Persuasive Essay On Technology And Privacy

to communicate with each other, sending and receiving messages, so on. It was sort of difficult, but because it was part of their daily life, they did not really take it as a problem. Contrarily to the ancient time, the modern life is completely the inverse. Social media is here and used by everyone, it was made to replace the ancient life to a modest and pleasant life that’s present today. Communication is easier, as well as sending and receiving messages, follow by email, and also it entered the educational purposes. However, those who took the most advantage of it is teenagers, growing up in a place where technology is already settled, well they do not know the real life of the ancient time and cannot even live off the grid. The adolescent generation encounter a society where there is an easy access to technology anytime and anywhere. But do they have in mind that these technologies can actually be harmful and that there is no privacy in it?
Adolescent are mostly convicted in posting for examples their personal picture on websites such as Facebook, thinking that only their peers can see it. One thing that must be acknowledged is that with the evolution of technology “Facebook [is] less private and more public.” (Subrahmanyam) Many people can access it either by hacking it, or by creating fake pages. The use of Facebook has been

developed rapidly throughout the years. Teenagers use it with any parental control, which they are leaded to communicate with strangers. “ Adolescent online interaction with strangers [] is [more] common now as during the earlier years of the internet, may have benefits, such as relieving social anxiety, as well as coasts, such as sexual predation.” (Subrahmanyam) Facebook is the site mostly used for sexual predation because those teens, while posting their private picture, is first to attract people, and predator however uses it to harm them and sometimes share it everywhere just for their personal pleasure. Hence teenagers use Facebook as a tool of communication, they can also encounter racism and hate messages. Overall, it is known as Cyberbullying. With the increase of cyberbullying, teenagers in fact do reduce themselves to internet access in order to receive less hate messages. According to Sticca article, “adolescent rate the internet [] as critical to their social life, it may be that cyberbullying experiences ruin the pleasure of using [] [it].” The indirect form of bullying known as cyberbullying in fact pushes teenagers to restrict themselves to use Facebook. However, the blame must be on parents because teenagers have easy and free access to the internet and uses it whenever and wherever they want. They do not have any parental restriction, or an anonymous control from their parents to see what they post on the Facebook. Facebook must not be totally restricted to adolescent, but parents must have a knowledge about their children’s online activities.
The entrance of internet in the modern world have change the way communication used to be processed. In earlier times, communication was a big burden for many people, but the entrance of the internet made it easier. Adolescent are the one who took the most advantage of it, growing up in the middle of “technological evolution” (Sticca) became part of their social life. The internet, is on cell phones, computers, and tablets, which teenager uses it daily. Inside the internet, came the entrance of social networking, which the youth are mostly involved in for communication, making friendships, relationships, research, and homework through websites such as Facebook. Although Facebook is the site mostly used by adolescent, cyberbullying can’t be inevitable.
Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying is “an indirect form of bullying via electronic media.” (Carter) Knowing that traditional bullying is the physical or verbal aggression by one or more against the weaker, it's less made by teens compared to cyberbullying. According to Jemica Carter’s article “Cyberbullying: A 21st Century Health Care Phenomenon,” 30% of people have been bullied during school, and 82% using an online social networking such as Facebook. It is more relevant to adolescent to use social media to bully others because there is any face to face contact. Sticca approach in her article “Is Cyberbullying Worse than Traditional Bullying?” Social networking is mostly used to bully other because there is an increment in the audience and it is also sometimes anonymous and less feedback.
Cyberbullying has become the major problem of suicide in The United States and worldwide. 30000 suicide deaths in the United States and 1 million deaths worldwide every year (Luxton) have been identified all related to cyberbullying. Social media in fact is the leader of those suicidal rates. It was found that social media has websites in which people are attracted into that tell them how to suicide themselves. Luxton identified in his article that the internet does have prosuicidal information and including details on suicidal methods.
In fact cyberbullying is mostly common now days and the victims of it is teenagers. Teenagers today, mostly rely on the internet for many purposes and sometimes overuse it, which causes them to be harassed on social media such as Facebook, and does not know to whom they have to rely on to kill off the pain. For so to make them feel better they go to other social media or website in which they find people with the same pain as them and will commit suicide, which they think is the only solution. 240 prosuicidal websites have been identified (Luxton), which provides factual information on how to commit suicide. The suicidal commitment on the internet has developed and into “suicide pact” in which two or more people decide to die at a particular time. Now traditional suicide, which was in between friends and family have changed into “cyber suicide pact,” which consist of committing suicide between complete strangers. Social media is also used to leave suicidal notes. “[Those] suicide notes left by individual via social media are shared with the public instantaneously and may influence the decisions of other vulnerable people who encounter them.” (Luxton) Those websites that encourage those teenage to suicide themselves only take advantage of their vulnerability to instead of killing their pain in the proper ways it pushes them to harm themselves even more and also their family. 19.7% of females and 20.9% of males reported thinking about attempting suicide, while 17.9% of females and 20.2% of males reported attempting suicide (Hinduja) on a middle school survey.
Cyberbullying it’s probably not view as a big issue, but it is. For many people it’s mentally, how the person get intentionally and repeatedly target by another one through cyber harassment, humiliation, embarrassment and so. They have any good ways to kill of the pain so, they rely on the internet to find ways to end up with their life thinking that, that way it will be easier. The main question in here is, why and how they prefer to commit suicide rather than approaching a person for a better solution? Well, it’s all depend on the person’s environment. For instance, if the child does not have parents, or guardians who does gives them attentions they needs, they rather kill themselves. Sometimes they approach another friend instead, which they end up not having the solution they are looking for and end up feeling that they are misunderstood and at that stage they commit suicide. Thus technology has entered the modern world to ease the way we communicate through social media. Amazingly social media are mostly used by adolescent, which they made it part of their daily life. Although social media is on cell phones, computers, and tablets… teenagers are mostly convicted to use sites such as Facebook to interconnect with each other. However, Facebook were created to stay in touch with friends and families and meet new people. Hence Facebook is used by everyone now days, there are big disadvantages that users such as teens should be aware of.
Most of the cyberbullying increase rate is caused by the extreme use of the internet through sites such as Facebook.

Cyberbullying has a big challenge when compared to traditional bullying. Because cyberbullying is an indirect none verbal form of bullying, adolescent are more exposed to repeated harassment through hate messages and much more. For so, they increase the rate of suicide by adding feelings of isolations, hopelessness… Social media also contains websites in which those victims rely on, which take advantage of the victim’s vulnerability to provide detailed information on how to commit suicide in order to kill off their

pain.
Therefore, there are many solutions offered to avoid cyberbullying. First, there must be parental restrictions on internet use. Parents must be aware of their kids’ internet activities. Teenagers as well must step up against cyberbullying because there are website such as Facebook that provide specific tips. For example, block and report, don’t respond, don’t keep it secret, document and save if the harassment persist the victim can report it to the internet service provider and they will want to see the messages. (Wright) As Wright mention in his article, “the best protection against bullying is to learn what cyberbullying is, how to recognize it and how to stop it.”