Sunday, February 5, 2012

Kiddies on Facebook

I think that the internet is becoming difficult for parents to understand and regulate.  I also believe that more bad comes out of kids under the age of thirteen joining social networking sites than good.  If you consider the amount of cyber-bullying that goes on between kids online, you can see how kids can be incredibly destructive using the internet.  It bothers me that kids under the age of 13 have a Facebook page because it taints the credibility of Facebook and everyone who uses it for legitimate purposes.  I, personally, started using Facebook because its upheld by a certain standard which is why it is so useful to me in communicating with my friends.  I also do not agree with dogs having Facebook pages because they just get to be so excessive.  When does this end? Who is actually using the internet? What are we supposed to trust? Facebook used to be credible because you could contact people you knew existed and that you had some kind of real-world relationship with. Now, Facebook is less credible because there are so many pages taken up by pets and other non-humans or duplicate human who have more than one Facebook page.  I think that in order to solve this issue Facebook should come up with better ways of filtering out these "fake pages." I think that there should be a limit to the number of people allowed to register Facebook profiles per electronic device so that those who create these fake pages will be deterred from doing so.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you, Brianne, that having kids lurking around on social networks designed for adults (or at least college kids) is disturbing. But this raises an issue we'll be talking about in class today: Whose responsibility is it to police children's behavior online? Parents? Internet based companies? The government?

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