With every year that passes our society inches closer and closer to a zombie apocalypse of our creation. There is no solid information that proves the use of social media at a young age to be damaging. There is also no information proving that it 's an advantage in any way as well. Social media is meant to connect a person with their friends and what 's going on in the world, but anyone can easily misuse their social media accounts. Having a social media account of any kind is a strong disadvantage not only to a child individually but to the future of our society as a whole. In 2016, it 's estimated that there will be around 2.13 billion social network users around the world while over 5 million Facebook accounts created by …show more content…
Now that may be harmless and innocent, but its the 43% of children (ages 8 to 16) that have admitted to sending messages to strangers that worry us. With such a high misuse of their sites, 32% of their parents are confident they are making the right decisions and staying safe on the internet. There is quite a lot of controversy when it comes to the use of social media by minors. Many studies have been conducted to study the physiological disadvantages children may develop by their use of such sites. The results from these studies are across the board, some saying it 's an advantage the physiological health, some disagreeing, a solid answer is yet to be determined. With spending so much time updating your status, adding a new picture of yourself, or sharing a funny cat video you 're bound to have some anti-social tendencies. Children 's parties that used to consist of dancing and pin the tail on the donkey now consist of everybody sitting around on their phones, tablets, and computers messaging the person across the room. Most of these social media sites revolving around the pictures you 've uploaded can cause a child to develop narcissistic qualities, with photoshopping and taking the 'perfect selfie. ' Children can be mean and hurtful, rude comments can be left on someone 's picture causing them to feel self-conscious about their apperance. This is the beginning of
Social media allows minors to connect and interact with others. They learn to be social with others and make friends. Minors tend to be very shy and sometimes self conscious of themselves. Them being introduced to social media gives them a chance to open up an express themselves, once again with limits. In addition to this, it also allows minors
Should Kids be on social media, NO! There are tons of Adolescents being persuaded to talk and eventually meet strangers, the internet consists of very adult pictures, videos, etc… on social media & Just plain wrong stuff that kids don’t need to find buried in Facebook, Instagram, etc…
Social media sites are a very dangerous thing if you really think about it. Millions of underage teens are posting pictures of themselves and sharing parts of there personal life to the world. On these sites such as instagram and snapchat there are dangerous people and sometimes teens don't understand that. They have access to social media everywhere
The Internet is a very wide world where you can see different things and assortments of the realities that are happening in the real world right now. You can see a problem happening in China or Russia, or you can be looking at the best Compilation of Cat Videos. Social Media, its a part of every teens life at one point, and it really can affect you positively or can demoralize the values you had . Positive signs in Social Media is you can see what your friends are up to and what other people are dealing with in other parts of the world. The demoralizing things about social media is the posting of vulgar content and at this point in our world, live suicides. There is also a risk of Cyberbullying and getting ‘exposed’ to the community of who you really are. Parents, they often see social media, such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. as apps that aren’t as harmful because it’s them posting pictures or the child
Many social media apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are used today. There are many children at age 6-12 who use social media. Social media can be a dangerous place to be in. Is it appropriate for children? No, because there is negative, inappropriate, and cruel things on them. From violent videos, to adult films, to inappropriate language. Children at that age should not be using social media. As of today, many children are getting bullied, kidnapped, and murdered. It is unbelievable how many innocent children have been treated. It is sad, this is why children should not be using social media. It will take them to an incorrect path or lose their life.
Young children under the age of sixteen should not be allowed to use social media. The reason is because our overuse of social media is a bit frightening. Using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is equivalent to creating an open door into our daily, personal lives. How you may ask? Social media gives us the freedom to share personal information and pictures with our friends and family, and although we can change our security settings to say that, “Hey, we are only going to share this with friends and family”, all the pictures and status updates we put online stays online for the world to see and not just whoever is on our friends’ lists. In an article by, Peter W. Cardon and Bryan Marshall from the Journal of Business Communication, they explore the facts of how many people young and old use social media as well as explore the facts of how it is used. From a study they performed in 2012, about 86% of teenagers aged from
Social media sites are websites that allow users to connect with large groups of people and share opinions, daily experiences, as well as pictures. These sites can aid with staying in contact with family and friends regardless of their proximity to you. However, these social media sites can cause damage and even bring harm. Parents should not allow children under the age of 18 to access social media sites, because children are not mature enough to deal with the potential pitfalls and dangers that are present on social media sites.
