Facebook Should Not Be Accessible Children Under 13

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

Do you think under twelves are disconnected? Well, according to the article "Are Under Twelves Disconnected?," Facebook has changed the way people communicate. Social media can expose children to cyberbullying, non-age appropriate content, lying about their age and much more. Some ways social media can benefit children in letting them keep up with their friends life, it allows kids to connect with kids they have things in common with, and it can help kids speak out about charities or raise awareness for important causes. Children under the age of thirteen shouldn't be allowed on Facebook and other social media sites because they can be exposed to inappropriate content.

The article was written by Diana Graber on December 8, 2014. This article was written to show why age restrictions on social media matter. Diana’s audience is parents of children of why they should wait until the age limit of certain social media sites. Diana’s article gave insight on why age matters when it comes to your kids having a social media account. The article is about a girl named Rebecca and the study of children and social media. Rebecca was just twelve years old when she decided to end her life due to cyberbullying. The victim and the two bullies were underage using social media. The story shows that both the victim and the bullies were not ready to have a social media account. Rebecca's bullying took place on Facebook, Ask.fm,

Children Shouldn't be allowed on Facebook under fourteen Do you think that children should be allowed on Facebook under fourteen? The internet can be very cruel sometimes. In this essay I will be using textual evidence to prove my point, that children under fourteen shouldn't be on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the creators of Facebook, thinks that the age to have a Facebook account should be lowered to under thirteen. I oppose this because Facebook has many problems that can harm children like negative comments, cyber bullying, and teasing.

In recent years the world has become very accepting; some might even go as far as to say overly accepting to the convenience of social media. There are a number of different applications, and websites that are available to us for example: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and Pinterest to name a few. These different venues provide a means of communication, reconnecting with long-lost friends and family, networking for business, as well as it is an outlet for self-expression. But just like anything else that is put to good use; there are those who abuse these privileges. More often than not it is the children how suffer from the misuse of having the World Wide Web so easily available to all. With the emergence of catfishing, privacy intrusion, and cyber bullying; children are facing some serious dangers. The minimum age to open an account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Kik, and Snapchat is 13. For Vine, Tinder and Yik Yak it 's 17. YouTube requires account holders be 18, but a 13-year-old can sign up with a parent 's permission. Despite these clearly stated and published age restrictions, large and growing numbers of children 12 and under are using social media networks, often with their parent 's knowledge and consent. (Graber, D. 2014). This essay is being presented to argue the need for better reinforcement of age restrictions on social media.

There is no doubt that technology today, and the use of the internet is an outstanding resource, when it is used appropriately. Today’s society consists of many young bloggers, video- bloggers, and a ton of social media (networking) users. One of the biggest social media sites used for interaction among peers, and families, is Facebook. Facebook became popular instantly as a social media site in which you can share your thoughts, opinions, photos, and videos with friends, and family. To register for Facebook the required age is 13 years old, and one can register by entering a birthdate; with no questions asked, a click of a button, and an agreement to

As a young fourteen year old opens up her laptop she logs on to the well known social media site we all know, Facebook. As the child scrolls down her news feed filled with bullying, adult content, and drugs she suddenly gets a new message from a handsome fellow named john. The naive girl has no idea that "John" is actually a 54 year old pedophile lurking through the web for his next young victim. In this day and age social media consumes people’s lives. Many argue what age should kids be allowed to enter the world of Facebook. Although letting young teens on social media familiarizes them with the internet, the required age to be on Facebook should be sixteen because kids are immature and are more susceptible to predators when online.

