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Social media is a new landscape, and yet it is almost as relevant and real as the one we actually live in. As mentioned in the video, teenagers are always on their phones and thus an action on social media is as impactful as an action in real life, be it bullying or protesting. Thus, a school, as an institute promoting safety and education, would hold it their responsibility to safeguard its students. The video accurately points out that the policies and laws for such 'monitoring' are still fresh, so it is the school's duty to see where the red line is, so to speak. The questions raised here are provocative, to say the least. While most schools are averse to 'fishing', they are not averse to judging students for what they post. My opinion is that social media allows personal information to be displayed on a grand stage to the rest of the world, people's likes, dislikes, and temperaments are all broadcasted. However, this means that so are their mistakes. The generations of the past were both blessed and cursed. They did not have twitter but they had certain freedom that technology prevents. How can we know that what a student posts is an accurate representation of who they 'currently' are? How do we know that what we call bullying or inflammatory speech may be nothing more than a joke taken out of context? Now, the fact remains that if left to their devices, students can concoct rather hostile environments, so some monitoring it seems is definitely required.
ReplyDeletein the modern world social media and the internet play a major role in all of our lives. everyone is free to express their opinions and views on different platforms such as twitter, instagram, snapchat etc. what people fail to understand is that the majority of social media users are impressionable teenagers. these teenagers often comment and support harsh ideas that they cannot fully comprehend. in my opinion schools and educational institutions should have rules that allow them to correct misguided students that are supporting the wrong ideas such as racism and sexism on social media to help them grow to be good people.
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