Risks of Social Media
Social networking sites
are seen as being very ‘cool’ by children and they may be pressured by their
friends into joining them. The sites don’t actually present any threats that
don’t already exist elsewhere online. The danger is that the threats exist in a
new online environment you or your child may not be familiar with.
The
risks you need to be aware of are:
- cyber bullying (bullying using digital technology)
- Invasion of privacy.
- Identity theft.
- Your child seeing offensive images and messages.
- The presence of strangers who may be there to 'groom' other members.
Safety tools
Learn about and make sure your child knows about
the safety tools available to them on the service they're using. This might
include a block function to stop unwanted contact or the option of
pre-approving comments posted onto their profile before they are made public.Parental controls allows the user to set specific
searches to not be allowed such as pornography, gambling, and violence. This can
help parents stop their children going on certain websites.
To help guarantee that your child will be safe online make sure they never post personal information, be careful what images and videos they
post, keep a recording of abusive or hateful messages they receive, inform them
about online scams, if you suspect that your child is being groomed online get
in contact with the police or child exploitation and online protection service (CEOP).
Ruairidh: Everything has its risks even social media, it sometimes more than others it is such a big thing to use and there are people who use it for good or their own fun and others who use it to gain advantages for themselves, but yes more needs to be done but you will never stop it as there will always be people like this who do these bad things
ReplyDeleteIn regards of the content, i believe that as many people as possible should change their privacy settings to prevent any issues. Parental controls are a good thing for younger children to be protected. That's all i can think of, sound mate.
ReplyDelete- Harley