There are things in the great world of Facebook that kids should not be exposed to at a young age, and it also can get quite annoying to older people who are using Facebook the way that it’s intended to be used. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate student, who was into creating websites. He started off with making a website that permitted students to see what classes their friends were in, so that they could see their friends in the class and want to join also. Later he wanted to transform his idea to an even greater website that would transform the world of social networking forever. He made a website that connected Harvard students to each other, in which he called Thefacebook. Thefacebook quickly spread

The world we live in today is being constructed by the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web contains infinite amounts of information and infinite networks. These so called networks are constantly being used to people’s advantage because it makes communication faster than the speed of light. Nowadays, as a worldwide culture we are saturated into different types of social media. These different types of social media, control our daily lives whether we like it or not. Social media is a world on its own, it is created by different networks in the World Wide Web. It allows us to do various tasks besides communicating with a relative or colleague. Social media has expanded in a tremendously large magnitude in such a short amount of time period, and still to this day it continues to evolve as if it belongs to its own species. Although, many people use social media every day, it can play a negative and positive role depending on what the social media is being used for. The World Wide Web can be a very dangerous place, especially towards young kids and young adults who are still developing skills for their futures. One of the largest known social media site nowadays is Facebook. Facebook is one of the largest corporations when it comes to the social media world. Facebook is widely known for its popularity and its constant development. It currently surpasses any other social media apps or websites to this day. It is by far a revolutionary network.

In recent years the world has become very accepting; some might even go as far as to say overly accepting to the convenience of social media. There are a number of different applications, and websites that are available to us for example: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and Pinterest to name a few. These different venues provide for us a means of communication, reconnecting with long-lost friends and family, networking for business, as well as it is an outlet for self-expression. But just like anything else that is put to good use; there are those who abuse these privileges. More often than not it is our children how suffer from the misuse of having the World Wide Web so easily available to all. With the emergence of catfishing, privacy intrusion, and cyber bullying; children are facing some serious dangers. The minimum age to open an account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Kik, and Snapchat is 13. For Vine, Tinder and Yik Yak it 's 17. YouTube requires account holders be 18, but a 13-year-old can sign up with a parent 's permission. Despite these clearly stated and published age restrictions, large and growing numbers of children 12 and under are using social media networks, often with their parent 's knowledge and consent. (Graber, D. 2014) This essay is being presented to argue the need for better reinforcement of age restrictions on social media.

The first time many people engage in the usage of social media is during their teenage years. Many individuals turn to social media for factual information and later discover what they read or seen wasn’t true. This is because yellow journalism publications provide false information, and when it's later corrected not as many people are informed because the media has moved on to another event. Social media has a fear to many people because the National Security Agency can monitor social media activity and read private messages by simply entering a person’s username into their system. Social media is a business and interrupts personal privacy. Social media is a problem.

The advancements in technology have created a cyber world that has practically integrated itself into the daily lives of millions of people around the world. Social networking sites provide many benefits from simple entertainment, the basic principle of increasing social skills, to the ability make a living and run a business through the Internet. The numerous benefits of social media will always retain bad publicity for their susceptibility for online predators and identity theft. The downfall of social media is the safety and protection of the users, but most importantly of our youth. Social networking sites create an unsafe environment for children who are naïve of the dangers of the world.

Kids today spend an average of 7 hours a day on social media,“At ages 7 to 11, children are still thinking very concretely, and they haven’t yet developed the ability to consider hypothetical situations,” explains Lisa Strohman, Ph.D. So an 8 year old girl posting a video about how to do her hair is just thinking, ‘My friends will see this and it will be great!’ She can’t take that next step and think about who else might watch that video and write mean comments or even repost it and use it to sell hair products.” Children under the age of 13 should not be using social media because it damages not only the person they are but also the brain.

Other than affecting morality, media also provokes danger to society. As our times modernize many people get to experience the ease of technology. One example is the accessible communication between the communities, like social networking sites. As most people, hundreds of millions of people are now active users of Facebook and Twitter. This medium definitely attracts danger to users by sharing of information, scams, and even cyber bullying. Given approval of this fact, a 2010 Consumer Reports article says that “25% of people using

Facebook is an open book to someone’s life depicting personal information, such as addresses, ages, interests, family relations, and full names along with pictures. To a child this breach of personal information is catastrophic due to child predators that use this information to seduce a child into false comfort. “Kids have always been exposed to risk, to embarrassing themselves, to making bad judgment calls, but never before have those mistakes been so public and so permanent” (Dominus 99-91). Most of the information posted to this site is available online indefinitely, which to a child is harmful due to the fact their maturity isn’t high enough to understand what’s acceptable and what’s not, by the time this