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Cyber Ethics for Students and Youth

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Parental Guidelines

  Cyber Cafes and Online Games

 
Some students and young adults often stay overnight at cyber cafes playing online games.

Some online games are designed in reference to the physical world we live in, but with some imaginative twists. Games containing unhealthy messages, such as phrases used by the Triad Society, will probably have a bad impact on children and young adults.
Real Case Scenario
"Super Weapon"
A 16 year old student committed suicide after his virtual "super weapon" was stolen while playing an online game... 
Online Games Kill
In recent months, a 29 year old man was declared dead in a Yuen Long cyber cafe after playing online games for 6 continuous hours;