Case Study: Do Minors Use Social Media

A recent study shows that every three out of five adolescents will be bullied on a social media site and out of those five minors two will commit suicide. However there are those who believe social media has become a way for minors to express themselves. But is the price of someone's life really worth a few likes and followers. Minors should not be allowed to use social media sites because they can be more destructive than positive when it comes to using them. In the past decade technology has taken a turn for the better however it is social media that has had a negative impact on everyone's mannerisms especially in Minors. Due to their age Minors are more susceptible to making bad choices and those choices are made based on how many likes or followers they aquire. Minors have changed there way of thinking and behavior to
In the years that social media has been In the lives of minors a new type of bullying arose known as cyber bullying. Social media has made this type of bullying more accessible for bullies to toutant others. This has lead to many more deaths of minors throughout the years due to the victims never being able to escape all of the terrorizing comments made by the bully on there social media page. Minors lives are being damaged greatly with the use of social media whether they choose to notice or not. When walking down the street Alice Conde a 17 year old female in high school crossed the intersection of a busy street while on her phone. even tough she had the right away because it was her turn to cross she was to busy on her phone to notice that a car had passed a red light and it ended up hitting her. She was rushed to the the hospital to tend to her many life threatening injuries. If Alice had not been so focused on her phone when she crossed the street she would have seen the car and perhaps this tragedy could have been