Tuesday, April 24, 2012

  Social media can be used as a tool for many dishonest reasons. It is very easy for someone to create an account on anyone of the many sites and anonymously send messages or make comments to bully the victim. Also people can have posted on their account something that was not meant for anyone else to see such chat logs or scandalous photos. I have a friend who has been harassed over Facebook by "friends" on his page. They kept making rude remarks based on him being over weight, and if a picture or post has a lot of activity then it gets on all the friend's news feed. Having the things appear on my news feed was how I found out about it occurring. The bullying took its toll on my friend and he deactivated his Facebook account, still not to have activated in yet again. There have been countless instances of a sent photo being leaked on the internet, and the sad part is once it is on there you do not know how many people have seen it or who has saved it. It will be out there in the vast internet forever. For many young teens social websites will be one of the first sites they actively visit and they may not be aware of the responsibilities that come with it. The posts or comments young teens make maybe made with a naive attitude and unaware of the consequences of posting.  Many teens are unaware of the dangers of exposing themselves too much to strangers over the Internet. With some experience and knowledge of computer codes anyone can hack into virtually any one's social media account and obtain information or post anything they feel like. There is no real safety when lurking on the internet. When applying for a job position employers may do a Google search on you so if you have anything inappropriate or even if you leave your account up and someone posts something heinous, the job opportunity could be lost. Due to the constant up to date posts and activity on all the social media sites young teens may develop an addiction. Teens spend an average of nine hours per week on social networking sites ("Procon"). It does not help at all that all the sites have expanded to a mobile version so it can be taken anywhere. Young teens that spend more time online communicating rather than time having face to face communicating will grow to be young adults that do not know how to have a normal conversation. 

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