Facebook was once the top social networking sight in the
entire world just a few years ago. With the ability to post statuses about how
you feel, upload pictures, and mark certain times as well as special points in
your life that was all recorded onto one profile. Although most people have
switched over to Twitter, another social networking sight that prefers that
user Tweet often about really anything, some people still stick to Facebook
like younger teenagers.
A Boston father of a fourteen year old teenage girl was reached
an agreement for his daughter to quit Facebook for the next five months in
exchange for paying his daughter $50 in April and the remaining $150 in June.
The father gets her password and will be able to change it thus deactivating
the account and not permitting his daughter to reactivate it before the
contract is up.
I’m a teenage boy and I can even see this is stupid
parenting. Children should respect their parents and when a parent makes a
decision for you, assume it’s for the best. I’m unsure how it could be negative
taking away her Facebook account. If my parents ever told me to delete one of
my accounts I’d do it right off the bat because I respect my parents. Some
children in America these days apparently do not. It’s saddening.
I think that social networking websites, whether it is Twitter, High5, Facebook, Myspace, or any other site are more detrimental to our society than good. They cause depression and anxiety as well as other social and health problems. In this regard I am not particularly fond of any of this. So to me it is completely absurd that a parent would pay their kid to stop them from going online. A child should do whatever their parent says. And if they do not, they should find themselves in more trouble. A parent should under NO circumstances be paying their child to do what they are told. This is ridiculous and horrid in our society.
ReplyDeleteIan makes a good point. On social media sites, people can bully others freely and easily. People don't know how to have face-to-face conversations and that seems to be linked to social media use. The issue I have with this child is that she had to be paid to stop using Facebook. Parents need to have respect for their children and children shoudl respect their parents. Parents do a lot for their kids so the least we could do is listen and obey their rules. This is so sad and horrible but hopefully most kids aren't like this girl.
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