Outline
Audience: Parents
Goal: to instill awareness of consequences from using social media that may occur to their children to prepare parents to lead their children into a healthy social life
Intro
Hook (Interesting Fact):
By 2013, over 2.7 billion people were Internet users, which correspond to 39% of the world’s population and among those, 28 % check their facebook as soon as they woke up.
Social Media Definition
Thesis: As such, it is up to the guardians to prepare for possible predicaments that their children will face, namely, false information, cyber bullying, and self identity issues that came though the creation of social media in the future.
Body
Para 1
Topic: When dealing with social media, one should always be vigilant of falsified
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In social media, there’s a form of harassment called cyber bullying, meaning to harass through the use of electronics and internet as a medium (Campbell, 2005). Bullies can easily send messages and pictures to the target to harass the victim as nowadays, most of teenagers have smartphones. Because of this, victims are vulnerable to bullying for almost twenty four hours. Moreover, another lee way social media created for bullies is that their actions are very hard to track (“Consequences,” 2016). Once the bully harasses, traces can be deleted which lead the bullies to beleive that they can get away unscathed (“11 facts,” n.d.). Yet, be it the bully or the bullied, both will suffer from the consequences of cyber bullying. For the bullies, they risks exposing themselves (“Consequences,” 2016). No matter how subtle, there are traces which can lead to the bully which, sequentially leading them to suffer from detention or even legal processes as society now view cyber bullying as a serious problems. As for the bullied, they may experienced despondant and extreme stress which may lead them belittling themselves or even suicidal thoughts (“11 facts,” n.d.). An example to this is that from 1989 - 2003 (2016), a person name Ryan suffered from his minor physical disability. This lead to people around him to harass him both in the real world and through Instant …show more content…
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According to the article, Rituals Sault, by Elizabeth Svoboda, the author argues that cyberbullies use the social media platform to target, terrorize, and harm others. To add, she provides the reader with information on why the cyberbullies attack others and how to stop them. In the article, Irituals Sauls, Elizabeth Svoboda’s essential focus is that cyberbullying has become a significant issue within the teenage community. Svoboda explains what cyberbullying is, why and how it is an issue, situations in which cyber bullying led to other issues, how cyber bullying created a new social pattern, methods on how to fix and prevent the issue from becoming more than what it already is.
Bullying is a major issue facing today’s youth. Over the course of the past few years bullying has become such a concern that many states have adopted laws against it. However, the issue evolves as time goes on and now cyber bullying exists. Cyber bullies can insult others over the internet with no need to be nearby the person they are insulting.
Today social media is a problem to society. Social media consist of cyber bullying, violence, sexual content, and these are things that have a big impact on the behavior of our youth. As I scroll down my timeline on Facebook I see people uploading videos smoking, drinking, having sex, and bullying others. Social media is full of negativity and it’s the attraction of the youth. Kids look up to the ideal people on social media even if their doing negative things.
There have been two unfortunate suicidal cases in recent years due to cyber bullying: one victim jumped off a cement factory tower with the one shot himself in the chest. A group of Dutch researchers decided to study the relationship between the bullying and the suicides. From 34 studies that shared close resemblance to the issue, they concluded that the children that were being cyber bullied was 3.12 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts, compared to children that were had never been bullied before. One of the researchers also pointed out that annually, about five to eight percent of the US population attempts to commit
However, many off turn a blind eye to the negative impact it has and will continue to have on society. For instance, although the ability to share images and videos with loved ones instantaneously regardless of where they are in the world is amazing; a simple oversight in the privacy settings could potentially place those pictures and/or videos in the wrong hands, which could be used to bully. In fact, “the depression and anxiety from cyberbullying are significant and have been the cause of many suicides in America” (Richards, Caldwell, & Go, 2015). Therefore, it is imperative that social media is not only monitored, but usage is
References O'Keeffe, G.S., Clarke-Pearson, K. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families. The American Academy of Pediatrics. Retrieved October 16, 2015 from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800.short In this article, O'Keeffe, M.D. and Clarke-Pearson, M.D. weigh the positives and negatives of social media against each other.
