With the widespread use of social media, it's important today to understand the effects that can have on your children later on the morning. Show will do just that when we talk to the CEO of Daniel, the social media world can be a wealth of information and quick communication, but it can also bring up a host of issues for children and teenagers. A recent survey by Consumer Reports found that as many as seven and a half million kids on Facebook are younger than 13 and 5 million Aires. Young is 10 years old or under. Even though there are age restrictions on Facebook, licensed social worker and president and CEO of Daniel, Jim Clarke is here this morning to talk about social media and how it affects children and specifically their social abilities. I guess I mean there's a lot of things we, it hasn't been around very long as a lot of things. We don't know about what it's doing to our kids. That'S absolutely true, and I'm not here to demonize, certainly social media, because you have great things like Facebook and and Google+ and Twitter. Those are for the first time in in human history. We'Ve been able to connect with people all over the world and, as children are starting to engage in this, we have to understand that they're going to have to be talented, to be able to do that. The problem is particularly with social media. Is that you can try these out aren't designed for kids, and we know that 46 % of the kids were 12 years old are on social media and by the time they're 18 are actually 14 about. 65 % of those kids are participating in social media and there are some things that it does number one it's a great way in which to connect to other people and it's teaching them how to be able to go about and do those types of things to Have a sense of community, and now we all know that one of the greatest things is the educational components. inactive instagram followers mean many schools are using social media components in order to communicate with their with their peers and with their educational institutions, and health is a great thing. Having being able to go online and doing those type of things, looking at good information is certainly a great thing for kids to be able to do, and as I mentioned, they become more technology savvy and that's how the world's going to be unfortunate. There'S a lot of garbage out there as well. So that's absolutely streams open themselves up to bullying. So what are some of the downsides that you've found to social media there Arsen downsides, and one of those downsides too, is that children will tend to be desensitized in terms of their interactions with other people, and that's one of the things you've got to be very Concerned about, in fact, we're calling it now with Facebook depression. The American Pediatrics Association has indicated that when kids often spend a lot of time on the on Facebook, they become very nervous and fidgety after that and they're calling that social to Facebook depression, but additional that that we're talking also about things that are talking about digital Addiction and Jim Strayer, who is a social media space specialist, he's, uses this rap because he talks about the difficulty of relationships because their their distance now and your addiction, your ability to to kind of need a lot of stimuli and your privacy issues. There are serious privacy issues that parents need to help make sure that their children are aware of. You know when you bully a kid or when you are bullied. You know it used to be. Somebody would write something nasty about you, maybe at worse and a locker on a bathroom stall or someplace in school or on your book. Now, kids are putting on face book and we've seen some of the effects thanks. Absolutely these people can see it and it's there for until that person takes it down, that's correctly, and even if they take it down to this mess, make sure it as it goes away. The Rutgers incident is a perfect example of that. I call it a when you do this. This has becomes a social tattoo, a digital tattoo, because it's out there because you may, I may send you a picture and I might say oh let me take that away, but you now have that picture and other friends of yours might take that picture of that Comment, so it's something for parents would be talking, kids need to realize that it is on there permanently. That'S why permanently Jim good information we're out of time?
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