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Social Network
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A social networking is an online service, platform, that focuses on facilitating the building of
social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-
life connections. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to
interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging.
Positive Impacts The main advantage of social networking site is that it helps in establishing
connection with people, friends and relatives. It helps in sharing one’s view,
share pictures and lots of other stuffs. It helps students in interacting with one
another and share ideas. The social networking websites can be accessed
from any part of the globe. This helps the students to establish communication
with their teachers and friends through which they can improve their
knowledge.
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Positive Impacts Through these sites the students can establish contact with
entrepreneurs, corporate people and can gain valuable information
from them. Targets a wide audience, making it a useful and
effective recruitment tool. Increase General Knowledge and
Awareness of Students. Saves Time and Cost by facilitating faster
communication.
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Negative Impacts One of the major disadvantages of using social networking websites are the
students get addicted to it. They spend hours in those social networking sites
which can obviously degrade the student’s academic performance. Opens up
the possibility for hackers to commit Fraud and launch Spam and virus attacks.
Some students may tend to use to these social networking sites till mid night
or even more which can obviously lead to Health related problems.
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Negative ImpactsSome students may spend time in Facebook through which they lack to spend
time with their family members. Some students may provide detailed
information like phone numbers, address which is very dangerous because
they can easily tracked down by strangers.
High exposure on behavior and mental health – Middle schoolers use more
media than any other age group (8 hrs. approx. per day) which results on to
Lower Achedemic Achievements, Lower attachment to school and health
related problems.6
Cyber Bullying The immediacy provided by social media is available to predators as well as
friends. Kids especially are vulnerable to the practice of cyber-bullying in
which the perpetrators, anonymously or even posing as people their victims
trust, terrorize individuals in front of their peers. The devastation of these
online attacks can leave deep mental scars. Cyber-bullying has spread widely
among youth, with 42% reporting that they have been victims.
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Time spent on social media Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming more popular
with youth. In 2009, 15.8 percent of time spent on the Internet was on social
networking sites. By 2010, the percentage had risen to 22.7 percent. The
ability to access to social media sites through cell phones, iPads and other
mobile Internet devices has increased the amount of time youth spend on
these sites.
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Age limitations on social media
Age limitations on social media sites are inadequate : - Currently, Facebook
requires users to be at least 13 years old. However, a study by Boyd found that
31 percent of 10-year-olds, 44 percent of 11-year-olds, and 55 percent of 12-
year-olds reported using a social network site (Boyd, 2011). Social media sites
cannot verify a user’s age. If the user has a valid email address and indicates
that he or she is at least 13 years old, access is available. Other sites, such as
Twitter, have no age limit.
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Parental controlsParental controls, especially for younger adolescents, are a necessary evil.
Youth may feel that parental controls are an invasion of privacy, while parents
feel that they are protecting their children from dangers in an on-line world.
Sites such as Facebook and Myspace currently do not have any direct parental
controls. Parents can “friend” their children to watch what they are posting;
however, new privacy settings allow a young user to block people, including
parents, from seeing what is posted.
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Prevention from Social Media Threats
Install theft protection software on all of the computers you use to access social media
accounts.
Make sure never to click the box to save your password when you are on a public, work or
computer.
Use your real name whenever you sign up for social media accounts.
Avoid giving out personal information on social media sites, such as address, phone number or
your birth date. Change your privacy settings on all your social media accounts, so that you have
control of all the information that is posted.
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Prevention from Social Media Threats
Type in the name of the social media site, or use a bookmark, instead of clicking on email
links.
Create complicated passwords when you sign up for social media accounts.
Never give out your travel plans over social media sites.
Avoid using online applications on social media sites, or the Internet in general, that require
access to your personal or profile information.
Use extreme caution when opening links on social media
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Conclusion Parents need to work with their children on using safety precautions when on social media
sites. Youth need to be taught of the dangers of putting their personal information online.
Parents should also discuss with their children the impact of cyberbullying and the importance
of not engaging in this behavior. This can be done by portraying and visualizing such
documentaries, talk shows, dramas and T.V. programs which shows them the right and positive
view of things and motivate them towards the development of their world. These shows should
spread awareness among youth enabling them to recognize their enemies as well as defend
themselves against their traps.
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