When children have access to technology and to communicate to anyone, a whole new form of bullying takes place: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can make a child feel so frightened and unsafe that they feel as though this world has gained a brand new level of danger. A child could feel so helpless that they could take their own life. A man named John Halligan informs an article about his son named Ryan Patrick who killed himself in 2003 after being threatened and bullied by his classmates online for months (“Prosecuting Cyberbullies”). This type of bullying that technology has created makes bullying a child easier because the bullies do not have to see the victim face to face. That gave the bullies more power and led Ryan Patrick to take his own …show more content…
Releasing children into the world of technology can also release the children’s personal information to this world. Is allowing technology into the hands of a child worth a child’s safety, or as far as their life? Social media is used to share ideas or opinions; however, what kind of message is society teaching children when opinions encourage children in the wrong way such as telling a child that they cannot be pretty unless they are skinny or they have to participate in the newest trend, even if it is stupid or life-threatening, just to “fit in”? These influences make social media have many negative effects that could make a child have many emotional and mental issues. On an article about the positive and negative impacts of social media, the author explains, “Opponents of social media argue that such platforms… encourage self-promotion and self-centeredness … Frequent users … can suffer from stress and loneliness as a result of social media use. Social networking … has not had the transformative effect on politics and activism that supporters claim” (“Social Media”). Using social media can create children into people who rely on other users of social media to compliment their appearance. It can develop children into being self-absorbed …show more content…
What benefit do children get from playing such gruesome games? Violent video games may not have any benefits in the real world, but as sickening as it is, these video games teach children that there are rewards in killing someone. In an article, the author writes about Linda Stender, an American Democratic Party politician who says, “‘Such games,’ she claimed, ‘send a message that “violence and death have no consequences outside their TV screens’” (“Violent Video Games”). The violent video games show children that hurting or killing someone earns a person points in the video game and that there are only positive consequences and advantages. Having these grisly thoughts in a child’s mind cannot be good for a child’s mental health. In an article, the author reveals recent studies, “... exposure to violent gaming may … temporarily change the brain… In a 2011 study … a week of daily video gaming, brain scans of small group of volunteers showed less activity in the regions connected to emotions, attention, and inhibition of impulses compared to participants who played nonviolent video games” (“Violent Video Games”). Violent video games cause temporary damage to the brain including making people less emotional and sympathetic, and have less of an attention span than people who play video games that are not violent. Having these thoughts that killing or harming someone should be