Firstly O'Keeffe, G.S. and Clarke-Pearson, K., (2011) state that “Using social media becomes a risk to adolescents more often than most adults realize. Most risks fall into the following categories: peer-to-peer; inappropriate content; lack of understanding of online privacy issues; and outside influences of third-party
There are a lot of concerns with younger adolescents using social media. To begin, there are a lot of anonymous users that disguise themselves online to predatory towards younger girls. A famous television show named: How to Catch a Predator, have been evidence towards this situation. Younger girls can even boys could be exposed to unwanted sexual advances which could be mentally detrimental. Thus connecting to how younger adolescents shouldn’t be able to have social media accounts. Next, privacy settings on certain social media accounts could be compromised and information could be leaked to the public eye. There have been studies that have stated that many people who do have social media accounts with safety settings have a feeling of being safe but not as safe as they thought they would be (E. Warren, personal communication, May 24, 2017).
Social media has no limits. It is becoming accessible to everyone , especially the extremely younger ones. Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Snapchat has become a worldwide trend and also has become a must have. Kids have more access to become a part of the trend because nowadays an iphone is the new barbie and parents are oblivious to what this generation of children are actually capable of doing when handed an electrical device. The knowledge kids have can be either a good or bad thing.
The problem with children using the internet and social media for a long time is the fact that they are being affected but they just can't tell. The longer children and teens are on social media, the likely the are affected. They spend little time outside with others running around or playing sports because they are more interested in social media and surfing the web. Teens start to worry
Be a butterfly in today’s society rather than the person who stands in the distance and watches everything unfold. In addition,their homes are easily becoming their easy go to place due to the insecurities brought onto them from the To be social: be it a social Butterfly or hermit, everyone in the modern age feels the effects of the real world and all it has to offer. People often feel subject to the criticism the world has to offer. The majority falls under one of the two categories and might not even knowing. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat provide a way to keep in touch with everybody under the sun, while also pulling one away from society, allowing them to be onlookers on the world from the comfort of their own homes. For most, a home in today 's society provides a safe haven for the harsh realities of the world today. Perhaps the “hermits” stay inside their shells out of fear.As a result,society has become blind to the simple fact that there is no longer a need to leave their comfort zone resulting in the possibility of being critiqued by Society.
Imagine a world where there is no social media, no way to share your funny stories. However a lot more than your dank memes would suffer, people 's entire jobs are making companies look good on social media, gone in an instant. Things are constantly changing, and here its for the better, people are moving toward creating a universal style of translation via Skype, it is self learning and a great example of the modernization of the world (Bailey). In addition to this, Computers have been proven to help keep people 's minds sharp as a tack, some aspects are simple enough for even beginners to understand. Such as a Skype program which connects people with people and could be used by an older person due to its simplicity (How Using Computers Can Help Keep Your Mind Sharp). This leads us to believe that social media is beneficial to society because it provides medical, economic and scientific opportunities that prior generations did not have access to.
Parents should educate themselves further before allowing their kids to have access to something that has the potential of being dangerous. Online sites are not only a problem while they are in use but the information they are sharing now may one day come back and haunt them down the line. “Once data is stored online, it can be accessed from any Internet-connected computer” (Marshall). Adolescence should not be exposed to the social networking world in order to protect them from cyber bulling, strangers, health problems and from being overly exposed at too young of an age.
As if advertisements were not bad enough, the sites that these adolescents go to from the Internet can be just as dangerous and influential. Social media sites can be used for anything from finding long-lost friends to organizing business plans making plans with friends. However, for the younger generations, social media sites are used for dangerous, harmful, and unbecoming ways. Adolescents have been known to do many inappropriate things on social media sites such as cyberbullying, looking up adult content, and taking part in child pornography. Although most social media sites have age limits, it is not very difficult for children under this specific age to lie in order to be permitted to access the content.