The 21st century is recognized as the internet era which carried with it a lot of benefits for humanity. Beyond all those benefits and what we can do with the internet, it carries other negative aspects as well. Mainly, people become more vulnerable to fraud and scams.
In this context, digital literacy is very important and crucial in the internet era. Digital literacy is a term used to describe the ability to use computers and other new digital technologies. Being literate digitally is crucial to avoid internet scams and fraud such as phishing because it helps us to understand what is possible on the internet and how to deal with different matters online.
For example, phishing is widespread through the internet and it tries to scam users to give their passwords and details to unauthorized people for fraudulent purposes. There are a lot of scams out there and they have one thing in common. They all have fraudulent purposes but in different ways. Digital literacy is beneficial in this context because it teaches people how to protect their information online in a digitalized world and how to deal with and identify those scams or fraudulent issues.
I believe that digital literacy is as important as being literate in language or any other matter in our modern world when everything is getting connected and being stored online. Furthermore, it helps eliminate illegal actions before they become unrecoverable. Digital literacy therefore should be considered for everyone regardless of age limitations.