The Dangers of Social Media
Statistics show that there’s as many as 747,408 registered sex offenders in the United States, in addition over 25% of teenagers claim that they have experienced cyber bullying (Enough is Enough), (Landau). Sexual predators prey on young teens and kids, with the development of social media sexual predators can easily have access to your kids and teens by unknowingly adding them as a friend. Furthermore approximately 22 million students encountered cyberbullying in 2011 (Megan Meier Foundation). Thus social media is a dangerous environment for an unsuspecting victim of an online predator or bully.
In-school bullying and Cyber-bullying are similar in behavioral ways and also the fact that it is most common in young people, certain behaviors include humiliation, harassment, aggression, and teasing. When someone gets bullied online nearly 85% of the time it is done by someone they …show more content…
Approximately 65% of online predators use social media to obtain personal information on their victim such as where they live, work, or go to school (Enough is Enough). It is important that people do not share their private information on social media, and to also add people that you don’t even know it is always better to be safe than sorry. Statistics show that as many as 200 million girls and 100 million boys will be sexually abused before they reach adulthood (Enough is Enough). When people are abused at a young age they grow up hating themselves thinking it was their fault that it happened to them, when in reality it wasn’t. Some predators abduct children and sexually enslave them for profit, at least 8 million children go missing each year (Enough is Enough). It is crucial for parents to teach their children about the potential hazards of talking to a random stranger online, even more so when the stranger is years older than
Statistics show that there’s as many as 747,408 registered sex offenders in the United States, in addition over 25% of teenagers claim that they have experienced cyber bullying (Enough is Enough), (Landau). Sexual predators prey on young teens and kids, with the development of social media sexual predators can easily have access to your kids and teens by unknowingly adding them as a friend. Furthermore approximately 22 million students encountered cyberbullying in 2011 (Megan Meier Foundation). Thus social media is a dangerous environment for an unsuspecting victim of an online predator or bully.
In-school bullying and Cyber-bullying are similar in behavioral ways and also the fact that it is most common in young people, certain behaviors include humiliation, harassment, aggression, and teasing. When someone gets bullied online nearly 85% of the time it is done by someone they …show more content…
Approximately 65% of online predators use social media to obtain personal information on their victim such as where they live, work, or go to school (Enough is Enough). It is important that people do not share their private information on social media, and to also add people that you don’t even know it is always better to be safe than sorry. Statistics show that as many as 200 million girls and 100 million boys will be sexually abused before they reach adulthood (Enough is Enough). When people are abused at a young age they grow up hating themselves thinking it was their fault that it happened to them, when in reality it wasn’t. Some predators abduct children and sexually enslave them for profit, at least 8 million children go missing each year (Enough is Enough). It is crucial for parents to teach their children about the potential hazards of talking to a random stranger online, even more so when the stranger is years older than