It’s an age-old phenomena, if someone has kids they want to share their pictures and achievements with friends and family. Years ago this usually took the form of swapping stories with friends and sending grandparents photos in the mail. With the invention of social media, we can now share photos and information about our children with anyone in a matter of seconds. When I go on Facebook or Youtube, my feed is flooded with pictures and videos of people's children most of whom I don’t even know. While it is completely understandable that parents want to share how adorable their baby looks in their snowsuit or how their toddler can now say his numbers the truth is that posting children on social media has gotten out of hand. Nowadays parents can post pictures of children's personal life on Instagram and Facebook for virtually anyone to see. Youtubers film daily vlogs of their children’s life from the moment they are born, broadcasting their child's entire life for the whole world to see. The fact of the matter is that this excessive over posting has led to a breach in children’s privacy and safety and it needs to be regulated before more damage is done.
The first problem that over posting about children on social media has caused is that many children have lost their privacy without consent. One of the ways I have observed this happening is through the rise of Youtube. As an avid Youtube user, this is an issue that I notice on a daily basis. One of the most popular trends on
In the article, “The Perils of ‘Sharenting’,” Adrienne Lafrance discusses that sharing children’s identities online will have a negative effect on their privacy, self-rule, and the child-parent relationship. As a result, researchers and pedestrians are designing a public-health campaign to raise awareness of this problem. In these days, Parents put their children at risk of digital theft when they post their children's photos, videos, and quotes on social media while falsely believing that the privacy settings they are using can provide a proper safety net. Furthermore, a professor which was mentioned by Laurance claims that while posting the children's pictures expresses the parent's thoughts, the action intervenes with the children's self-determination,
Today, technology plays a vital role in daily lives and provides easy access to social media. There is currently a major debate on whether parents with social media should post personal information including stories and pictures of their children online and whether or not those posts could lead to potential consequences for their child in the future. Two articles, Learn to Avoid the Traps of “Sharenting” by James P Steyer and Still Coming to Terms With Our Digital Selves by Erika Elmuts take on this argument, informing their intended audience the dangers of posting on social media, persuading them to be more cautious of what they post online. Comparing the two articles, Elmuts is more effective in accomplishing her goal in persuading her intended audience because she presents herself as a credible, knowledgeable source, provides compelling evidence, and appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos, leading her readers to
In our 21st century, social media has a huge role in our every day lives and that places a responsibility on parents to monitor what children watch on the screen.
We share our feelings, exact locations, and activities so easily through means of social media. These types of posts generally give away too much personal information which can further result in safety issues. Privacy isn’t such a big deal for teenagers now. They don’t realize the implications that comes with posting all of their life details.. This is where privacy needs to be of greater demand to keep children’s lives and secrets safe.
Even with the dangerous developments in social media over the past several years, many parents have chosen to allow their children to use these sites despite age restrictions. There are three reasons to argue for age restrictions on social media sites: lack of supervision by parents, targeting of children by pedophiles, and the prevalence of children falsifying their age. The ability of pedophiles to conceivably target children with social media proves that this is an issue that parents need to examine so that they may better protect their children. The threat from pedophiles causes an enormous problem for millions of children on social media sites. Unfortunately, Western Daily Press states that “Pedophiles can get away with grooming young teenagers on social media sites.” My essay will argue that age restrictions need to be in place, and additional regulations should ensure that law enforcement agencies have the tools required to supervise underage children 's use of social media, including Facebook and Twitter. Quoting from Business Wire, “three out of four parents feel that social network sites are not protecting children.” According to Irish Independent, “four out of ten children falsify their age” when using social media. I will also argue that additional research on this topic can be used to raise the awareness of parents, and can also help to alert the children themselves to the danger. My essay will also examine questions, such as: How can social media sites protect
Hook. Background. Amy Webb discusses the security of online data by focusing on her friends and their child “Kate” as well as her decisions with her husband about what to post and what not to post about their own daughter. In the article “We Post Nothing about Our Daughter Online” by Amy Webb, the author cleverly uses labeling, pathos, and rhetorical analogies to argue her opinion that parents should not post personal information about their kids on social media.
