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First of all the term Internet can be defined as the worldwide system of computer networks in which every user of computer can have an access to the information with the permission to the access from other computers. (http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com, 2011) It is a modern tool for communication, exchanging the information, e-mail, pictures, video and music. The creation of the Internet was crucial for human being because it joined all types of telecommunication such as telephone, radio and television into one and also created new types of communication such as online text messages, video chatting and location detection that allows finding the current place of the user. The information on the Internet is added by Internet users themselves so that everyone can watch and download it. The simplicity of using the Internet is attracting more and more people in all over the world and the popularity of the Internet is growing even among the youngest aged group of people. To this extent the variety of the information online and vast amount of opportunities provided by websites especially attract children due to their curiosity to know and learn more about the world. However, it is important to mention the positive and negative influence of the Internet on children’s development overall in order to protect children from the possibly risks of the Internet misuse and to help children to use all the opportunities of the Internet in a proper way.

The reputation of the Internet use among young children made a lot of researchers conduct the amount of time spent on the Internet by children and overall number of children using the Internet. According to Demner (2001) main reasons to use the Internet for children are entertainment aims ...

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