Monday, 4 May 2015

Children's Mental Health!

Does social media have a negative impact or positive impact on children's mental health? Be specific and say examples in your response. 

As well create a poster similar to the ones we constructed last week to raise awareness and build attention for children's mental health issues. Post this response and your picture on your blog. 



I think that depending on what you're on, what you post, and who you speak to is a large factor to pay attention to. for example let's say you're on Twitter and you're in a mutual was someone (they follow you and you follow them), and you guys begin to speak over direct message. When and if you become friends it could have caused a positive impact. How? The person you're speaking to could be someone funny or someone who makes you feel happy but if there's another person and this person doesn't make you feel happy and they're putting you down this could cause a negative impact. 

An example of a positive impact I have personally experienced would be to make friends over Twitter. A few people who i have spoken to for a long period of time are: Ange, Shay, Madison, Alaa, Rouba, and Paola! There are many others as well, but all these people have caused a positive impact on my life. Although to hear about a negative impact, I'll give you s story. My friend had known this girl for a while, and then the girl had all of a sudden just started attacking her at school and over social media. So like any sensible person, she blocked them and walked away from the girl at school. That worked until, the girl got her friends to attack her. In the end she had contacted Twitter and had their accounts suspended, but after that incident she didn't seem to be the same. 

As I do not use Facebook, im going to use the Unfriended example. In case any of you haven't seen the movie unfriended or have heard of it it's basically about this girl Laura Barnes who committed suicide because of this video someone had posted about her. The comments on the video were terrible, some slut shaming, others telling her to die and so forth. This had obviously been a negative impact. 

In conclusion, depending on the use for the social media it could either have a negative or positive impact. 

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