Internet And The Development Of Teenagers' Personality

Abstract Internet is developing rapidly. It has begun to change the style of life, work and learning, make the relationship of individuals and between individual and society. even change the way of man抯 thinking. The number of teenagers is quite large among the web members. As an electric society, internet consists of many different kinds of environment. The environment influences the forming and development of teenagers?personality directly. According to the psychological clues, beginning with analyzing the internet environment, the paper confirmes first that internet has important positive factors in the development of teenagers?personality: the direct and objective feature makes the observing learning more easier and makes the speed of acculturation more fast; the feature of interaction meets the needs of teenagers, thus innovate the development of teenagers?personality; the cyber feature makes the oneness more perfect, thus reduces fear and anxiety of being a social member; the open-up web makes itself a place where teenagers can give vent to and show themselves, thus keeps their personality healthy. While confirming the positive, we should realize the negative factors. The main are: the on-line information meets the needs, but teenagers are easy to be dedict; Though information is rich, there are two much information, including the useful and unusefuil, good and bad, right and wrong. So there is too much confusing information, Internet has become a place of value viewpoints conflit. In addition, there is too much sexual information that can do teenagers great harm. 111 ~j 晘~棏- MASTERS THESIS Because of the negative factors, some educational countermeasures are mentioned in the paper. At first educators should change the views and respect the needs and choices of teenagers. As an educator, we should be familiar with internet. In the educational process, educators must make use of the positive and get rid of the negative. Especially in the internet environment, educators should guide teenagers to select right and useful information with a scientific brain, thus improve the competence of self-studying and self-educating. By emotion and examples, educators enhance teenagers?resisting and anti-corrupting ability, making their personality wonderful and healthy.