Social Media Blamed for Acts that Hurt Kids

               Dangerous Acts are Being Pinned on Social Media



Tide Pod Challenges on YouTube.

  Are media to be blamed for people doing acts that got hospitals full of patients, and poison control receiving tons of calls on Tide Pods? Many people believe so, but really, people post videos of these acts to get themselves famous on the web, and thus many have been sent to the hospital with life threatening situations. Social media is not the cause of dangerous acts done by children. First of all the media have deleted many videos, parents should be the blame, and sadly these activities have been done way before social media.

  Even though many people post acts on YouTube, the sites have been deleting many of these videos. Up to a thousand videos have been deleted especially by YouTube, hoping to disencourage people to take the risks of the acts. Carro supports, "Indeed over the years, YouTube has removed thousands of clips of dangerous acts, most recently those involving Tide Pods." With so many of these videos being uploaded, not all of them can be deleted, but the sites have tried extremely hard to delete as many they can. Many of the Tide Pod challenges have been deleted. So is the media really doing nothing to disencouraging these acts? Or just encouraging people even more?'

  Parents should be responsible for what their kids are doing. Kids do not have a fully developed brain, but their parents have a set brain, and they are the ones that know that safety is more important than the world's attention. Kids are also parents' property, and they should keep an eye on them, and protect them, like a sacred treasure. Carro claims, "It should be up to parents....not YouTube-to monitor what kids post and watch online." Parents have to do everything to help their kids not to injure themselves, by watching over them, and monitor their activities. Yet, if parents don't care about their kids, why bother give birth to any?

  Long before the media started, people have been doing dangerous acts. In Ancient Rome, people watch gladiators (which BTW, are slaves) fight each other to the death in the famous Colosseum. In North America, the Ringling Bros Circus, showcased many dangerous acts in front of its many guests. People in the world have been doing life-risking acts, way before the media came out. Carro explains, "Just like the ancient Romans cheering on gladiators, we are the ones watching, liking, an sharing." If people are blaming social media for the emergency calls because of the videos, then how about the people that did these acts in ancient times? Who inspired them to do these acts? Themselves, urged to be famous, not others, but their's.

  Regardless, many people disagree, and that they believe that media sites should be taken for blame. Yes, but people have been doing these acts long before the Internet came out, how can you blame the media? Or how can you blame of death, when death exists when living things came to life? Like how?

 Nevertheless, people have views of everything in two opinions--Good and Bad. In this case, people blame and don't blame social media for the death risky acts done by many children. Well, social media have deleted many encouraging videos, parents are influences of the children, and lastly dangerous acts have been performed long before the media. Many people blame the media, but are they really the ones to be blamed?



Works Cited
Carro, Mackenzie. "YouTube Made Me do it." Scholastic News. April 2018. Magazine. Accessed 2 April 2018.

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