Social Media In Middle School

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¨If your always trying to be normal, you can never know how amazing you can be¨ Maya Angelou. Do you think kids in middle school should have social media? Social media causes a lot of problems with kids in middle school. I think kids shouldn't have social media in middle school. Kids in middle school shouldn't have social media so they can post things and other people can share there stuff to other people and they can do mean thing with it. In the text it states, ¨One day eight months later, Ashley woke up to find her face plastered across Instagram, Twitter, and iFunny. Each followed by a cruel comments about her face.” As you can see, this is one reason I think social media is bad for most kids in middle school.
Another reason is that people

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