Risk and Benefits of Social Networking

In the first place, I consider t Social Networking site as a contemporary social issue. In our generation we have grown up with the physical environment. A little wooden doll made us happy and smile. We had many activities and games with peers. I remember how i spent my childhood which was playful and eventful. After school, I played cricket until its get dark with same age colleagues.  In short, i remember how I become matured person without the internet or any other device that has a capability to access the social networking sites.

On the contrary, today’s children have to familiar with the internet otherwise they stay behind the classroom. Because of the research based assignments, children have to visits many websites and find newest and unique information in order to make their assignments better. This is a severe expose to many kind of bad influences and threats. The “cyberbullying” is one of the threats that kids get victimized through social Networks. The children tend to follow or imitate the other people who they talk to and what they see from other people posts (Videos, Images) thought the social networking sites. For example, by watching unstandardized video about staying thin, children follow bad eating disorders. Depressed kids can post a video or images about the best ways to commit suicide, which will lead to another innocent child to experiment that when he/she is in a bad mode.

Moreover, since there are many unethical activities are taking place online, any computer can get exposed to viruses, adware or malware that associate with porn site and identity theft via email or social networks such as Facebook, Twitter. As a result, kids might get change to see what they shouldn’t see at his/her age.

As I believe, parents have no much of option to rescue their son or daughter from this social menace, because cyber social interaction has a part of the modern life. And also, they cannot restrict from them, since the social networking site are accessible from many communication device now a days. 

However, I see one good side of online social networking, which can help introverted children to learn how to socialize without physically appearing in front of others. This will lead them to initiation human connection before they meet.