  Since the end of 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as COVID-19 has spread
rapidly around the world, forcing many governments to impose restrictive
blocking or lockdown to combat the pandemic. With locomotion restriction of
people in almost of countries of the world, workers and students needed to keep
their activities at home. As a result, people's behavior, habits, and the way
they started using the Internet changed significantly. Like professionals of
offices, the younger played an important role in this behavior, especially in
the type of resources used by them. As result, the characterization and traffic
of communication networks were affected in some way. In this perspective
article, we join from many available studies about the COVID-19 effect at
networks and investigate the effects on the Internet traffic of using services
such as video streaming, video conferencing, and gaming during 2020's months of
the pandemic.
