Social Media Harm

Private information that was previously segregated now becomes easily accessible to employers, colleagues, recruiters, and clients, among other perhaps unintended audiences” (Abril, 2012, para. 4). Yes, most social media sites attain privacy settings but one must always remember there are hiccups in everything on the internet and no guarantees leaks will not occur.

Is the threat of bullying a real threat to kids today? Bullying has been a threat for a long time in schools and adding the new advances in technology such as cell phones, twitter and facebook bullying is now being done online and school learning is being affected. Schools should have the power to limit students’ online speech because the percent of boys and girls being cyberbullied is raising, teachers teaching ability is being affected, and students learning in class is being affected. One reason schools should have the power to limit their students online speech is cyberbullying is now a problem in the United States. The Cyberbullying Research Center posted statistics in February 2010 saying 16.6% of males between the ages of 10-18 have been cyberbullied and 25.1% of females ages between 10-18 have also been cyberbullied (Doc A).

Cyberbullying is caused by poor privacy settings. Some say that teens should have the same privacy rights as adults. However, they are ignoring the fact that by giving them more privacy rights it’s giving them more of a chance to put unnecessary information out there. Once teens have more privacy rights they are more likely to get cyber bullied online. “Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass threaten, embarrass, or target another person,” and it is not safe for teens to have same privacy rights as adults do for this reason. (Kids.gov A Safe Place to Learn and Play) The importance of not giving teens that same privacy rights as adults is to help protect teens from cyberbullying. There has been over 25% of bullying in the US repeatedly

But to this day privacy is no longer private, social media has options to place posts on private to where no one else can see them but the person who had posted them. But does that stop people? No. People post whatever they don well pleased without any regard to the consequences of their actions, and people ask if they can have a little privacy. Again the answer is no. I would like to say that our society is in the webs of Pandora’s Box, Greek mythology taught us that Pandora’s Box, if open would release all evils upon your humanity. Instead of twisters, earthquakes, and hurricanes we have cyber terrorist bullies and the dreaded

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents may remember when they were kids and the bully would pick on them or their friends by stealing lunch money or just getting beat up, and that was the end of it. The victims remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused. However, these days, bullying is not just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it is happening on the Internet and on cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day with multiple bullies and thousands of kids watching. Cyberbullying follows children nonstop and into the safety of their house. Sometimes kids are afraid to inform their parents about the cyberbullying that they will think its there fault. Or that their parents will call the bullies parents or other parents, making the bullying worse. However, the effect and pain that comes from cyberbullying is real. People underestimate cyberbullying, just because it is happening online and not in person. Cyberbullying can lead to many different factors like drinking, and drugs, poor grades, depression, eating disorders. Many students have even taken their own lives because of another student saying something to them online. Cyberbullying has been taking place a lot more in middle and high schools because of the increased usage of social media networks and technology. Cyberbullying is worse and more harmful than traditional bullying.

I certainly agree with staying away from multiple social networking accounts. Not having multiple accounts will limit the chance of coming across an attacking online predator. People do not understand that whatever one posts, whether it is deleted or not, stays with you forever which can also affect job opportunities. With technology evolving, and people learning more about this world, staying far away from social media is a safe thing. Hacking is very big in this world. With certain networks as their friend, it helps hackers achieve their goal of committing identity theft. The growth of fake profiles posting false things is steadily rising and should be put to rest. Personally, I would rather put my page on private to only people I know. That would be a better and safer way to manage my

Because adolescents are growing up with more access to social networking, texting and instant messaging on various sites have become prime means of communication. While this is not necessarily bad, many people feel the need to over-share things about their personal lives online. More and more people are using Facbeook and more and more employers are using Facebook to scope out potential employees. If there are inappropriate pictures and comments all over someone’s Facebook page, they are more likely to not receive the job. Some students get in trouble for things they post on Facebook and Twitter. Some users are beginning to notice this and have started deactivating their accounts to regain a sense of privacy. CNN’s article “The anti-social network: Life without Facebook”, states that some students who are trying to maintain a professional image for future employment are deleting their pages.

As the internet becomes more popular, teenagers has a new way to bully through the web; called cyberbullying. Teenagers are super rude to one another and that they are not just doing the bullying at school; but now they are using good tool like the internet to serious harm to each other. The victims just cannot go home and feel safe and be themselves. Also be like a normal teenager and going online without having bullies there too. The bullies online are worse, since sometimes the victims do not know who the bullies are and everyone's sees it. The golden saying that “what goes on the internet stays forever, even after you deleted it”. Some people are skilled enough to find the words or pictures again. Laura Smith-Spark, a national editor for CNN and her article “Hanna Smith suicide fuels calls for action on Ask.fm cyberbullying” shows that cyberbullying not just on social media.

Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are

As of 2016 there are over 250 million Americans who have at least one social media profile and every year more and more criminals are turning to the internet to expand their illicit dealings or to divulge their controversial opinions online. So it should come to no surprise that there has also been a trend in regards to the growing number major domestic law enforcement organizations utilizing online social media and social networking services to build their intelligence. The increased surveillance of social media profiles, of course has spawned multiple debates raising the argument between civil rights and privacy

However other social media platforms such as Formspring and Twitter allow users to remain anonymous, bar the IP addresses stored on their servers. This allows users to hid behind their computers and say things that would be considered inappropriate and possibly illegal on a public stage, in the real world.

Cyberbullies have used this to their advantages by threatening people anonymously by calling them names or by sometimes by telling them to not show up at school, or to die and kill themselves. (Shah 1-2). This type of behavior is unacceptable because by bullies being able to go undercover people who might have been afraid to say something can now do so being without having to worry about being discovered. Social media is the key to all of these bullies, without the use of social media most of these bullies wouldn't even bother anybody. They would realize that they will most likely get caught or get into a fight. Most people are too afraid to do this.

There is a lot of bullying that goes on in this world, a majority of it being cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a constant problem with young kids on social media. Cyberbullying is a risk for anyone, “Cyberbullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing, or hostile information about another person. It is the most common online risk for all teens and is a peer-to-peer risk” (AAP). Nonetheless, bullying is always going to happen and cyberbullying allows it to happen

Social media. We have all heard of it. We have all raved about it at some point in our lives. There is no doubt; it plays an imperative part of people’s lives today – users are reliant on social media. It is great that Mark Zuckerberg reminds us to say, “Happy Birthday” to our friends. Yet, we have all seen the dangers it can cause. From identity fraud to cyberbullying - we become exposed to the dangers of the internet. Not only is it hackers and frauds that cause destruction, but social networking posts. Every day, you scroll through Facebook, or Instagram - liking, sharing and commenting on posts. What people don’t see is how words on a ‘status’ or ‘tweet’ can hurt someone. They can’t see that a person’s feelings behind the screens on a computer have been destroyed, because they can’t see what they don’t want to see.

As a teenager logs onto the internet for homework, the focus is lost. Why? Well, out of like infinite possibilities and opportunities of internet browsing and blogging, the teen is most likely on Facebook. Facebook, or as it was originally called www.thefacebook.com, is a website where users post and share photos, profiles, and basically anything that in a foreign world was considered “private”. Although, it is not only trendy teens surfing this site, business men marketing, musicians