Social Networks Harmful or Good??

Online social networks are harmful to the society because it caused too many problems to children and had increased more danger like privacy issues to the world.

Many would say that they can protect there account’s privacy, however there are still some viruses and anti theft that come into your account.

        On large social networking services, there have been growing concerns about users giving out too much personal information and the threat of sexual predators. Users of these services also need to be aware of data theft or viruses

         There had been many sexual predators online since social networks had started. They tend to scare or lie to network users into believing them. There had even been news saying about how sexual predators who are scamming  their love to innocent people and later it end up to be a murder case. I think that most of us had been hacked and gave out their personal information to people. Having social networks can also cause viruses into your computer. For instance, most of us may had experience ads from those social networks that can cause viruses. Viruses could be curable but some of us don’t have antivirus protection, so this may cause them to break down their computer.

Many young children had started to use social network websites and this could be a dangerous thing.

           This creates an environment where a sexual predator can "shop around," looking at pictures and information to determine the best target.   

Social network had caused many little children to be in dangered. Little children may had found that it is fun to have a social network however they are still young, so they wouldn’t understand how harmful it can be. There had been numerous numbers of kidnappers in the world, however there are actually more kidnappers online and I don’t believe that parents would want their children to be in danger. Parents should be more aware with their children.

 There are also other issues like young children had been starting to focus on social networking and wouldn't go outside to exercise. Exercise is really important and ever since social networking had started, there had been a low percentage of children willing to go outside to exercise. 

 

Websites that had supported my statement of how harmful social network could be is from :

        http://media.www.clarksonintegrator.com/media/storage/paper280/news/2008/01/21/Opinion/Internet.Social.Networks.Are.Harmful-3159006.shtml


         http://socialnetworking.procon.org/


       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service