young CHATTERS or Big
CHEATERS
Parents Survey analysis Dad I
NEED your HELP
Samples of Students comments on the Surveys
results
KHAWLAS Girls School Contribution
Sketch Cartoon Comment Tick Tock How they look
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Young CHATTERS
or
Big CHEATERS

• Teenagers and Internet Survey results