Suicide in Social Media Social media now plays a major role in our generation, which can be accessed at the tip of our fingers now making it hard to ignore the things we see. Allowing many people to share almost every minute of their life all over some form of social media. Social media can be addicting “An increase in suicide rates among US teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and new analysis suggest there may be a link” ( “Newsela”) Technology has changed over the following years, but that doesn’t change the fact of “cyber bullying” still exists in our generation. It’s just displayed as a different form of “bullying”, there’s a billion things that are posted on social media each seen in a different perspective giving a
Children today use more technological devices and are active on social media platforms compared to children in the 1990’s. Technology plays a huge role when it comes to our daily lives. As technology continues to advance more people are becoming active on social media apps and websites. Texting and social media applications have many advancements and conveniences like easy access to information, entertainment and communicating with others. However, it also has consequences, especially for adolescents.
Self-confidence is a trait most people may struggle with whether because they do not think they are good enough, or people make them feel inferior, and social media is a huge landmark of self-confidence issues for teens. Teens see all these things on social media, beautiful models, new phones and shoes, the latest trends and they feel they need to live up to these standards that social media has given them. In a journal article titled “Limiting Teen Use of Social Media” by Catherine Monroe states that causes of low self-esteem are, “Due to the fact that in today’s society teenagers are constantly on social media, they have become accustomed to comparing themselves to others and seeking approval from their peers.” Now, this is an obvious yet
Online it is so easy to bully someone without getting into trouble for doing it, this is why more bullying happens online than in person. This issue affects everyone being bullied, and it can happen to anyone. Cyberbullying is a big problem and needs to be solved, online speech should be limited because cyberbullying happens to so many people, it could help stop harassment, and it could help more people get involved. Cyberbullying happens more than we recognize. 25% of people say they have been cyberbullied within their lifetimes (Doc A).
Annotated Bibliography Brody, N., & Vangelisti, A. L. (2017). Cyberbullying: Topics strategies, and sex differences. Computers in Human Behaviors, 75, 739-748. Doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.020 There are multiple strategies to cyberbullying, the most common strategies include public and private comments, photographs, and status updates. Cyberbullies use these strategies to make someone feel less than what they are.
Fast innovations, such as the Internet, are constantly changing how people interact. Although this development has been approved human beings to make great progress in many areas, they have also allowed the form of violation to become more widespread. This is evident when looking at how traditional bullying has grown became today's issue known as cyberbullying. Although bullying and cyberbullying are often similar in shape and their technique also has a lot of difference. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying allows offenders to close his identity behind the computer.
2021315 Is Social Media Beneficial for Teens? Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, Skype and Messages are all sorts of social media, many of us use those applications at least a several times on a daily basis. Defining social media as a online tool to communicate with the world, here I will stand on the negative side of this resolution. Many ones, including parents, faculty member, and even teenagers themselves strongly believe that social media is beneficial and entertaining. But, the reality is, the negatives of social media outweigh the positive sides by a colossal difference.
Cyber Bullying has become an increasing problem in our society that threatens physical and emotional harm to ever greater numbers of young people. The sad fact is, some youths are so deeply affected by the negative influence of bullying that they have taken their own lives. Although suicides represent a rare and extreme reaction to bullying, it is a real issue that our children are facing today. Cyberbullying is often a factor in young people becoming depressed and having low self-esteem. Cyberbullying has been an issue, in the United States as well as everywhere throughout the world.
Cyber Bullying has become an increasing problem in our society that threatens physical and emotional harm to ever greater numbers of young people. The sad fact is, some youths are so deeply affected by the negative influence of bullying that they have taken their own lives. Although suicides represent a rare and extreme reaction to bullying, it is a real issue that our children are facing today. Cyberbullying is often a factor in young people becoming depressed and having low self-esteem. Cyberbullying has been an issue, in the United States as well as everywhere throughout the world.