Social Networking Is A Popular Form Of Communicating With Friends Around The World

By restricting access and deterring inappropriate use. Children and young people still seem to experience some possible risks. Such as, contact with people not known to them and cyber-bullying. Which emphasises just two safeguarding issues derived from the national concerns highlighted from the e- safety policy. Therefore, to give a fuller picture of safeguarding issues more research would be beneficial. However, as stated by EUKGO (2014) not all contact young people have with people not already known to them is bad.so by restricting a child’s use of communication sites could result in lost opportunities for children and young people to socialise. Therefore, as suggested by Byron, (2014) approaching on-line risks the same as offline risks will take into consideration the bigger picture of how the internet affects the child when they are on-line and off line.as the quote from the 12 year old girl showed, in the EUKGO 2014 “It’s easier to say horrible stuff about people on [the Internet]. It got really horrible in Year 10. Lots of people were being bullying over [the Internet]. It gets brought into school. When friends do this, it’s horrible. It makes you really upset. You don’t want to go into school

In the article, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, the author Danah Boyd states that “trapped by helicopter parents and desperate to carve out a space of their own, teens need a place to make mistakes”. Teens should be allowed to go online and go on social media without their parents freaking out. Yes, there are dangers to going online as there are dangers to everything. There is technology everywhere, teens can go online wherever and whenever they want, it's inevitable. Teens access to the internet and to going online is a great resource and is very helpful, so why try and take that away?

Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea but, then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete safety with his or hers teen/teens. The intended audience for this article is parents with teenagers or kids who have access to the internet, now assuming the author has teens of his their would be some connection made with the audience their.

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

Parents and schools play a critical role in the growing period of the child. The concern and exhortation from parents and schools are the most important factor that prevents teens from addicting to network and causing cyberbullying. “Fifth-one coded statements from stakeholders stated that children could gain access to online environments through a series of gate way” (Martin 169). Adolescents can connect to the network through a variety of methods, so it is impractical to warn only in schools.

The excessive utilization of technology in today’s society is a major contributing factor to distraction among the general population, consequently exposing our youth to adult-like subjects. The exaggeration of social networking sites alone, has led parents to disregard their routine obligations, therefore setting bad examples for their children and ignoring the responsibility of remaining great parental role models. Our technological advances have significantly promoted the ease of utilization of all the current social media sites. Once upon a time we chatted online, emailed and surfed the web with only the use of a computer. In today 's modern world there are hand held devices such as cell phones and tablets, with a simple swipe of the touch screen your entire account is accessible. Over the past 10-15 years, many new social networks have been created and they seem to gradually become more appealing to the average human. Every time a new website is customized, the contents are more advanced than the last, making communication almost effortless, allowing for more rapid use. "Around 59 percent of children have already used a social network by the time they are ten, and 43 percent have messaged strangers online by the age of twelve"(Williams 1). Caretakers need to start being more observant to the dangers that their kids are facing and monitor their use, so that they are able to appropriately instill safety guidelines. An

Parents have you really explored and gained knowledge of what these social site exact offer to our pre teen girls? There are so many social media site such as Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, Google Plus, Messager, Instragram, Tango, and the list goes on. On these site teens are sharing their personal information, for instance, given their name, birthday, location, pictures, and notes of their every move.

If one is the parent of a middle or high school student, there is a probability that one’s child is either engaged in, or spectator to, online behavior that you would find alarming and un-easing. For many teens though this behavior has become just another challenge of youth, and another facet of their lives that parents either don't know about or feel as though they cannot understand to the child’s full potential.

The latest video games, social sites, blogs, and etc. seem to catch most teens’ attentions these days. It may be safe to say that parents can rarely find their child without at least one interactive social media of some sort. Parents worry their child is online for too long, the internet may deprive teens of social skills needed in face to face conversation, or the internet is a place full of exposure to the cruelty of harsh harassment from peers, better known as cyberbullying. But with most negatives comes a positive and the internet seems to be one of negatives that come with a positive feature as well. These online communities are good sources for teenagers because of the encouragement they give teens to expand their variety of friends while exploring and learning the necessity of a healthy relationship.

Just because one protects ones computer, hardware, and software from exposure to viruses, cyber spying, and spam, one can still be at risk to another social network site problem and that is a false sense of privacy. When using the Internet we often develop this false sense or anonymity by thinking no one can see who we are and what we are doing. Doug Fodeman and Marje Monroe (Fodeman, Monroe) discuss this false sense of privacy that users of social network sites experience in a web article titled “The Impact of Facebook on Our Students" that they recently published for the National Association of Independent Schools. The web article attempts to explain why many students post embarrassing, humiliating, threatening, and hurtful content in text, blogs, photos, and videos. The fact that most users feel anonymous and secure in their home, leads to a false sense of privacy. Various adults are looking at student profiles, pictures, and videos. This could range from a professor, teacher or parent to their future boss, prison inmate, or local registered sex offender. Nothing one posts on the Internet is 100% secure. Once this data is released, it is

The privacy issues surrounding social networking sites are nothing new by any stretch of the imagination, but it seems that many people have mismatched expectations when it comes to privacy and social networks. Social

To start, it is important to understand what social media is and how it works. Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, the authors of “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” state, “We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within a system” (211). This quote shows that social media sites allow people to keep in touch with people who are friends with one another. According to Hampton et al. and Pew Research Center, the authors of “Social Networking Sites and Our Lives” and "Social Networking Fact Sheet" state, social networking sites grew drastically since the launch of the sites. Only 26% of

Although the internet is a wonderful thing, it can get people into a lot of trouble, which is why I think kids and teenagers need to have their internet usage be closely supervised. Their online activity should not be unavailable to adults. Supervision needs to happen not only to prevent cyberbullying, but also to help thwart teens from viewing pornography (or other age inappropriate material), and stop unnecessary drama from happening. Oversharing through social media creates gossip and leads to drama, “which involves acting out and other types of emotional display.” (Agger, 2012, p. 5) Kids today don’t need that added anxiety in their lives. Our youth is already overly anxious to reach adulthood, so it is imperative that parents and adults help preserve their

Social Networking Sites: The tragic case of Ashleigh Hall's murder in 2009 after befriending her attacker on a social networking site has led to a heightened public awareness of the dangers of the Internet and in particular social networking sites. Children should be reminded no to put personal such as telephone numbers, photographs or email addresses online. They should also limit other information such as school name, clubs they attend, where they meet up etc, as this kind of information can be easily pieced together to gain an insight into their lives. Children may not have considered that by putting their personal information online it also becomes accessible to individuals other than their friends. Social networking sites can be easily

The Internet should not be eligible to teenagers younger than thirteen-years-old. Parents must have a block on the Internet for their kids to keep them safe from talking to strangers on chat rooms. There have been many cases where they go and meet this “kid”, and find out that they are an Internet predator. It’s sad to see children so young thinking that they’re talking to a kid their age, when in reality, it’s somebody who wants to hurt them and take their innocence away. Parents and teacher need to work together to end this violence against social media.