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Today information and communication technology have become an integral part of our day-to-day life and everyone including the children have access to computers at home, school, and cyber cafe. There is a knowledge boom in cyberspace and information technology has made available vast academic literature relating to all streams of academics making them accessible to all and can be used for achieving academic pursuits and building careers. At the same time obscene and pornographic literature and videos are also available in cyberspace and are accessible to all irrespective of the age of the users. Generally, computers are used for different purposes such as education, communication, and entertainment. But astonishingly it is an established fact that children use computers for entertainment purposes too for pornographic sites and tender minds have the curiosity and tendency to search for such sites. These sites have a very negative impact on young minds that adversely affect their psychological and physical well-being. Further, the children use social networking, such as the internet, computers, smartphones and other communication technology devices for email, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc. But unfortunately, a good number of children are using information technology for such ulterior purposes which have the tendency to ruin them academically, physically, and psychologically. In view of this, the duty lies on parents, teachers, and guardians to make their children aware of the advantages and disadvantages of information technology.