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Dang that’s a lot of words
Let’s just say I got to the middle and yeeted my phone out the window
Then I can’t read
First I thought you meant what that guy typed and 2 I’m 17 I can type on my own
No I just don’t do anything unless I have to
Not true
Yea well every one is different
What did I do
So are you
Everyone is different
No I mean in personality’s
What on earth do you think social media is created for? Socialize
What makes it look bad? Because they can be toxic if they are addicted
So they’re only bad if you only use them for bad.
What makes it look bad? Because they can be toxic if they are addicted
So they’re only bad if you only use them for bad.
How And Why Social Media Should Be Restricted
The last twenty years have been a time of remarkable growth in technology and ways to communicate. The iPhone, Smartwatch, iPad, and other technologies that enable us to use social media have all been around less than twenty years. These devices have seen us drastically change the way we communicate. This change not only affects our social lives, but other parts of our lives too.
Social Media has changed the quality of relationships we have with other people. Before the invention of these technologies people would more often communicate in person or over the telephone. These forms of communication are of higher quality and are more personal. Now people have the ability to post something online and wait for a response. They can even walk away from a conversation if they want to. There are benefits to using social media, especially when it would be hard to meet in person, or when someone is too busy to meet someone in person or make a phone call. However, the problem is that our youth has adapted to using social media as it is more convenient and takes less effort than calling someone or seeing them in person. This has negatively affected the social skills of our youth as many of them have become too reliant on online forms of community to communicate. Being able to see pictures and descriptions of what people are doing is not the same thing as having a real time conversation with them. When having a real time conversation, you can see their facial and body expressions, hear the tone of their voice, you are more able to emphasize and make out what someone is trying to express than you can from a picture or description. There is also the problem that people generally only post the best side of themselves on social media, as they do not want the community to see their weaknesses, or what they struggle with. This negatively influences our youth as it gives them the mindset that they should only express their best side, and not their struggles, as that would put them behind or lesser than other people someway. This is how social media affects the communication skills of our youth and how they interact with other people.
There is also the threat of malice on social media. This can take place in several forms. There is peer to peer malice such as talking about or recording someone with the intent to hurt their reputation. There are older people who try to take advantage of or even molest younger and naive people. There is also the harm that is accidentally done, perhaps posting something on social media that harms someone without the intent to do so. Finally, there is the type of malice in which people with popularity influence other people to do malicious things. I have seen all four types of these in my lifetime, although some of them have happened to other people, but not me, since I do not use social media myself. I have seen how social media has negatively affected me and my peers. I know how drama on social media has caused fights at my school, and I am sure this is the case elsewhere, and most of these fights could be avoided if it was settled down between the two people or a small group of friends. You hear all the time about an older person trying to find and take advantage or molest a younger person. I’ve seen and heard about multiple malicious challenges just from my school within the past few years, with them ranging from promoting sexual harassment to the promotion of destruction of public property. This form of social media malice is especially pervasive on Tik-Tok. There is also the chance of you posting something of yourself or another person that seems fine to post to you but it actually is not and may come around to bite back in the future, as what goes on social media will always be there in some form or another. The risks of malice that young people experience on social media is just too high for their safety and well-being, and the result of this has already been seen via the deterioration in behavior of many students at school. This is another reason why it is a net gain to keep them off of social media.
It seems that most people want a requirement on what age their kids can get social media, with the App Store often saying “13+”. However, there has been no way to enforce any type of age requirement , and if there is to be an official age requirement to social media, it should be eighteen years and older. This is a good age for several reasons. For one, youth’s brains are more developed when they are eighteen than say when they are sixteen, when they are allowed to drive, and are likely to make better decisions. Someone can also sign up for the military when they are eighteen and die for their country, and someone who has the right to die for their country should also be trusted with the responsibility of social media. It should be a passage of adulthood like driving is. Their is also the fact that if someone has gone to age eighteen without using social media, their most crucial years of social development have passed and they will not get the same negative social effects from it.This is why the age of eighteen is a good cut-off age of when people should be able to use social media.
There needs to be a way to enforce this age requirement. This can be done by requiring a license to use that you would get after taking some classes on it and signing an oath not to use social media maliciously, or to let anyone else use the license. This license will have a code that needs to be used to sign into any social media app, and all social media apps need to require this code !(. If people violate the rules they were taught about social media use, they will lose points like on a driver's license. If they lose all their points they are banned from using social media for anywhere from a year to the rest of their lives, depending on the severity of what they did and if they are a repeat offender. When someone loses all their points their social media license is compromised, which also means they can’t make new accounts. This will keep minors off of social media when they are most vulnerable to harm from it and will make our society a better place for people of all ages.
The reasons and ideas above discuss why an eighteen plus age requirement is needed and how this requirement can be enforced. Social media negatively affects how youth’s social skills develop and their ability to form healthy relationships. Social media has also been shown to make minors both victims and doers of malice. This is why we need a strict enforcement system that makes social media a more secure place and is able to keep minors, our society’s most vulnerable people off of there. This is why and how social media should be more closely restricted.