Hi partners!
Today I would like to talk about a
daily topic which affects extraordinarily children: social networking sites. If
people use them in the correct way, there should not be any problem but most of
kids do not do a proper use of social networking sites. So I am going to talk
about the importance of this topic in children’s daily life, and how they
impact on their studies.
First of all, more and more children
are using social networking sites. This is not the most important problem but
they are younger and younger, and we do not know where the limit is. Moreover,
some adults are taking advantage of this situation and a new risk –called
grooming- is appearing, in which an adult gains child’s confidence with a
sexual purpose; and many children do not know how to solve this kind of
problems. Then, there are more risks such as sexting –to share photos or videos
with erotic content between young people who are extorted causing significant
psychological harm- or the ciberbullying -the harassment between children on
the Internet which involves a reach that can generate also much damage even
relatives and friends-.
In addition, they also influence on
children’s studies because social networking sites interrupt them to go on studying
or doing the homework, usually they are looking at their mobile phone because
they need to know their friends constantly, and they cannot concentrate.
In this sense, many children are starting to have misspellings because of the
language they use in social networking sites, and for this reason they
sometimes do not know how to write some words or doing it in a wrong way
unconsciously.
Another important point to bear in
mind is the new ways of relationship among children, because it seems like if
they live in a virtual world and it causes that some of them have a split
personality. Most of kids are very brave when chatting with other children by
social networking sites but they are completely different if they do it face to
face. Some of them seem to have missed the social competence and it is
unfortunate.
To sum up, I would like to add that
some of the children who send photos among themselves then they can have big
problems because the photos go on being uploaded in spite of having been
deleted. In this sense data protection law can be vulnerable and children
should realize of it.
In my opinion, social networking
sites are not harmful for adults but they are very dangerous for children,
because they are not prepared for them. Furthermore, they are very addictive and
we should solve this kind of problems
which can have irreparable consequences. Finally I just want to stand out the idea of living in a virtual word, because from my point of view it is a shame to see how children are carrying out their relationships.
See you soon,
