Should Children Be Allowed To Have Social Media Account?
Children ages 12 years and below should not be allowed to have a social media account
We live in a dynamic world. Our world ten or twenty years ago is a lot more different from our world today. A lot of changes had happened. Many new things were invented. Technology grew at its best, even the online world including social media and its users. How old were you when you had your first social media account? As for me, I had my first social media account at the age of ten. It was Friendster back then, but I was not the one who made it. It was my aunt who made the account because she knows more about social media. So what then is social media? Social media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or …show more content…
Children cannot take all the responsibility of having social media accounts. Children agree on terms that they don’t even fully understand. In social media, children will be exposed to different ideas that they may not also understand yet. We know that children follow what adults do. Children can learn from other people. People add information to their own profiles to make them interesting. They do these without considering the risks of doing so. Children wanted to be cool too and follow what other people do. Children are giving information to the public and sometimes it would be too much that it breaks their right to privacy. Sometimes, out of children’s illiteracy, they share their password with other people. I even experienced it when I was still in elementary. My friends and I exchanged email addresses and passwords just for fun. Then I realized when I was in high school that passwords are not to be …show more content…
Children who use social media can be addicted to it and may not think of doing outdoor activities. Experts state that when kids don’t go out and play, it affects their development (Henley, 2010). There’s a lot of learning and development that will happen outside. Physical activities can give more freedom to children and give them a healthier life. Research show that children who play outdoors develop better language skills and can use their imagination more than children who don’t. Social media can limit the children’s chance of fun learning. Outdoor activities can help develop the child’s ability to solve problems (Henley, 2010) and children can learn to interact with their playmates and build a strong relationship with each
We live in a dynamic world. Our world ten or twenty years ago is a lot more different from our world today. A lot of changes had happened. Many new things were invented. Technology grew at its best, even the online world including social media and its users. How old were you when you had your first social media account? As for me, I had my first social media account at the age of ten. It was Friendster back then, but I was not the one who made it. It was my aunt who made the account because she knows more about social media. So what then is social media? Social media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or …show more content…
Children cannot take all the responsibility of having social media accounts. Children agree on terms that they don’t even fully understand. In social media, children will be exposed to different ideas that they may not also understand yet. We know that children follow what adults do. Children can learn from other people. People add information to their own profiles to make them interesting. They do these without considering the risks of doing so. Children wanted to be cool too and follow what other people do. Children are giving information to the public and sometimes it would be too much that it breaks their right to privacy. Sometimes, out of children’s illiteracy, they share their password with other people. I even experienced it when I was still in elementary. My friends and I exchanged email addresses and passwords just for fun. Then I realized when I was in high school that passwords are not to be …show more content…
Children who use social media can be addicted to it and may not think of doing outdoor activities. Experts state that when kids don’t go out and play, it affects their development (Henley, 2010). There’s a lot of learning and development that will happen outside. Physical activities can give more freedom to children and give them a healthier life. Research show that children who play outdoors develop better language skills and can use their imagination more than children who don’t. Social media can limit the children’s chance of fun learning. Outdoor activities can help develop the child’s ability to solve problems (Henley, 2010) and children can learn to interact with their playmates and build a strong relationship with each