Searching, frantically looking for days, fearing the worst, and praying for the best. Imagine sitting in your house while your child is missing. Police questioning you asking for all of your child’s details, height, weight, hair and eye color, clothing they were wearing. That is what Nicole Cable’s mother experienced in May of 2013. Nicole, who was 15 at the time, left her house to meet a 20 year old man she had met on a popular social networking website, Facebook, and never made it home. Today, five out of eleven children admit to meeting up with people they meet on social media sites (Charlton). One third of girls admit to meeting up with social media site friends and one in ten of them admit experiencing some form of sexual exploitation
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The revisions would make any collection of data from children under the age of 13 illegal. Zuckerberg wants to help Facebook, along with other social networking sites (SoNet sites), expand their boarders and be open to people of all ages across the United States. However, the FTC is adamant that revisions to COPPA are needed because the current laws are not up to par with the quickly evolving world of internet …show more content…
Rapid decisions and speaking without thinking are just two of many examples of teenagers and their quick actions. When children are online, the computer screen acts like a wall between them and their friends. Since children are not face to face with a person, there is no emotional connection to one another, leaving each other vulnerable to an attack. According to PBS, one in three kids have been cyberbullied, yet only 30% of cyberbullying occurs on social media sites. However, 40% of cyberbullying occurs in online chatrooms (Common). Why do these percentages differ? Online chatrooms present users the option to create custom screennames that once again, provide a barrier between them and the other account holders. Except this barrier can protect the identity of the bully that is only known as his or her online screenname. Thus creating another alias that usually cannot be traced back to the bully without help from
The revisions would make any collection of data from children under the age of 13 illegal. Zuckerberg wants to help Facebook, along with other social networking sites (SoNet sites), expand their boarders and be open to people of all ages across the United States. However, the FTC is adamant that revisions to COPPA are needed because the current laws are not up to par with the quickly evolving world of internet …show more content…
Rapid decisions and speaking without thinking are just two of many examples of teenagers and their quick actions. When children are online, the computer screen acts like a wall between them and their friends. Since children are not face to face with a person, there is no emotional connection to one another, leaving each other vulnerable to an attack. According to PBS, one in three kids have been cyberbullied, yet only 30% of cyberbullying occurs on social media sites. However, 40% of cyberbullying occurs in online chatrooms (Common). Why do these percentages differ? Online chatrooms present users the option to create custom screennames that once again, provide a barrier between them and the other account holders. Except this barrier can protect the identity of the bully that is only known as his or her online screenname. Thus creating another alias that usually cannot be traced back to the bully without help from