Samantha Smith slipped and fell on shampoo that had spilled in the health and beauty department of the grocery store in question. Ms. Smith had suffered a broken hip from the incident and is going to be spending the next few months in physical therapy. Ms. Smith has no health insurance and is a single mother of a 2 year old boy. After our complaints were filed in the courts; the grocery store alleges that Ms. Smith had a duty herself to avoid the spillage, but was too distracted by her young son to notice. The store feels that Ms. Smith should be held just as responsible as they are in the case.…
According to Julia Mckinnell in the article “Control, Alt, Erase” she talks about how social networking has become a problem for teenagers, and how parents can serve as “a role model” by helping and making sure that their kids personal information is safe. Mckinnell gives important reasons why parents should be aware of the consequences that social networks can have on their children. Posting a message, a tweet, or a photo online can give away the location and time it was posted. This data can be used to identify, or to gather personal information. For example, Tech companies gather personal data onto teenager's social media accounts for profit (Mckinnell). Also, jobs might look to gather data about certain individuals to know who they hire. Therefore, it's important for parents to teach their children risks involving sharing personal information to the public.…
Aug. 23, 2011 -- Teens who spend time on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social networking sites may be more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and use drugs. That's according to Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). CASA recently polled more than 2,000 teens online or by phone, as well as 528 parents of teens. Most parents don’t believe that those sites have a chance of begin a negative impact on their kids. Most parents are guilty of not monitoring what their kids watch on TV or the kind of games kids are playing on play station. That’s one of the reasons teens turn to drugs and alcohol because of some of the things they view on TV or in the games they play. Music and Cyber bullying also plays a role in teen’s use of drugs and alcohol. Sometimes the lyrics on some of the songs teens listen to can impact their choice to use drugs and or alcohol. The lyrics can prove very offensive some lyrics talk about getting high and the use of marijuana, sex and drinking. One drug that wasn’t very much discussed…
Journalist Nancy Jo Sales goes to a mall to sit with teenage girls, and hear about their social media life. She writes a book called “American Girls: Social Media, and The Secret Lives of Teenage Girls”. Which is about the life of this era of smartphones and social media. Her book is based off a girl she met with who had tried to commit suicide over cyberbullying. The girl had social media and would post pictures and would get awful, rude, and nasty comments, until one day someone contacted her and her parents about her bullying issues.…
I found the climax of the story to be the most interesting and surprising part of the book.…
An Edison Research shows that over 70% of the nation has a social media profile as of the first of January this current year. The Pew Research Center published results of a survey that shows 92% of teens, identified as 13-17 year olds in this survey, go online daily. From this research we can see how affected young adults and teens are affected by social media and although social media affects all sorts of people, it seems that social media affects young adults and teens to a greater extent. In a survey published by the National Crime Prevention Council, around 40% of teens were cyber-bullied. The social issues teens face differs from feeling insecure about themselves to feeling pressured about always looking their best. Some find the use of a “selfie” as empowering while others use it as a measure to determine their worth by how many like or hearts they receive for that “selfie”. Although the online world manages to a produce solid amount of social hardships, the real world produces still produces its share of social issues. Face-to-face bullying is still common and teens are still facing the social issue. While bullying, whether online or in person, seems to result with more deaths in suicides than actual happy endings, there are those who still have endured their share of social problems to become happier people. Some of these people have led themselves to being idols that teens admire such Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato. Both these stars were bullied in high school, Taylor Swift for not being “cool enough” and Demi Lovato for weight issues, worked towards overcoming their insecurities to become who and what they are today: happy and successful role…
A recent study shows that every three out of five adolescents will be bullied on a social media site and out of those five minors two will commit suicide. However there are those who believe social media has become a way for minors to express themselves. But is the price of someone's life really worth a few likes and followers. Minors should not be allowed to use social media sites because they can be more destructive than positive when it comes to using them.…
