The Dangers Of Teenagers For Teenagers

With social media growing and growing into a mass of accounts and profiles and different groups of people and clubs and websites and other things, what adolescents do on social media is something that many parents worry about. Not every parent is at ease with the fact that their child/teenager is out in open water; one young human being surrounded by millions of other human beings who are younger, the same age, or older than them. The article “Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad idea” takes a look at teenagers ' use of social media. Social media is a very important tool, allowing people to connect or continue their relationships without

Social media is nothing, but a distracting, timewasting, nuisance to everyone surrounded by it, right? Wrong. Social media has changed the world as we know it. People can share information quickly, publish their thoughts, and exchange their ideas. Social media is becoming a certainty in this modern age, which is why it should be embraced rather than criticized. Although there is concern over potential for cyberbullying and lack of privacy, the use of social media is inevitable in teenagers’ lives, and necessary to the positive development of adolescents because it allows adolescents to gain confidence when interacting with others, it encourages users to create and maintain friendships, and it can facilitate learning while promoting educational growth.

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

Social media has been a topic of debate for years. Some people are strongly against any use of it while others like the instant connection it provides. A major concern over social media is the lasting effects it has on teenagers. Social media can affect teenagers through many ways including things like their self-esteem. Cyberbullying is a raging topic of discussion centered around teens social media use. It can also effect their people skills and create a lack of community involvement. Some parents think that watching what their children do on social media is an invasion of privacy but is your concern for their privacy greater than your concern for their safety? Social media poses a great danger to today’s children. It can affect many aspects of their lives.

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.

Children are often seen as immature and incapable of making good decisions, and therefore are thought to not be able to have social media. While there may be some truth to that, we must keep in mind that they are only as mature as they are raised to be. A news story released in 2011 talks about a 13 year old girl who was abducted by a 46 year old man she had met online who she believed to be 15 years old. It was later released that both her mother and her father had no clue that she was even on the social media site where she met the man and had never even cared to check up on her activities since they were hardly ever present in her life anyways. Because she was never raised to know any better, this horrible incident occurred. While this does occur rarely to

Media attracts many teens to get into the trends and know what goes on in other people’s lives, but it also can attract unwanted visitors. Certain “visitors” are called predators. Predators typically try to disguise their age and identity, and also try to lure in teenagers to friend them online. When this happens, usually they ask for a picture of the person or personal information. These predators are more than likely pedaphiles. Eventually, these pedaphiles attempt to meet young victims in person which could lead to kidnapping, and, in most cases, sexual abuse or human trafficking ( John C. Majors, pages 157 through 159). Previously this almost happened to a 14 year old boy when he played a game with a stranger on a social media site. The man playing with him said he was a teen, and one day asked where he lived so he could “drop something off for him.” ( Jonathan McKee, page 33).

The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports that in 2009 there were more than 2,600 incidents of adults using the Internet to entice children. With numbers like that all parents should be monitoring their kids and knowing what they're doing online. But authorities say many parents are clueless about what their kids are doing on social networking sites (p1 Ph 9).

Due to the increase in different websites, teens have been known to give up private information without much thought. With as many social websites there are, it’s no wonder so many incidents have lead to a demise of a teen. With the terms and conditions always stating that it’s their ‘private profile’, children see no issue with sharing their personal lives to the world. They believe that it won’t been seen by those with malicious intent. However, their naive minds fail to see how easy it is for a sadistic minded person to take control of them. To deceive and tear them apart. The world knows it happens, as stated within the article, “..the young boy who unknowingly conversed with a pedophile or the girl who was cyberbullied to the point where she committed suicide.” It was just that that has convinced parents around the world to follow through with spying on their child’s internet use and

