Should parents control the use of social media by children and young people? Without this control, can the influence of social media portals be destructive to the development of children and youth? Can some types of YouTube pages and thematic channels be considered as a complement to the didactic and educational process in schools?
Yes, social media portals can be destructive for the development of children and young people if too much time is spent by children and youth on browsing sidelines media portals, and especially if the pages are not developing capacity, intellectual skills are only advertisements for different products and services.
Social media portals can be a complement to teaching and educational instruments if they are under the control of parents, guardians and teachers. If children and youth use social media portals for a specific, limited, not too long time a day and if they browse websites that contain information that supplements knowledge acquired at school then social media portals can be a complement to the educational process and can be evaluated positively .
But unfortunately, such websites and thematic subpages on social media portals are rather scarce, the majority of information is not useful for education, entertainment and advertising of products and services. Many of the thematic websites that can supplement the knowledge acquired by students in schools are outside of social media portals.
An especially unique type of social media portal is the YouTube video portal, which contains various films, different thematically and different in terms of content. Some films may supplement the school's educational process for children and adolescents. However, there are many videos that do not contain relevant content and / or advertisements for specific products and services.
The problem is that for the purposes of viral marketing, such types of videos for the YouTube portal are created that children and young people think that they are watching a presentation recorded by one of the users of the portal and in fact they are watching an advertisement aimed at redirecting to a specific online store. It is important to control what children and teenagers watch on social media sites by parents, guardians and teachers.
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In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
Should parents control the use of social media by children and young people? Without this control, can the influence of social media portals be destructive to the development of children and youth? Can some types of YouTube pages and thematic channels be considered as a complement to the didactic and educational process in schools?
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Obviously parents have a role to supervise the time and quality spend on the internet. Interesting discussion... Following and making contributions would be valuable.....
Yes, it would be a clever thing to do. Moreover, parents should talk to children about the "online risks" and about the difference between virtual and real world.
Obviously parents have a role to supervise the time and quality spend on the internet. Interesting discussion... Following and making contributions would be valuable.....
Parents have a duty to make sure that during the developmental stages of a child they are guided by appropriate stimuli which are age appropriate. They should be aware of what the child is getting exposed to via social media, TV, etc. Have discussions with them when you try to restrict their time online or on social media. Inculcate other forms of interest or activity for your child so that they are not solely dependent on social media to run their lives.
Hi Dariusz Prokopowicz
Indeed yes. Children and young people are still in the formative stages. If allowed to use social media without monitoring/guidance, the influence of social media on them could be destructive.
Yes, I also think that the use of smartphones by children and young people should be subject to parental control. The need for this control results from the growing number of different information services available on smartphones, the growing number of children and young people addicted to the use of smartphones, the increase in the number of cases of neglecting school duties, the increase in the percentage of children diagnosed with vision defects caused by too long browsing of content posted on the Internet and read on a smartphone etc.
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Do you agree with me on the above matter?
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parents are the full responsible for giving good children to the society
up to 13 years don't allow use of social media. no need for them. they have to study book materials to develop understanding power
every day please sit some time to explain some of the subjects, moral ethics etc.
Parents must have their passwords and they should keep an eye on their activities until they are 12 years old.
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