Social Network

Social networking is common among many people in society today. Sites such as Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Instagram, and Facebook are a major part in people daily life. There are around 400 million active worldwide users of the Facebook social site (SIRS).On the contrary, there are about approximately 20,000 people that erase themselves from Facebook. Everyone haves a voiced opinion about social media that are being used around the world today. There could be plenty of reasons why people are for or even against social media sites. Joe Ross says: “I’m still on Facebook and I’m a heavy twitter user and blogger,” he says “Most of the people I’m friends with are people I wouldn’t know if it weren’t for social Networking”. (SIRS). Nonetheless, Facebook is a dangerous site and people should take precautions when they use a site such as Facebook. Also, teenagers should be at least sixteen before they are able to begin use social networks such as these one. There are many reasons why regulations for social media sites should be enforced because of things such as inappropriate content, misusage, and privacy.
There are social media sites that just aren’t appropriate for children and pre-teens of a certain age. As you know, as parent it is your responsibility to follow up and check on the sites that your child uses and login into daily. There are site like facebook that your child may use day to day that have very inappropriate content that isn’t for their age group. Facebook is a site where people are able to post status of what’s going on in their life for that moment, post pictures, and meet hundreds of new people. To some that may not seem so much like a huge problem but, in reality it is.You may not know but there are certain people that are look at your page such as other adults, job, schools, and law enforcement (Gale).That’s why students that attend middle school, high school, and college are begin expelled because of the things that are on posted to their current Facebook profile (Gale).Over the years Facebook have let certain things come into their threshold that is out of line. There are games that people post to their wall and have other join in on by “hit” the like button. One of several games that get played on facebook is known as “smash or pass”. The overall purpose of the game is to hit the “like” button and the person will tell you on your wall post rather they would have sexual relating’s with you or would they rather pass and not do it.Another thing that people post on their profiles are pictures of nudity, drugs, alcohol and even partying.
Every social media site has a purpose behind why it was created. “Facemash” now known as “Facebook” was a site that was created by a young man by the name of Mark Zuckerburg that attended Harvard University. He even went to create a special version of the site for Harvard student named “Hot or Not” (LTK).The idea of the “Hot or Not” Facemash was to put two pictures up showing user pictures ID and they chose which picture was more attractive (LTK).The ideal purpose of facebook was to use a photo to help other students recognize other students. Not only that but it was also created so that they could be able to keep in touch with family and friends that were away long distance from them while they were away at college. The purpose behind why facebook was created and how it was to be used is now different today. Majority of people that uses facebook don’t use it correctly. There are things that get posted that could “be better left unsaid” as many say. There are so many people that keep up drama, arguments, fights, and much more.They have created and turned facebook into was they wanted it to be.
When signing into a social networking media the privacy that the site provides you might not be the first thing that comes to mind. It’s important to look into and taking precaution on protecting yourself on site such as facebook.Privacy is a very important thing when surfing on the internet sites. Posting things such as address, phone numbers, school, and job may not seem like something that may not be taking out of portion. Things like this may be the start of putting child privacy and safety into jeopardy (YS).Along with this lying about the age on a social site such as a site like facebook can also hinder the privacy setting that the sites. There is certain information that sites and social networking media requires of you in order for you to have access and use their site. But some of the information that is on these sites is not always a part of the selected few. Some sites may not tell enough information about their and therefore it makes it hard to even know what privacy is given to you before using their site.
In conclusion, although the ideas of social networks and media are based on good intension people take the idea and have it to what they want it to be. Things such as inappropriate content, misusage, and privacy plays a major role of why things are like they are today on social media sites. There need to be more enforce and regulation to more social sites. People uses these sites everyday several times a day and it important to enforce the rules that were made along with these sites for everyone. Little things like these can help keep a lot of the garbage that are on these sites like facebook, twitter, and flickr off.