Exposition piece

The first piece

Hashtag
#fake #me #desperatewannabe,
Instagram selfie Facebook lies,
Snapchat fraud did you see
#truth #nothing #sadnessinmyeyes?
By Thomas lefort
January 2, 2021

The second piece

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMJody-Anne Lawrence

With the advent of social media, everyone has got into the game. Including children. But should this be a space for

your tiny tots? And what are the guidelines for your children to be introduced and operate on social media?

Hillary Evelyn-Birch, the mother of a now nine-year-old, told Outlook that she created a Facebook page for her son

when he was an infant. It was never to showcase her bundle of joy to the world, but rather to family and friends near

and far to keep them up to date with her bundle of joy.

"It was an easy way to just keep everyone up to date, and my page had already been bombarded with individuals that

were associated and not quite yet friends and not family. So I was not quite comfortable sharing everything about him

on my page," she told Outlook.

Her son knows the page exists, but Evelyn-Birth is not ready to hand it over to him fully, and may not be ready to

anytime soon.

ONLINE PREDATORS

 
Evelyn-Birch is aware of the predators on the Internet, and she is not ready to expose her son to that. His social

media curiosity is being piqued as she allows him to watch age-appropriate videos on YouTube, and he is becoming

more curious and asking about his own channel. But she has refused, and has explained to him why.

"I do not just tell him no, I tell him why and that he is not ready for it. I explain predators to him, as well as cyber-

bullying and even phishing, but I break it down so that he can understand and he does," she told Outlook.

She explained that sometimes the problem is actually the fact that parents say no without explaining why which builds

the child's curiosity. They are going to learn about these things anyway, and she believes that it is best for the parent

to introduce it in an appropriate way. This factor is something that Associate Clinical Psychologist Justine East

believes is important.

East believes that a parent cannot avoid their child getting involved in social media. Once they start hearing about it,

they will be curious, so it is best for them to start the discussion about it first, so that the child has the correct

understanding. This way, you can even be the one to introduce your child to social media, and you will be able to

communicate about it before they take the plunge.

There is no set age for introducing one's child to social media. Both East and Evelyn-Birch agree, however, that

parents should delay it as long as possible. East believes that parents should allow their child to develop their social

skills and physical interpersonal relationships prior to. Evelyn-Birch believes that she still needs to maintain a bit of

control of the child's social-media activity - not snooping on him, but rather to know what people are sharing with him.

"I would like to wait until he is a teenager. When I know he has the understanding," she told Outlook. She added that

this would not be until he is a teenager, unless Facebook could give her some comfort that she could monitor his

account.

"With Google, you can link your accounts to it and once a post goes out, you are notified as to what it is. I would need

this comfort if I am going to let him go on at 13. But otherwise, I will hand over the Facebook and, every now and

again, have him share with me what he posts. I want to have a relationship that he tells me everything. I will never

snoop behind his back, but I need an open discussion at all times," she admitted.

OTHER FACTORS
 

However, there are other factors that parents should consider when exposing their child to social media. East spoke

of a study done by the University of Birmingham, that concluded that due to the wide influx of culture, languages,

music, and videos that children are exposed to on social media, this will eventually impact their behaviour and values.

She pointed to another study by research psychologist and educator Dr Larry Rosen in 2011, that noted that

overexposure can actually impact a child's physical health and make them prone to depression when they become

teenagers.

Being proactive and vigilant is all a parent can truly do. Evelyn-Birch has already created a Gmail account for her son,

even though she has not presented it to him as yet, and doesn't plan to for a few years.

"This will avoid the baby this and the bad boy that, as email addresses that he would eventually have to change when

he eventually needs to put an email on his rÈsumÈ," the proactive mother told Outlook.

She and East believe that there must be a talk between parents and their children. If there is not, then children are

left to learn on their own and that is how mistakes and dangerous situations arise.

Next week, we will examine and outline how to introduce your child to social media.
Good morning teacher and my fellow’s classmate, the theme for my internal assessment is social
media and the topic the impact of social media on the youths in spring village community. The
topic that I have chosen to present this morning/afternoon is one very important to me. Have,
seen the many social media issues that arise from addiction, cyber bullying and many other
factors. however, knowing the impact, it has on the youths in my community, it catches my
attention to go a little deeper in the research. Social media is a crisis in spring village. This recall
the issues arise in the community of social media. The challenging within spring village the lack
of technology to the more advance parents who can access technology easier. The lack of social
media can lead teenager to a bad psychological behavior toward each members of the
community. It can also lead to crime and violence in the long run. According to Amy Jo martin
in a quote ‘social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we perceived, both
positively and negatively. Every tine you post a photo, or update your status, you are
contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand’. As a matter of fact, I strongly
belief teenager should take the right protocol before posting any thing online because they don’t
know the danger of it. In additional social media has a strong impact on teenager in my
community. On the other hand, technology is increasing rapidly in my community because of the
new cov-19 disease, the government give back tablets, laptop and phones to make youth engage
in academic learning. Nevertheless, to get the full information of this topic I got two sources to
engage in this research. The first piece was a newspaper article from Jamaica gleaner on Tuesday
July 4, 2017 12: 00 am by Jody Anne Lawrence. However, the newspaper article entitled “social
media and your child”. In the first piece of information by Jody Anne Lawrence, she refers to
Hillary Evelyn birch the mother of a nine-year-old boy. The article gives a brief explanation of
social media, the impact of social media and the disadvantage of using social media. In addition,
Hillary Evelyn birch gives full supervision of his son using social media. She checks up on his
son 24/7 to ensure his son his on the right programs. She also said she not ready to make his to
fully engage in social media because she knowns the predators that’s online. The second source
was a poem by Thomas lefort, entitled” hashtag” January 2, 2021. The author is saying that
social media is fake that you can’t believe everything you see with yours eyes. The problem I
face was the internet connection, I was not able to access the information at the pace that I want
to. The Wi-Fi was giving a lot of problem to get online and to access the information. The
researcher has it very difficult to explore the topic, the researcher went on all different platform
to get information, but the researcher finds it very stressing. According to the primary source the
researcher carried out, the questionnaire was the most difficult piece of information to sources
because of the cov-19 disease the questionnaire was very hard to conduct. Although the
researcher used all cov-19 protocol to bring out the research. In conclusion I want give my
teacher thanks for giving me this internal assessment without her I wouldn’t be able to do this
assessment.
The researcher uses two type of source to collect the information primary and secondary sources.
The primary source was questionnaire carried out in my community to find out the impact of
social media on youths in my community. However, the statistic was proven by the questionnaire
that a person spends 2 to 3 hours on social media. The secondary source was from poem, poetry,
newspaper article and music videos. The credible source was from the Jamaica gleaner for giving
the researcher a better understanding of social media. A source from the social media marketing
statistic 3.5 billion social media user worldwide.