A smartphone, or smart phone, is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones, it’s a is a device that lets you make telephone calls, but also adds features that you might find on a personal digital assistant or a computer. A smartphone also offers the ability to send and receive e-mail and edit Office documents, for example. Modern smartphones include all of those features plus the features of a laptop, including web browsing, Wi-Fi, and 3rd-party apps and accessories.While there is no standard definition of the term “smartphone” across the industry, there are a few features that you’ll find on every smartphone

Parents are advised to set to their children about how they use their smartphones. Many parents are out of touch with the dangers faced by their children on tablets and smartphones.
Almost one in five children said they had seen something on their devices that had upset them. A separate study found that just over 20% of parents do not monitor what their children are doing online.
Parental controls
Unfortunately, none of us – of whatever age – is immune from encountering problems online. But, we can avoid them by learning how to deal with threats and online bullying, we can prevent online harassment by being more technologically trained.
Without using controls such as built-in security, safety and privacy features and search engine filters, children will almost certainly run into something that really isn’t appropriate for their age, or any age. It is the duty and the right for parents to uphold their position of being the “protective” one over their children, unsupervised usage of smartphone is a worldwide sickness- a child can easily sneak-out for a few minutes just to be online pretending to be doing else.
Teenagers aged 13-16 were more vulnerable to being bullied online than those aged 8-12.
Parents were not often as aware of the dangers of using the internet on tablets and smartphones as they were with PCs. When children use mobile devices to access the web, they are using the same internet, with the same risks. There is a common misconception that smartphones and tablets don’t need the same level of protection as a PC, but with such a high percentage of parents not having a clear view of their children’s online activity, this way of thinking needs to change now. Access to certain apps or websites can be blocked completely or restricted to age appropriate content. Restricted profile accounts can also be set up on Android smartphones and tablets, some of Apple’s devices like the ipad and iphone have restrictions, or parental controls, that can be set using a passcode. The same goes for Samsung products too. However, most parents don’t know cannot use the devices themselves. I think the on-going OLPF programme will help some parents to become more trained so that online monitoring will become easier.
Apple was recently told to refund US $32.5M to parents whose children had made purchases without their parents’ consent. Adults were also being warned to stay safe online as Microsoft released its annual online consumer safety research. The software giant recommended that users set PINs for their mobile phones and strong passwords for online accounts.
Online (Cyber-bullying) suicide:

Bullying is not new but thanks to the Internet teens are now being bullied at home. Online harassment, more often called cyber-bullying, is a serious problem. When bullying comes home via the Internet it can leave victims feeling helpless and overwhelmed.
What is Cyber-bullying?
Cyber-bullying is any harassment that occurs via the Internet. Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites, and mean or cruel email messages are all ways of cyber-bullying.

A few days ago, people in Italy called for action against cyber bullying after a 14-year girl, subjected to online abuse, killed herself .She had gone on the social network seeking sympathy after breaking up with a boyfriend. She jumped to her death from a high-rise building.
“Kill yourself,” “Nobody wants you” and “You are not normal” were some of the anonymous replies she received.
For some time she had been posting messages that suggested she might be suicidal. She appeared to have stopped posting about a week before she died.
Where do I see myself living five years from now?” she wrote in one entry. “Me living five years from now. Wow”
The girl, whose real name was given as Nadia, left messages for her family in the town of Fontaniva, near Padua, but they were unable to reach her in time.
At one point, Nadia posted photos of cuts she said she had made to her arms. It appears she planned her death carefully, leaving five letters to family and friends.
Let’s try our best to end online harassment, put a step forward to engage ourselves in becoming more acquainted with the devices and applications that come with them so as to stamp out online predators.