Problems of Accessing Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere As the use of technology grows at an exponential rate, it seems as though the general public 's reliance on technology advances equally. Since people have become accustomed to the presence of technology, parents tend to have relaxes constrains on their children 's online behavior. This is concerning because the youth is exposed to a source which allows them to connect universally with others by simply having an internet connection. The ubiquitous presence of the internet and instant messaging poses a problem for the younger generation because children are exposed to an unmonitored world and steps need to be taken so that children understand repercussions of their online decisions.
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This allows potential employers and schools to look at future employees or students to learn what the individual is truly like apart from their formal resume. Although many believe that this practice is not ethical, they fail to realize that "employers have the legal right to incorporate codes of conduct and policies within the workplace that create additional expectations and requirements for their employees (Levitt, 2014, para. 8). Therefore, employers have the full right to search an employee 's social media to see whether or not the employee is acting in accordance to the standards that the workplace upholds outside of the job. Due to this added responsibility, many hope to instill the value of thinking before posting. However, since those who are younger do not have a completely developed brain, they tend to make poor decisions since they do not have the ability to fully grasp future repercussions of their online decisions. In fact, this occurrence is so prevalent that even students at Homestead High School have been subjected to what some may call unreasonable search of his social media. One student in particular was supposed to be in the National Honor Society; however, because a teacher had seen his Twitter, he was not indicted in to the National Honor Society. The teacher claimed that he did not believe the student would be able to uphold …show more content…
The inability for teenagers to consider future consequences is due to the fact that all the portions of their brain are not fully developed, in particular the decision making portion of the brain. Scientists from various organizations such as the National Institute of Health and those from the U.S. Department of Health (Scholastic, p. 2) have claimed that the prefrontal cortex, a vital part to the brain which allows a person to consider future repercussions, has not yet been completely developed; while the limbic system, a part of the brain which controls emotional response, has been fully developed. As a result, teenagers are more likely to make emotionally-charged decisions without considering the consequences of their actions. Due to teenagers having more emotional decisions rather than rational decisions, they are responding to certain situations in a more drastic manner than an adult because teenagers are more worried about the change of their current status rather than how a particular event might be considered a minute bump in the road of life once they are able to look in retrospect. A specific example of cyber bullying which resulted in suicide is a 15-year-old girl, Phoebe Prince. Prince eventually ended her life because she was
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This allows potential employers and schools to look at future employees or students to learn what the individual is truly like apart from their formal resume. Although many believe that this practice is not ethical, they fail to realize that "employers have the legal right to incorporate codes of conduct and policies within the workplace that create additional expectations and requirements for their employees (Levitt, 2014, para. 8). Therefore, employers have the full right to search an employee 's social media to see whether or not the employee is acting in accordance to the standards that the workplace upholds outside of the job. Due to this added responsibility, many hope to instill the value of thinking before posting. However, since those who are younger do not have a completely developed brain, they tend to make poor decisions since they do not have the ability to fully grasp future repercussions of their online decisions. In fact, this occurrence is so prevalent that even students at Homestead High School have been subjected to what some may call unreasonable search of his social media. One student in particular was supposed to be in the National Honor Society; however, because a teacher had seen his Twitter, he was not indicted in to the National Honor Society. The teacher claimed that he did not believe the student would be able to uphold …show more content…
The inability for teenagers to consider future consequences is due to the fact that all the portions of their brain are not fully developed, in particular the decision making portion of the brain. Scientists from various organizations such as the National Institute of Health and those from the U.S. Department of Health (Scholastic, p. 2) have claimed that the prefrontal cortex, a vital part to the brain which allows a person to consider future repercussions, has not yet been completely developed; while the limbic system, a part of the brain which controls emotional response, has been fully developed. As a result, teenagers are more likely to make emotionally-charged decisions without considering the consequences of their actions. Due to teenagers having more emotional decisions rather than rational decisions, they are responding to certain situations in a more drastic manner than an adult because teenagers are more worried about the change of their current status rather than how a particular event might be considered a minute bump in the road of life once they are able to look in retrospect. A specific example of cyber bullying which resulted in suicide is a 15-year-old girl, Phoebe Prince. Prince eventually ended her life because she was