THESIS STATEMENT: Social Networking is one of the major causes of cyber bullying and personal fraud which lead to depression, and privacy issues among teenagers.
I. Social networking causes cyber bullying and personal fraud.
A. It causes cyber bullying
1. No direct contact between bullies and victims that is why bullies do not fear anymore.
2. Social networking is accessible for bullies to find victims.
B. It causes personal fraud
1. Scammers steal identities for financial gains.
2. Posers threaten one’s relationship to the community. II. Cyber bullying and personal fraud leads to several problems.
A. It causes depression
1. It is embarrassing to the victim’s part.
2. It brings fear to the victim.
3. It instills traumatic experience to the victim.
B. It causes isolation
1. It weakens strong ties between the victim and the people surrounding him or her.
2. It interferes with the interpersonal skills.
C. It promotes invasion of privacy
1. It trespasses the personal space of the victim.
2. It plagiarizes the personal information of the victim.
Introduction
A social networking is an online interaction service that managed to build people and connect them with shared interest. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter has attracted millions of users who have integrated these sites into their daily practices. Some sites cater to diverse audiences while others attract people based on their common language or national –based identity by making their own blog in the web. Last year, there are 483 million daily active users on average in December 2011 and they had 845 million monthly active users at the end of the said year (Facebook, 2011). Moreover, these sites are becoming so popular in the status quo because it continuously attract many people especially