One of the many disadvantages that we abuse technology in today's society is that we use unsuitable sites. Yes, teens visit adult sites in expressing curiosity about sex and dating, but that's only because they're eager to know and learn about it. Because online predators are usually in chat rooms, social apps, and multiplayer games, teens are at risk of harm. Infact, “Only 5 percent of online predators pretend they're kids. Most reveal that they're older -- which is especially appealing to 12-to-15-year-olds who are most often targeted.” (Elgersma) For online predators, some right away request explicit photos, others lure the minor in what is called the grooming process. Teens between the ages of 12-15 find it gladdening to be talking to a

Social media is a very popular thing in our generation. Anything and everything can be posted online to a wide range of audience to view. One post I encountered with the other day was a Facebook post upon an ex-boyfriend exposing his girlfriend. Sadly, he forgot that her mom was one of his friends and had commented saying, “WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PRINCESS??” His action by posting that image of his ex displayed exactly why teen sexting is dangerous and too much for their age group. By too much, the power to have a nude photo of one can cause a person to do wrongful things that can destroy the person in that image. Sexting is something not thought of throughly by these teens in which they believe is “a safer alternative to real life sexual activity” (pg. 8). Due to that, this has become more common than people hooking up in

The Internet is an immense database that provides users with a tremendous amount of information on research, commerce, and entertainment. Unfortunately, as the internet keeps advancing, online predators continue to become more successful in what they do. The internet is an ideal network for pedophiles to pursue their interests and fixations with young children. It enables them to locate and interact with adolescents more rapidly than ever before. Although the idea of pedophiles luring children in on the internet is a horrifying image, it is happening. It is through the internet’s easy accessibility that children continue to become vulnerable to these internet predators while engaging in social networking sites.

Facebook, twitter and instagram are all methods used to share your life with others. You’re able to post pictures and type statuses to inform your friends, followers, etc., what you have been up to and how you have been living your life. Adults usually post pictures and statuses focusing on their family, trips and special events in their lives, while the younger generation takes social media a lot more serious. Every moment of their lives are put out there for the world to see, sometimes without the realization. Teenagers on social media are always trying to impress and one up each other. They sometimes post inappropriate material to try to look as cool as possible without realizing that ultimately employers, teachers, parents, law enforcement and strangers all have the ability to see. The problem is once something is on the internet it is there forever, and if caught you can find yourself in major trouble.

Technology has had so many advances in the past decade. People are constantly using the internet for numerous things. Every person uses the internet and technology at least once in their lifetime. Since technology is constantly growing and advancing people find themselves using it more and more for everyday life. Now, adults are usually the ones using the internet, but young kids have found themselves using it more frequently as well. Whether it be a child who is using a phone for games, or a teenager who is using a phone for social media, the internet is always being used. Young kids also find themselves using the internet for several things including social media or texting. With young people using social media there can be a positive side, a negative side, and even changes in ones mind. Young people feed into social media and with this comes cyberbullying, insecurities, distraction, and no privacy.

Parents have the right to know what their children are doing on social media. Parents want to keep their children safe, and monitoring what they do online is an easy way to do so. They have to know what their child is doing online is safe. Parents of teenagers are worried about the dangers that lurk online. For example, some dangers creeping online are cyberbullies, hidden predators and even some sexual predators. ¨ although the media has given much attention to sexting behaviors among youth in recent years¨ ( Sexting Serious Problems for Youth, 2017). The media has put a lot of emphasis on sexting in the recent years. Sexting is when two people send inappropriate pictures or text messages back and forth to each other. The media has made it such a big topic because so many teens have made sexting something they do without thinking. The teens may send the photo/s to the wrong person and they could use them as blackmail. ¨ One in seven U.S teenagers who regularly use the internet, say they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation online, 75% don´t tell their parents¨ ( McCoy, pp.2 ) . The teens are online and have received unwanted messages or pictures from strangers or maybe even people they know online, and feel like they cannot tell anyone. They do not want their parents to snoop on what they are doing online if they tell them they have received unwanted sexual solicitation. But their parents want to keep them safe and as far away from that activity as possible. The