The Negative Effects Of Social Media And Children's Impact On Children

Social media seems to be changing how we communicate through society. Adolescents are consumed with media for an estimated 7.5-8.5 hours per day (Georgia, 2014; Giedd, 2012). Instead of interacting with each other face to face adolescents are socializing through their phones (George, 2014). The purpose of the paper was to research how social media affects the brain, sleep, and cyberbullying (Lemola, Perkinson- Gloor, Brand, Dewald- Kaufmann, & Grob, 2014; Mills, 2014; Betts & Spenser, 2017).

A valid fear of social media comes from parents’ apprehension over privacy and protection for their children. Indeed in 2009 ninety thousand confirmable sex offenders lost their accounts on MySpace after the site discovered them (Sex Offenders MySpace). Information such as this is enough to frighten off a multitude of potential users. Many children are subjected to a rising problem known as “cyberbullying”. Online harassment “cause[s] profound psychosocial” problems in our youth such as “depression, anxiety, severe isolation, and, tragically, suicide (Impact).” After hearing some of the terrible products social media provides, is it any wonder why parents ban their children from

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.

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 the ability to share these moments with distance love one’s and friends. Social media sites and apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram makes photo and message sharing feasible. Anyone can upload all their kids memorable moments to social media profiles. As a result distance will never present a dilemma for families and friends, now a school play, funny home video, or birthday never have to be missed. Amy Web, author of “We Post, Nothing About Our Daughter Online”, unveiled the detrimental impacts social media possess in a child's future. Furthermore,

The article “The Upside of Selfies: Social Media Isn’t All Bad for Kids” by Kelly Wallace discusses the positive impacts of social media. In the article, a mother is interviewed about her children’s social media use. She agrees that social media

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.

Hello my name is Daniel Acheampong and I will be presenting my analysis on CNN optional editorial about “Is Social Media Ruining our children” by Sreedhar Potarazu, an ophthalmologist, and entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Vital Spring Technologies Inc., a software company focused on providing employers with applications to aid in purchasing health care. He is the author of "Get Off the Dime: The Secret of Changing Who Pays for Your Health Care"(CNN). I found this article interesting because we live in an age where our relationship with our devices are impacting us and this article talks about how social is ruining our children which are a problem our country is facing now. Sreedhar claims social media

Is social media ruining children’s lives? Without the internet, I would be healthier and more active. I can’t imagine life without the internet however if we didn’t have the internet we would be outside more and we wouldn’t even think about phones because they wouldn’t be as fun as they are now. I would be upset if I got my phone taken away for a year, but that would force me to be more active. I would go outside more and be more adventurous. I would be healthier and happier and the world would be more social, face to face.

It is difficult to escape the grasp that social media has on our society. These mythical meeting places have ingrained themselves into all aspects of our daily lives. Personal electronic devices have become digital assistants that reside in our pockets. We keep an entourage of "friends" as our brain trust, always on call, always ready to chime in with their entirely factual and biased based opinions. We confide in these sites and their associated user base with our secrets, and believe all the answers they provide us are true. As users become addicted to oversharing their lives, in the infinite quest for social reciprocity and belonging from their "friends" list. Our children are being raised as

Instagram twitter and facebook are just some of the titans of social media. Once something happens to someone, a post comes up showing what happened or how it happened. When someone posts something they think is funny about someone else it could be hurtful. With parents owning instagram or twitter, their children definitely have been brought up once or twice. That is just normal, but other times those children have photos or videos of them doing something ridiculous or funny. “I really don’t like it when my parents post pictures of me on their social media accounts, especially after finding out that some of my friends follow them,” Said Maisy Hoffman an eighth grader in Manhattan. Teenagers and tweens are becoming more self conscious about

While these youngsters should be able to control what they appear like online, they should not be self conscious. Children should not sacrifice who they are for what they want to appear like online. Generally, minors want to appear socially acceptable online. Often, children prevent themselves from expressing their individuality so they appear more socially acceptable in the digital world. This can have a major effect on society as a whole because children will start to become more and more like each other, effectively ridding of individualism. But it is not entirely the children’s fault for acting this way. The thought of having yourself in the digital world permanently can be scary. Not only are posts and comments permanent, but everyone can easily access them. In Teddy Wayne’s “Holdouts of the Social Media Age”, Wayne explains that people should be cautious about what they post because big corporations and the government has full access to the digital information. Mr. Flanery, who joined Facebook in 2007, stated, “It was only gradually that I began to realize the visibility of my posts on other people’s pages, to a body whose makeup I couldn’t police” (3). Flanery only realized how public his posts were after he freely posted and commented. Because big corporations and the government have access to digital profiles, Flanery and many other adults choose to post carefully. These adults have a choice of what they post. In contrast, children can not control what is posted about them. This is why children should not be introduced to social media until they get older. This enables them to choose what they want publicly posted about them when they have an understanding of how public their information

Social media has negative effects on adolescents who overuse it. It is important as parents or guardians to remember to monitor how much kids use social media and when they use it. As a parent or guardian, you must remember that the disorders kids can get from overusing social media is real. Also remember that the internet isn’t always the safest place for our children. The use of social media can be damaging and it has no benefit. Keep control of your children’s use on social media to avoid these negative effects. The internet does interfere with daily

Children are not developed enough to handle the immediacy of social media. Young teens believe they can get away with bullying others online because of the “privacy” social media provides. Preteens don’t understand that once something is published online it never can be erased or deleted. Soon schoolyard taunts and squabbles turn into much bigger harassment cases without the protection of teachers and parents. Everything that is posted to social media is seen by thousands of eyes in a matter of minutes, this being so most adults try to watch what they say and do on Facebook, kids on the other hand do not. Posting risque images of themselves or others is common on social media for preteens because they don’t think the photo can be traced back

Audience: The intended audience will be parents who feel that their family is disconnected due to the over use of Social Media and the internet. Families who have family members that are addicted to Social Media and the internet.

Social media sites allow millions of people to interact with friends,family and anyone around the world. A large portion of social media users are teenagers; researchers and parents both believe that social media is having a multitude of possible effects on teenagers. This literature review will analyze research of the positive and negative effects social media are having on today’s impressionable youth. Much of the research focuses on the age range of 10-16 from well-to-do families and college students. Understanding the online environment that teenagers live in can help parents relate to their children and teach then about the dangers and benefits of being on the Internet.