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ConnorHassonSecondEssay 2 - 20 Dec 2024 - Main.ConnorHasson
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< | In a far ago time, I am told that children and teens have total control over their domain. Get home from school, go out to the sidewalks with their friends and come home “only when the lights come on” – referring to the streetlights that would come on near dusk. For teens, their friends would pick them up to cruise around, or even better they would have their own car. There were commercials on television to even remind parents that they had children “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Mar. 2024. I am told all of this, I cannot vouch firsthand for its veracity, but it certainly does seem the case that children in this generation, and likely within the last twenty years have had a significantly different childhood that the generations before them. A lot of that has to do with a cultural shift on education and high visibility cases of missing children, but a more crucial element is the constant contact that technology provides. A child now is in constant contact with their phone and even being tracked minute by minute by a parent on their phone. All that cannot be good for a child or teenager – there is more coddling, but while more independence in children’s lives has my full-throated support, I cannot condone the free for all of allowing online media. | >
> | In a far ago time, I am told that children and teens have total control over their domain. Get home from school, go out to the sidewalks with their friends and come home “only when the lights come on” – referring to the streetlights that would come on near dusk. For teens, their friends would pick them up to cruise around, or even better they would have their own car. There were commercials on television to even remind parents that they had children “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Mar. 2024. I am told all of this, I cannot vouch firsthand for its veracity, but it certainly does seem the case that children in this generation, and likely within the last twenty years have had a significantly different childhood that the generations before them. A lot of that has to do with a cultural shift on education and high visibility cases of missing children, but a more crucial element is the constant contact that technology provides. A child now is in constant contact with their phone and even being tracked minute by minute by a parent on their phone. All that cannot be good for a child or teenager – there is more coddling, but while more independence in children’s lives has my full-throated support, I cannot condone the free for all of allowing online media. | | |
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< | Children have a whole host of issues nowadays that previously either latent or not lying dormant at all. A lot of them are said by a whole host of research to stem from social media and children’s unfettered access to the internet at the tips of their fingertips. The Case for Banning Children from Social Media. The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2023. It is not hard to imagine how social media and a host of sites can impair or alter development in children, and although I grew up right on the cusp of this and can’t say for certain since I did not experience it firsthand. I do believe a lot of what ails young people today relates to social media and perennially being online. There are many great studies out there that say similar things, and I agree with them. However, on the subject of other freedoms, I am of the camp that children are not our little minions to do what they are told and for us to have complete control over them. Going that direction could in fact be equally as harmful as an unrestricted internet at their beck and call. I understand the argument for access to a search engine that allows basic information searching, but powerful social media algorithms and pornographic materials I believe are harmful to adolescents. | >
> | Children have a whole host of issues nowadays that previously either latent or not lying dormant at all. A lot of them are said by a whole host of research to stem from social media and children’s unfettered access to the internet at the tips of their fingertips. The Case for Banning Children from Social Media. The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2023. It is not hard to imagine how social media and a host of sites can impair or alter development in children, and although I grew up right on the cusp of this and can’t say for certain since I did not experience it firsthand. I do believe a lot of what ails young people today relates to social media and perennially being online. There are many great studies out there that say similar things, and I agree with them. However, on the subject of other freedoms, I am of the camp that children are not our little minions to do what they are told and for us to have complete control over them. Going that direction could in fact be equally as harmful as an unrestricted internet at their beck and call. I understand the argument for access to a search engine that allows basic information searching, but powerful social media algorithms and pornographic materials I believe are harmful to adolescents. | | |
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< | That is why I am interested to see how the ban on social media in Australia turns out. The mechanisms are fuzzy as to how it will actually operate, with a trial this year of different methods to halt the use of social media by those under the age of sixteen. The onus of noncompliance being on the tech companies, not citizens, Australia will halt minors logging into social media pages and tech companies will face a fine for noncompliance. Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children under 16. Reuters, 28 Nov. 2024. In the end, however, I believe it will be almost impossible to limit a regular child’s internet access if the parents simply don’t see it as an issue. New pseudo social media sites will crop up, or children will simply lie about their age. However, if parents are helicopter parents in the sense that they restrict the internet, but not helicopter parents in the sense that they allow their children autonomy in the real world, that balance is the one I believe is optimal for a child’s upbringing. | >
