SOCIAL MEDIAING IN 2018 

Taking about social media platforms and the impacts it has brought in almost each and every person’s life in your family, it has made it easier for us to make friends and the new friendship is giving  problematic impacts which are hard to be faced. There are majority of people using the same social media platforms you are using. In instance some of the social media platforms you are using and the friends you have, you may only be knowing a couple of them.   
Social media platforms are quite attractive and we spend most of our day surfing on platforms and making new friends. Predators new to social media take advantage of the new technology handing out information that is supposed to be kept private as well as the new friends made online and the new friendship is having problematic impacts. Children should be:

Careful when giving out information- We sign away our privacy in exchange for the conveniences of modern living, giving cooperation access to information about our financial circumstances and our spending habits, which will then be used to target us for ads or to analyze our consumer habits.” (page 425). It shows how much we may be loving things and how we are ready let go things maybe just cause you want someone to know your desire life or what you have and this turn out to be a disadvantage. 

Knowing What To Post- “ Limit The amount of personal information you post”. For example- posting things such as your current status every day you are likely to be spammed easily and will be found by a stalker in a short time.

New social predators are not aware of what to be considering while making friends on social media. They are overwhelmed with the new features which are persuasive to hand out information. Children are not aware of being:

Assertive and Skeptical - Children are not sure of what they want.  Knowing  what you want and if you see your friend posting something about you that you aren’t comfortable with, tell them to take it off from the platform and don’t be overwhelmed with what you may read on social media. -“We aren’t born with full social awareness, and Dunbar fears that too much virtual interaction may subvert that education. (Page 239-Dunbar).

Socializing- "We underestimate how important touch is in the world”. (Page 238). This shows how trust are  brought up when you start having mutual relationships with someone who you have not met in person but you blindly start trusting them with giving them your personal information. 

Sometimes children make it difficult for parents when it comes to pushing their children away from social media because of what they have to face. For example, when a child posts something related to parents privacy. 

Most children are not aware of social media platforms and their impacts. 

Children should be guided on using social media while they allow their children to  use the social media platforms. As well as should be aware of what their children post online because parents are the root cause of some issues dealing with privacy being leaked. 

WORK CITED

Barclay Barrios Emerging Contemporary Readings for Writers.

1. Peter Singer- page 425-431.

2. Maria Konnikova- page 235-241.

sparekh2019@fau.edusparekh2019@gmail.comhttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/sunday-review/we-want-privacy-but-cant-stop-sharing.html-

-We want Privacy, but can’t stop sharing. Published on October 4th, 2014.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST06-003.-

-Staying Safe on Social Networking Sites. Published on January 26th, 2011 | Last revised on June 5th, 2015.