Thursday 15 November 2012

ESSAY - The use of social media should be carefully censored by parents. Yes or No?

I personally believe that social media should be carefully censored by parents especially when it is young kids are using them. we are talking about. Even if it's a teenager, parents have the rights to keep a lookout of what their child is up to. The content of social media is not and are rarely censored. This would harm teenagers as if they who post careless messages on Twitter or Facebook. It will remain there forever even if he/she deletes it from their account. This would allow strangers or hackers to know what was posted. Also, personal information would allow strangers to know about them and might send spam emails to them which would not do them good.
Another reason is that social media has easy access to strangers. whereby Teenagers can go to online chatting websites and chat with strangers whom you do not know of. This is dangerous as you do  not know what these strangers are up to. Once you get "closer" to the stranger, he/she would threaten you to send him a photo of yourself and you would not know what he might do with that picture. For example, a 16 year old girl, named Amanda Todd, who made friends with a guy through an online chatting site and sent him a photo of her chest which the stranger sent to all her friends and even made a FaceBook group using that picture as the display photo. He followed her to wherever she went, and about a month later, she committed suicide. Hence social media needs to be censored to keep teens safe.

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