How funny it is, to think we could ever really know another human being. Oh we muddle through all right, mostly in peace, at some level of adequacy but you never have a clue as to what exactly is going on in anybody’s head, or as to why another person does anything. Nobody understands anybody, heck, nobody understands themselves. I doubt our minds could even grasp the whole truth about anything, let alone a person. One mind can only think up its own questions and biases; it rarely surprises itself. Our mental frameworks are never quite perfect, everything’s blurrier and everyone’s uglier up close. This is correspondingly illustrated by Director Sofia Coppola’s film, The Virgin Suicides, a town where ideas are real and reality is shadow. She…
Social-networks can cause harm to others especially when not knowing how to use them the correct way. Internet sites such as Facebook and MySpace make it easier for predators to stalk or catch their next victim. Marcia Clemmitt argues, “But as Internet socializing grows, so do fears that the practice exposes the vulnerable – especially young people – to sexual predators” (627). Marcia explicates that teenager’s lives are put in danger as the social web sites increase. A website like MySpace is dangerous to the youth because some do not know how to keep their life private. Some teenagers enjoy posting personal information online without knowing that they are at risk of being molested. Young people should be careful with what they post or share…
They thought she needed to die because of her parents. She can only trust a boy that works at Mcdonald's and tries to find her brother and parents. Get pulled through the story of a suspenseful,terrifying, and mysterious story. The book, “A Girl Who was Supposed to Die”, by April Henry takes you through the adventures book of 213 pages. The author writes in 1st person…
The invention of the internet only made the explosion of information even faster. Teenagers put in on a blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram among others about anything, and have the information spread as fast as split seconds. This is how cyberbullying came up. “Cyberbullying is an increasing epidemic in our society and we, Americans can no longer wait a law to be a cure. A review of cyberbullying issues in light of American laws illustrates that the Supreme Court has been hesitant to approve law that will erode our Freedom of Speech rights” (McManimon). Cyberbullying is defined as a young person tormenting, threatening, harassing, or embarrassing another young person using the internet of other technologies, like cellphones, computers or etc. “Cyberbullying can lead to suicide. We are familiar with the stories about children and teenagers driven to desperate even suicidal acts after having been exposed to repeated harassment in cyberspace” (Foxman). Although the First Amendment protects Freedom of Speech, the government shall make stricter laws to prevent cyberbullying as it can destroy a person’s social life which can lead to suicide.…
So how is this technology being linked to the rise in teen suicide? Miner things like tripping over seemingly nothing and falling on your face, or the fact that you stuttered when you tried to talk to that really cute guy/girl can and very often are caught on someone’s digital phone. It is then sent to other students and may even find its way onto the internet. Something that at first was only witnessed by a few now has the possibility of being seen by thousands. It can now be talked and laughed about for days, weeks and even months, extending the embarrassment and humiliation over the same extended time period. Sometimes this extended period of embarrassment becomes seemingly unbearable.…
We learned from young people that, for those who are cyberbullied, it sometimes feels like there is no escape. Many suffer in silence for fear that parents will take away their Internet access or smart phone. For them, this would mean being cut off from a big part of their social lives. It can be hard for them to know where to turn for…
Previous and current research and statistics have shown that the rate of youth suicide, both in Australia and internationally, has increased a significant amount since 2009 and unfortunately only continues to rise (National Institute of Mental Health, 2013). This research project is designed at exploring the ways in which social media is involved and how it is has been able to influence and contribute to the increasing rates of youth suicide within the last two years. The research will be focusing on two major concepts which will analyse what forms of online social media (and social networking) contribute to youth suicide, as well as, identifying if there are mental health issues that youth begin to develop or experience due to online harassment and victimisation.…
Social media and mental health: Inappropriate use of social media is having a negative effect on the mental health of Irish youth, according to the Parliament of Ireland. A joint committee has recommended that a single body be assigned the task of coordinating regulation of social media content, states the report Addressing the Growth of Social Media and Tackling Cyberbullying. Of particular concern are cyberbullying, online harassment, exposure to unsuitable violent and sexual material and the decline of real social interaction. The report makes a number of recommendations, including discouraging children below the allowable age from opening…