> | That is why I am interested to see how the ban on social media in Australia turns out. The mechanisms are fuzzy as to how it will actually operate, with a trial this year of different methods to halt the use of social media by those under the age of sixteen. The onus of noncompliance being on the tech companies, not citizens, Australia will halt minors logging into social media pages and tech companies will face a fine for noncompliance. Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children under 16. Reuters, 28 Nov. 2024. In the end, however, I believe it will be almost impossible to limit a regular child’s internet access if the parents simply don’t see it as an issue. New pseudo social media sites will crop up, or children will simply lie about their age. However, if parents are helicopter parents in the sense that they restrict the internet, but not helicopter parents in the sense that they allow their children autonomy in the real world, that balance is the one I believe is optimal for a child’s upbringing. | | |
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ConnorHassonSecondEssay 1 - 04 Dec 2024 - Main.ConnorHasson
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How Children Should or Should not be Restricted in the Age of Social Media
-- By ConnorHasson - 04 Dec 2024
Introduction
In class the other day, there was a healthy debate regarding the autonomy of children and what should the rights of children look like. I believe that, like many things in the modern era, a subsect of people truly has taken parenting to an extreme. An overly controlling hand of their children. However I think these parents to be incorrect, and that children and adolescents are too caged in at the moment and without the ability to roam as free as they once were, but social media and internet use is the dividing line for me.
Back in the Day
In a far ago time, I am told that children and teens have total control over their domain. Get home from school, go out to the sidewalks with their friends and come home “only when the lights come on” – referring to the streetlights that would come on near dusk. For teens, their friends would pick them up to cruise around, or even better they would have their own car. There were commercials on television to even remind parents that they had children “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Mar. 2024. I am told all of this, I cannot vouch firsthand for its veracity, but it certainly does seem the case that children in this generation, and likely within the last twenty years have had a significantly different childhood that the generations before them. A lot of that has to do with a cultural shift on education and high visibility cases of missing children, but a more crucial element is the constant contact that technology provides. A child now is in constant contact with their phone and even being tracked minute by minute by a parent on their phone. All that cannot be good for a child or teenager – there is more coddling, but while more independence in children’s lives has my full-throated support, I cannot condone the free for all of allowing online media.
Social Media
Children have a whole host of issues nowadays that previously either latent or not lying dormant at all. A lot of them are said by a whole host of research to stem from social media and children’s unfettered access to the internet at the tips of their fingertips. The Case for Banning Children from Social Media. The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2023. It is not hard to imagine how social media and a host of sites can impair or alter development in children, and although I grew up right on the cusp of this and can’t say for certain since I did not experience it firsthand. I do believe a lot of what ails young people today relates to social media and perennially being online. There are many great studies out there that say similar things, and I agree with them. However, on the subject of other freedoms, I am of the camp that children are not our little minions to do what they are told and for us to have complete control over them. Going that direction could in fact be equally as harmful as an unrestricted internet at their beck and call. I understand the argument for access to a search engine that allows basic information searching, but powerful social media algorithms and pornographic materials I believe are harmful to adolescents.
Possible Changes
That is why I am interested to see how the ban on social media in Australia turns out. The mechanisms are fuzzy as to how it will actually operate, with a trial this year of different methods to halt the use of social media by those under the age of sixteen. The onus of noncompliance being on the tech companies, not citizens, Australia will halt minors logging into social media pages and tech companies will face a fine for noncompliance. Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children under 16. Reuters, 28 Nov. 2024. In the end, however, I believe it will be almost impossible to limit a regular child’s internet access if the parents simply don’t see it as an issue. New pseudo social media sites will crop up, or children will simply lie about their age. However, if parents are helicopter parents in the sense that they restrict the internet, but not helicopter parents in the sense that they allow their children autonomy in the real world, that balance is the one I believe is optimal for a child’s upbringing.
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