Our way of living have changed because of technology. We have become dependent on gadgets and appliances that made our lives easier. Most of all, our lives have greatly changed because of the Internet, where social media sites have emerged. Social media totally shifted the way we lived our lives. Almost every hour, we use them. We get access to information and we communicate with different people using those sites. However, not everyone should be completely allowed to use social media.

The Issue

As the pictures shows, it obviously tells us that kids should be kept out from social media. Social media is a big help. It’s an entertainment, a medium of communication and a source of information. Nevertheless, the issue is that kids are not yet mature and responsible to use social media sites. They do not have that much experiences that will help them handle what social media offers. They get access to explicit content and bad influence. They can talk to strangers who can expose them to danger. They need guidance and restrictions when using social media, which right now are not given to them. The lack of this guidance has become a problem for this growing kids.

The Impact

Kids having access to social media at a young age would not do our society any good. Social media does not filter violence that much. Young minds can view violent content freely. This will lead them to try such things as they will think it is okay, which in turn will result to more juvenile crimes. They become violent in the way the act and the way they speak. Children have it easy to say bad words and hurt others. Other than that, it can be traumatic for some children to watch violence at an early age. Moreover, children who use social media become victims of sexual crimes. They are more gullible and easy to manipulate. Evil people try to use social media to prey on children. Because of children having freely access to social media, they are exposed to violence, which results to society where crimes are prevalent.

Children also become victims of addiction to social media. They become lazy. They do not learn how to be responsible. If the young ones right now do not learn how to live their lives, they become adults who are immature. They become adults who will not be able to become independent enough.

Rather than experiencing the outside world to discover more about the real things, they depend more on social media to learn which is dangerous. Children get influenced by false information which are easily spread in social media. Wrong ideologies are fed to children at young age They easily believe false history and harmful fake new that corrupt their minds. Kids who grow up without being taught how to discern the truth are harmful to our society. They become adults who cannot respect because they are fed with false beliefs.

The youth is our future. The kids brings hope for a brighter tomorrow. However, if this kids are corrupted because of social media, will we still have that hope? Our humanity should protect kids from harm and danger. Our well-being would not continue to prosper if we expose our kids to bad influence. Parents and adults should guide children on how they use social media so they would turn out to be adults who have good behavior.

The Response

To bring light to such different issues in our society brought about by technology, we must study and learn technology in social contexts. It allows us to learn how science and technology affects our society in different aspects. We must know how to handle the changes that we go through because of advancement of science and technology.

As technologies develop, we experience a lot of advantages. We are benefitted by these advancements because it enhances our standard of living. Our society improves because of it. That is why, we should learn more about it so we can fully utilize those benefits in our lives.

On the other hand, the progress of our society due to science and technology is accompanied by some harmful disadvantages. New scientific knowledge can be use to harm other people. Advanced technology can lead people to unfamiliar dangers. Which is why, it is really important for us to address this disadvantages. Issues and problems arise because of modern science and technology we should view them in a wider perspective.

As stated, an issue connected here is the lack of guidance and restriction regarding children using social media sites and Internet. This is one of the visible problems our society goes through because of improvement of technology. We should create an avenue to research and resolve problems that emerged due to technologies. Without research, we cannot bring these issues in the eyes of people who have the academic capability to provide solutions.

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