Influences online Harmes to children, adolescence Star warns

Posted: March 17, 2025

Online dangerous influences could damage their children, warns the actor

By the collaborator of Movieguide®

How much do your child affect online influences?

Stephen Graham stars in the adolescence of the Netflix series, who deals with the sequels of a 13 -year -old boy Jamie Miller accused of killing a classmate. The actor draws parallel from influences on Jamie’s behavior for those who affect children in real life.

Graham, who plays the defendant’s father, Eddie, also served as co -manager of the series and wanted to explore the role that Internet and Incel (involuntary) culture has in the youth today after listening to two incidents in which a boy stabbed a girl.

“(I) f I am really honest with you, (those stories) hurt my heart.” Graham said Independent.

This led him to create the story of Jamie, who raises the question: “What external forces could lead to someone who comes from a” normal family “to kill?”

“Who is to blame? Who is responsible? “The answer is not simple.” Maybe we are all family responsible, schools, society, community, environment, “Graham saying.

The series should serve as a call for attention to parents to be aware of what they are talking about in the lives of their children, he believes.

“It’s just being aware of the fact that we not only introduce ourselves to our children, and not just the school educates our children,” the father of two saying. “But there are also influences that we have no idea that it has deep effects on our young culture, deep, positive and extremely negative effects.”

He went to the easy access of children to the Internet through mobile devices as one of those influences.

“When we were children, if they sent you to your room or if Kenny Everett was on television, and got a little spicy, they would send you to your room and then you couldn’t see it,” he, “he.” saying. “But today even within the context of that house, when boys and girls go to their rooms, they have the world at their fingertips.”

There are links between violence and social networks, it suggests recent studies.

Propublic aforementioned that homicides rose 30% in 2020.

“Criminologists point out a confluence of factors, including social interruptions caused by COVID -19, the increase in sales of weapons at the beginning of pandemic and uproar after the murder of George Floyd, which, in many cities, led to a decrease in police activity and a greater erosion of confidence in the police.” wrote Alec Macgillis.

But social networks can have a factor in increasing violence.

“Violence prevention workers described disputes that began on Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms and exploded in real life with a terrifying speed,” Macgillis added.

James Timpson, a violence prevention in Baltimore, said that disputes between young people involved only a few people, the days of the pre-social media today explode a hundred times due to social networks and mobile devices.

“Five hundred people know even before leaving school. And then you have this great war, “Timpson explained.

Finding an online community with similar struggles and ideologies can reinforce negative and even violent behaviors as well.

An extreme example is the case of Jake Davison, who killed five people before committing suicide in Plymouth, England, including her mother and a three -year -old girl. Before becoming himself, he was part of the online community “incel.”

Dominic Adamson, a lawyer who represents three of the victims’ families, saying“He had explored mass murders on numerous occasions and referred to idolized people in the Incel community to perpetrate mass murders.”

In an interview with the BBC, a man they called “Liam” was asked, who is active in the Incel community, if their negative feelings towards women are the result of their time in these online communities. He says he cannot say with certainty that they are related, but adds that they are probably connected.

“It’s what these communities are,” Liam saying. “You stink so that you get in this echo chamber of people who experience similar problems.”

“You think a little one (thing) … then you make others think much more radical things. Then you think that small things are acceptable, ”Liam continued.