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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

In addition, the social media allows adolescents to gain access to websites anonymously that can provide excellent means of resources for health concerns such as sexually transmitted diseases, depression, stress, and making appointments or communicating with professionals for these types of issues and concerns about them or loved ones. However, there is always a down side to the social media for our adolescents that range in sub groupings such as peer to peer, inappropriate content, privacy violations, and how third parties advertising groups that target our children due to our Like responses on social media. The number one media issue that is brought by parents today’s is cyber bullying or on-line harassment concerns for their children. This was concern by a parent in the PBS video to Mr.

The most popular social media outlets include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. As an article, The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families from the American Academy of Pediatrics states, children are at risk for “...inappropriate content; lack of understanding of online privacy issues; and outside influences of third-party advertising groups.” More specifically, inappropriate content refers to the ability for children to quickly send and receive explicit images and messages. According to “Sex and Tech: Results of a Survey of Teens and Young Adults,” about 20% of teens admitted to posting nudes of themselves. Understanding of online privacy issues refers to children to are sharing too much information that may market an individual negatively. Lastly, influences of third-party advertising refers to websites posting advertisements based on gender, age, and interests. All three of these components have consequences--emotional

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.

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Children are not developed enough to handle the immediacy of social media. Young teens believe they can get away with bullying others online because of the “privacy” social media provides. Preteens don’t understand that once something is published online it never can be erased or deleted. Soon schoolyard taunts and squabbles turn into much bigger harassment cases without the protection of teachers and parents. Everything that is posted to social media is seen by thousands of eyes in a matter of minutes, this being so most adults try to watch what they say and do on Facebook, kids on the other hand do not. Posting risque images of themselves or others is common on social media for preteens because they don’t think the photo can be traced back

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.

Too much social media and texting can be detrimental to the early developmental stages of psychological adolescence in children. Because teens are so impressionable at the first two stages of adolescence, using social media can put adolescences into risk categories such as “peer-to-peer; inappropriate content” said by the organization of pediatric publications. There is so much inappropriate content online that it can scar the psychological process of adolescence in its developmental stages. Also during the early stages of adolescence, children have just acquired minimal skills to make a limited number of rational judgements; Therefore, that exposure to some of the inappropriate content online would perturb this process. Because of this emotional imbalance, Children experience emotional maturity differently than others; Actually, the emotional development of the brain during adolescence is manipulated and centered around these judgments. Furthermore, due to “lack of understanding of online privacy issues and outside influences of third party advertising groups” (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org) children in early adolescences are prone to being cyberbullied and harassed online. If children in early stages of adolescence do not have much experience about online predators then clearly they will be susceptible to harassment and online bullying which can have unspeakable

Since the 1990s, the World Wide Web first launched, the internet has been very popular to everyone from babies that are 2-year old’s to 90-year old’s elderly people. The internet has created a new way for humans to interact in a much easier way than maybe calling someone on the phone or meeting them in person to discuss. Now we have social media such as Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and much more sites to meet and chat with people. These social media are easier to connect with your friends or coworkers that you don’t necessarily have their numbers. In college or maybe in high school you can send the paper that’s due the next day through email to the professor because you can’t make the class, before you would have to either miss a doctor’s appointment you had the next day or miss entirely the school day and get a zero on the paper for not bringing it in. But now we have this Social Construction that most people take for granted. Most people that have all these social media is because it is part of the Norms of this generation of the 21st century for a Social Group like this to all interact with some sort of social media like these.

Social-media has become a part of most college students lives, but does that affect how they do in school?

According to dictionary.com, the word media is defined as the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, that reach or influence people widely. By definition, the media is constantly swarming the public audience day-in and day-out while never coming to a halt. National and global coverage from the media is essential for all people who desire staying up-to-date with the current events that are occurring all over the world. Although there are many different forms of media, while reflecting over a three day period of how I personally use media, I have come to realize many things. Most of my observations will be discussed throughout this essay.

Everyone in this world is a part of their environment. Everything in their environment as an effect on their behaviors. The way people are using social sites like Facebook isn’t always good, that could be a reason on why some of these shootings are getting outrageous. Social media is the number one behavior changer. Social media has changed the way people shop, the way they eat, their appearance, their relationships, and the way they educate themselves. It isn’t bad in most ways but it’s the way people make it to be.

Media constantly surrounds our everyday lives whether we like to admit it or not. In some cases, it is an advertisement flashing on the T.V. or listening to the newest hit on the radio. Although we think we can control what we watch and explore, sometimes we are exposed involuntary to certain topics. Our life styles, preference, and individuality all influence what we each choose to consume and not consume. In totality, media subjects us to both involuntary and voluntary consumption and elicits a physical and mental effect on individuals who are exposed.

With the state in which our media has portrayed the definition of beauty and the wide spread of information through social platforms, we as a society have long begun to cast social pressure and shun those that does not fit the ideal image. The problem that comes with such pressure, especially within adolescents, a stage in psychology in which Erik Erikson describes as crisis during adolescence and the development of self identity (Angel Oswalt, 2010), the projection of a perfect body has lead many teenagers to develop eating disorder which according to Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD, 2012), around 95% percent with such disorders are in the ages of 12 and 25. Eating disorder is not the only problem that social media has an effect on body image, people go through extremes to achieve that ideal image, going through depression, body dysmorphic, and binge eating. Given the tremendous pressure by the society, many male and female alike feels the pressure to be at a certain shape to be part of the society. In a conducted survey of 185 students in a college setting, 58% felt pressure to be at a certain weight, 83% has dieted and 44% were at an average weight (ANAD, 2012). Bullying is a social behavior in which causes a person or group of people to harass, terrorize, intimidate or cause harm to a victim or group of victims by using superior strength and influence. With modern technology, such as computer and smartphones, being bullied are no longer confined

Ever heard of Pornography on a social networking website or any website really? This ties in on social networking in these young men and women. Most kids are exposed by such inappropriate ads, pressures, content on social networking websites (www.accap.org). Also, little social networking websites such as Ask.fm, can have people post ANY question they want (www.today.com). This means that a person can post anything referring to sex, pornography. inappropriate intentions, and more. Speaking of pressures, about 51% of girls and 24% of boys are pressured by friends or someone they don’t know to post a “sexy” message or image (www.besecure.com). Imagine that type of percent and 28,250 people who use the Internet or social networking to look up pornography. Just think of a child, a child of all people, looking up or posting such inappropriate pictures or messages on his