Facebook and children

by Abdulrahman Alessa

   

Each family has different motives for their children to use Facebook. On the one hand, the parents who never use Facebook, or they do not have enough knowledge about Facebook usually do not allow to their children to use Facebook. On the other hand, the parents who have a lot of knowledge about computers allow their children to use Facebook at early age. Each side has many benefits; however, children should not be allow to use Facebook due to, psychological, physical, and mental aspects.

    The first reason of evidence of why Facebook is not good for children is psychology and there are three areas. First of all, Facebook makes children feel depressed. For instance, children obtain the depressed faster than adult, so children should not use Facebook. Also, it could result in a change in how they communicate with other people. Secondly, the rage of using Facebook it might bring health problem children. Occasionally, according to one India news that Teens who use Facebook more often show more narcissistic tendencies while young adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological disorders, including antisocial behaviors, mania and aggressive tendencies. Furthermore, children will share and see many things that not allow for people in this age. Thirdly, another problem with Facebook that teach children to be loners with no realizes. To illustrate, they will use Facebook to fallow or to look everyone lift does not matter he knows or not. For example, one of my friends every day stays on Facebook from 3-6 hour, and he never gone to anywhere. To sum up, Facebook has several things that make us should not allow to our children to use it which are make the children feel depressed, make them obtain the anger faster than normal children, and make them loners.

     The next piece of evidence that made Facebook harmful to children is physical and there are three different major. Firstly, children in the earlier age needs to sleep more hour than adult, so using Facebook will make them stays longer and causes less sleeping. To illustrate, as a result from scientific research children who stay on Facebook or play video games for a long time and they do not take enough time for sleeping, usually will not participate in class. Also, children will feel exhausted and will not pay attention in their class, so that make them obtain less grade. Secondly, a child is more vulnerable of dermatology than else such as hand injuries, and Facebook is the fastest way to obtain these diseases. For instance, when children use public computer in school or library, they do not realize how many bacteria in the keyboard. For example, researcher took one keyboard from public place and toilet to find out which one has more bacteria after many tests they found out that the keyboard has more bacteria than toilet. Lastly, eyes problem one of biggest suffer for children. To illustrate this point, children do not care about their health spicily eye because they can stay as much as they can with Facebook, and they do not now about the adverse effects to their eyes from the screen flash. Additionally, the mobility from one page to another in Facebook, and watch video might cause eye keratitis. To summarize, Facebook is felled to children in several way such as less sleep, infectious diseases and eye diseases.

     The last justification that shows us Facebook is not health and safe place to children is mental and there are three areas which are greatly impacted. To start with, Facebook will push children to conduct that activity in a place or time when a parent cannot watch them. For instance, children usually do something and do not think about the consequences, so Facebook can leads them to do these bad things. For example, there was one German girl put invitation in Facebook for her friends and everybody. While her parents were outside, the party started and there were over than 3000 person outside the house, so that made a lot of noisy to the neighbors and haul area. After that police came, then they called her parents to come and they found their house in miserable situation. Second, children might know people in Facebook have a record. For instance, children and teens might know drug dealer, or they might read about people comments that explain specific thing about drug or what they feel when they try it, so children will want to try this drug. Additionally, researcher found that children who use Facebook are more affect to alcohol then else. Third, children who overuse Facebook have less social relations. To illustrate, parents teach their children how to respect and how to keep the relations between friends and family, but Facebook does not because when they use Facebook and other sites they will learn to break up from people very fast. For example children are very sensitive, so when they put their picture or comments that everybody can share some of them makes jocks or bad comments that will make children feel disappointed, and it might change their behavior. In sum, Facebook is cause bad rational to children, which are Facebook will push children to conduct that activity in a place or time when a parent cannot watch them, children might know people in Facebook have a record, children who overuse Facebook have less social relations.