Should Parents Limit The Use Of Social Media By Teens?

“Bed time in 10 minutes” says mom (10 minutes later) “It's bed time” says mom.“Let me just watch one more episode” the daughter replies.

Social media is a huge trend right now, in fact over 78% of Americans have some type of social media profile. Everyone is “instagramming”, “snapchatting”, and yes still “facebooking”. This includes young 11 and 12 year olds, who use it more often than those above the age of 18. I believe minors should not be allowed to have any form of social media because minors do not know how to use it properly nor do they know how to protect themselves while using it. Middle and high schoolers are very immature for social media unlike adults. Middle schoolers and high schoolers think social media is used to post selfies and obtain ridiculous amounts of followers or subscribers. Adults often use their social media to connect with distant friends and family, which

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.

About 80% of teenagers today, have social media and approximately 40% of social media is used for communicating. Some of the popular social sites today may include Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook. I believe minors should be allowed to have social media because it has become a major part of today’s way of living by entertainment and has become a major form of communication.

Although cell phones can be a distraction in school because of social media, they come to a good cause if teachers actually look at it. Phones can be in a good cause because, when students go on field trips. The students would be able to capture field trip memories and post them on social media, the school could have a school website and the students would be able to post that to the website. Students would be able to imagine Historical figures and how it is used. Students would be able to research and look up things like pictures on instagram they have there on pages for Historical events. When students are in science they can record science steps and post, then instagram so people could get the video off of them and try them.

People have used cell phones since they first came out, and many people can go using them all night without getting enough.I believe minors should use social media because it's how everyone communicates and know what's going on in the world.

“Mom and Dad there’s something I have to tell you.” Many kids around the world have been pick on social media. This is about how people agree with the idea of that individuals should be prosecuted for statements on social media. Kids that get picked on the social media is call “Cyberbullying”. This is tell how kids on social media get hurt or hurt themselves.

Over four years only 24 percent of fourteen to seventeen year olds have said they had participated in sending naked photos, while only 33 percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds had reported (Hudson, Heather K., 2011), but due to the 91 percent of children aged thirteen to seventeen that have a device that allows them to access the internet (PewResearchCenter, 2013), parents are panicking. The paranoia is resulting in parents requesting the passwords to their children’s devices and social media accounts, installing apps that limit and control what their child is doing online, and parents believing online stories about ‘secret messages’. Apps such as ‘Bark’ (Bark Technology, 2017) allow parents to be notified when it detects any inappropriate or harmful behaviour. There also multiple other apps that parents have access to if they are worried about their teenager’s social media activity. There are also “guides to sexting” (Independent, 2017) which parents use to “decode” their children’s text messages. For example, ‘WTTP’ apparently stands for “want to trade pictures?”. Parents are exaggerating sexting as an issue that is a lot more common and breaking boundaries of trust between them and their

In this day and age, relationships between teens and parents are usually a little broken to some extent. A lot of teens, including myself, feel that my parents have NO idea what I am going through or what it is like to grow up in my time. However, sometimes we forget that even though our parents are old, ha, they did also grow up and they went through a lot of the same things we are going through. Many students seek clinical counseling and request to have information that they are telling the counselor to be kept confidential, even from parents. Now this raises many issues because as a parent, you love your child and want to know what it is that is going on with them. Parents want to know different ways to help their child but cannot help if they do not know what is going on with them. But on the other side of that, sometimes teens do not want to be treated as children by their parents. Sometimes, teens feel embarrassed about how they are feeling and even more embarrassed about explaining those emotions to someone so close in their life. As a

Have you ever seen what social media is showing your kids? Well it could be the cause of many dangerous things your kids do today. But it shouldn't be social medias one to blame. Kids do stuff thats dangerous all the time even when it’s not from social media or if there doing it for social media. There is more to social media than showing dangerous things.

When it comes to teens using the Internet and social media applications, there are many opinions people have in regards to security, privacy, and addiction for these luxuries. It seems that every day, I see news articles, blogs, and other posts about teens and the way they use the Internet. Mainly, the concern that parents need to have in order to protect their children from being personally identified or having an addiction to apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. When reading this book, I found that this whole concept of teens using this type of network goes deeper than people may think.

Minors and social media is a big concern today but we need to understand the background information of how minors use it, and how it has helped them to make a living out of it without struggles. In addition, some minors don't understand the dangers of it and why its important to be precautious when it comes to living in the internet world, because it can harm them permanently. I believe that minors should have access to social media for things that may help them throughout life.

One reason that my friend should be concerned about their daughter's media use is that adolescents who spend a lot of time on the Internet not only are less likely to spend time in physical activity causing detrimental effect on physical health, but also by devoting excessive time to maintaining online friendships, such as facebook, can trigger depression. One reason that my friend should not be concerned about how much time their daughter spend on the social media based on the lecture is that it seems that this is something very common between teens; 24% of adolescents used the media and the internet almost constantly, and 56 % of adolescents used the media and the internet several times a day. Also, it might be an efficient means for teens

When parents have problems and don’t want their kids to know, they turn to friends for advice. They can discuss about grownup things like life issues, marital problems, or children problems. When teens have problems and doesn’t want their parents to get involved or know,

From having good grades, to studying for the ACT, in addition to trying to fit into the social aspect in high school a teens life has never been more hard. And the invention of the smartphone has only added to the amount of stress that a teen has to deal with. The smartphone has created an environment in which adolescents are always connected with those they go to highschool with, through the use of social media. For example if a bully were to be picking on a student at school the student could not just go home and forget about the incident, but now the bully has the ability to abuse that student at any point he/she desires. These types of incidents are creating a new wave of problems for adolescents and their parents, Nojiri Matthew interviewed Rick Wolf (assistant superintendent at Mifflin School district) explaining “The increase in social media use has added another element when identifying and caring for kids dealing with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and other mental health disorders, Wolf said” (Wolf). The smartphone is the catalyst to these problems. If you were to take away the smartphone problems such as cyberbullying would be less of an issue. However adolescents these days are given smartphones at such a young age, with no supervision on how long they use it throughout the day, that it becomes second nature to be looking at it every minute of everyday checking their social media profiles.