Kids Under 15 Should Not Have Facebook Pages

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Introduction: Facebook and children is a bad idea. Do you believe that kids under 15 should be allowed a Facebook account? That's the actual age decision should be up to the parents. The rule is arbitrary and silly. With supervision, you can still have control over who they friend, what they publicize, and they can learn the dangers in a safe environment, or, rules are rules. The internet especially facebook is a dangerous place and kids need restrictions. I am against the kids under 15 having facebook pages, and agree with the former statement, and present the following reasons to support my point of view. 1st Body para: First of all, Children should learn actual social skills and communication skills before using social media. Kids should be reading, learning math and science, writing stories or actually playing. If kids under 15 start using facebook he/she became addicted to it and become zero in studies and prefers facebook instead of studies. One just pretend to be studious. Why do our kids have to grow up so quickly? Ten and eleven year old children are on Facebook and don't even know why, they just think it is cool and then they are out of their parent's hair for 2 or 3 hours. What a waste for a young mind to sit idle in front of a computer reading Facebook pages. It is unhealthy to sit in front of any screen for long periods of time. They do it enough with TV why add the allure of Facebook? Kids need to be playing out and interacting with others kids face to face, not competing for the most friends on their facebook page or leaving them open to bullying or even worse. 2nd Body para: Secondly, if anyone remembers growing up kids have no filter between their brains and their mouth. Now with FB you've given them another way to attack each other outside of school and they do. Cyber bullying has become such a problem and children have killed themselves
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