Theres two problems children are facing and parents included. Children shouldn’t be allowed to be on social media at the age of six between fourteen. They shouldn’t be allowed to because young children don’t have the age because they won’t be able to know what’s going on social media. I think it’s a bad idea letting your children
Today’s society is becoming a very dangerous situation for both children and adults. There are people who post their entire life stories on Snapchat, Instagram, and through many other social media apps. What the consequences that portray if one displays too much information on social media can potentially be horrific to oneself. In The Flip Side to Internet Fame by Jessica Bennett, displays Ghyslain Raza who was in high school recorded a funny video of himself reenacting a scene from Star Wars; there was another student who had gotten ahold of that video and published it for everyone to view. From having the video publicized on the internet will now stay with him for a lifetime: “But Google his name today, and the first entry has the word
Every 4 out of 5 minors do not utilize privacy settings on their social media. Meaning their accounts are completely open to the public and entirely accessible to complete strangers. It is a very taboo topic to talk about but sex offenders can be stalking and waiting on any minor social media. Many minors tend to share anything and close to everything about their lives on their social media. Due to this fact most of them do not apply privacy settings whilst oversharing and posting personal information, giving enormous amounts of access to these sexual predators, therefore putting these minors at great risk. Although , there are some minors that use social media appropriately and properly. But, even those few Instagram accounts or tumblr blogs that belong to minors do seem to be used exactly the way they should be, they still aren’t being smart. There are famous blogs and youtube channels belonging to minors that are plastered all over the internet. These minors are not being completely safe. They are sharing and posting some very personal information to their 24K followers with no regard to practicing safety at
Society now and more than ever captures most of their life’s greatest and most unforgettable moments on camera. While the biggest perk of all is the ability to share these moments with distance love one’s and friends. Social media sites and apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram makes photo and message sharing feasible. Anyone can upload all their kids memorable moments to social media profiles. As a result distance will never present a dilemma for families and friends, now a school play, funny home video, or birthday never have to be missed. Amy Web, author of “We Post, Nothing About Our Daughter Online”, unveiled the detrimental impacts social media possess in a child's future. Furthermore,
Society now and more than ever captures most of their life’s greatest and most unforgettable moments on camera. While the biggest perk of all is te ability to share these moments with distance love one’s and friends, because they cannot be relived. Social media websites and apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram makes photo and message sharing feasible. Anyone can upload all their kids memborable moments to social media profiles. As a result distance will never present a problem for families and friends, now a play, funny home video, or birthday never have to be missed. Amy Web author of “We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online” reveled the detrimental impacts social media possess on a childs future. Futhermore, she commenting that the most effective way for parents to prevent their children from being exploited is the to reframe from all digital uploads to Facebook and other popular media sites.
Unfortunately, children are also exposed to a world where their personal information can be available to people around the world, and they might be threatened or intimidated by others. Youngwood is aware of the fact that parents cannot isolate their children from the digital world. Therefore, he recommends parents to stay updated with latest technologies to supervise their
Despite the fact that we’re already in the 21st century, society continues to show signs of progress and development strongly leaning towards the direction of advancement, constantly evolving. This pattern is no different from the world of advertising, as it has also evolved through the years and quite recently an unexpected technological innovation took the world by storm. It made such a tremendous impact that eventually led to the transformation of traditional marketing, and it’s no other than social media that we all learned to love.
Social Media plays a huge and major key role with our lives as human beings in this day and age of the 21st century. The role that social media plays is that millions of people could connect and meet all over the world on one website or one app to meet others of the same interest, and other topics that they enjoy or love such as video games, reading, board games, mathematics, etc. . Horrifically, over the years criticism began on the dawn of social media has caused a spread of rumors, fear, and disgust into these social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, parents worry about their children's protection and fear that one wrong post could spell disaster for the family of the child. Families have proposed that adult link protection should be linked onto children’s social media to watch them to make sure that they don't look or do mischievous or horrific acts to other older or of the same age, but i believe that with this thesis and action of choices, we could make the internet a safer and child friendly place or all. Three ideas that could help with supporting my thesis is 1. Sort social media by age groups and types of cultures, 2. Have people not be able to post their location or address without extensive security question and material, and 3 make usernames and passwords for social media websites more secure, and to protect people's valuable information from criminals.
The project aim at teenagers, therefore sample group is between 13 to 19. I will set the sample sizes in 50 participants since it is easy to identity and more precision. If a sample sizes increase, it is very hard to estimate and become not accurate. Also, I’m worry about the extremes data can’t make a balance out, so the project prefers small sample sizes. It can take less effort to gain and maintain people, it is easy to produce significant results and comfortable to find a group of people. I will obtain samples from friends or friends’ sister and brother.