Should Parents Be Held Responsible For The Use Of Social Media?

According to Sam Fiorella in his article “cyber bullying, social media and parental

Responsibility“, bullying has become a much more pronounced thanks to the “growing

Popularity of social media” and that the parents of so called “cyber bullies” should be held

Responsible for providing their children with the means to torment others with the use of social

Media; he also states that children should not be allowed a “get out of jail free card” by being

Able to erase their mistakes on social media web sites and that their conversations should be

Monitored for hurtful behavior.

While I agree that parents should be held responsible for allowing their children unlimited access

To the internet and therefore social media, I do not agree with

Did bullying not always exist? Peyton

Quinn once said “all cruelty comes from weakness” and that is true, no one is cruel for the sake

Of being cruel, wicked behavior stems from our insecurities and fears not from the knowledge

That we won’t get caught. Moreover, while unlimited access to social media is not healthy for

Anyone, not allowing children of this day and age access to the internet is like not allowing the

Children of fifty years ago the ability to go to the park and talk to their peers. Because while we

Don’t like it, social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are the way children of this time

Communicate with each other. Furthermore, doesn’t monitoring any conversation in anyway

Oppose our constitutional right for freedom of speech? If social media sites were able to scan

Every conversation or “post” and then remove anything that they might find offensive or hurtful

Wouldn’t it take away, at least to some extent, honesty? The internet would turn into a place of

Flowery lies and shallow compliments. And although I do understand that parents would like to

Keep their children away from all the cruelty in the world, they cannot stay sheltered