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I think social media is a problem, but I also wonder which came first. Are the kids that do the drugs more likely to use facebook than the kids who don’t. Studies can often be skewed one way or another.

Social media have created a space for pedophiles, thieves and identity theft to flourish. People’s enamor with the sites has created an opportunity for them to escape reality and interact more with “friends” on-line than their own family. There are days I want to throw my wife’s iphone into the lake. She and others I know keep their head buried in facebook for hours on end, ignoring the “real” people around them. Ok, so maybe I am a bore and maybe you are too if your family is spending too much time on social sites but I fear the trend will result in generations who do not know how to carry on a conversation or interact properly with people. The movie “Surrogates” presages an era where technology negates the need to ever leave the house. It may prove to be all too true in the next few decades.
For kids, parents need to limit on-line and phone interaction with social sites. For adults, well divorce them.

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I don’t think this has anything to do with Facebook. Society is interacting through the computer, by text messaging, etc. I heard some people will not even talk to you unless you text message them. The parents need to take more interest in their children instead of having their face buried in the computer. Monkey see, monkey do.

Let’s call it anti-social networking. It’ causing a separation of society. Humans are just like every other animal on this planet. They need to be in the presents of others of their species to know how act and feel. Someone sitting alone in the dark and sending messages and saying things they would not have the nerve to say looking someone in the eye. This is anti-social behavior.

For example. To socialize a dog, it needs to be in the presents of other dogs to know how to act as a dog. You cannot show a dog a picture of a dog and think it’s socialized. Humans are no different.

If you have something to say, look me in the eye and say it. Don’t send me a message or post on an anti-social networking site.

As a parent with 3 kids:14,12,9, I definitely see the effect it’s having on my kids peers. The narcissism definitely. I would say texting is worse.

Had a casual conversation with a business owner who happened to be in an AT&T store when I was discussing texting with an AT&T employee. He spoke up and joined the conversation and said – he see’s job applicants in interviews that can’t look him in the eye. They’ll do an interview with their heads down as a natural reflex.

As for facebook – I often wonder about what a grown adult is thinking constantly posting pictures of themselves. But the stranger issues are the college age kids who are spending their lives taking hundreds of pictures at events that they should actually be enjoying. Kids, in my community, mostly just collect facebook friends at their schools – but I don’t see what goes on in other homes.

Facebook though, has been a gift in that I have used it personally to re-kindle friendships from the town I moved from as a child.

The beauty of studies is that – if you look hard enough – you can almost always prove your hypothesis right. So I guess I need to tell my kids they need to become drunken stoners.

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What we have already learned from studies of watching too much TV is that parents must be more involved in their child or children’s lives and turn off the TV, the music, talk radio and limit or totally shut off Internet social media time.

For example, when I finally bought our daughter a cell phone when she was in high school, I signed up with our cell phone provider to block all text messages so she could only use the phone to call and talk to people and the rule was if she ever went over the allotted minutes of the plan, she would lose the phone for the rest of that year. One time when her phone went off in class and the teacher confiscated it because the ringing disturbed the class, she lost the use of that phone for the rest of that semester. She never forgot to turn if off again when she was in school.

As for TV, my wife and I decided to leave the TV off during the school week and control what was watched and the number of hours watched as a family on the weekend, which was usually two hours for a movie or documentary selected by the parents and not the child and while our daughter was in K to 12 school, there was only one Internet connection where we could all see what someone else was doing. The rule was she could use the Internet to do research for homework.

Now that she’s attending Stanford and has joined Facebook, when she is home, we see little of her as she is glued to the Internet but her grades in Stanford were all B’s or better he first year there since she had developed discipline and good study habits without distractions in public schools.

As a family, we ate dinner together with no TV or radio distractions, which was the house rule

When parents allow children to spend most of their free time outside of school watching TV or on social networking sites such as Facebook is that parents lose influence in raising their own children and the media becomes the parent.

Parents must set rules and learn to say no. Families must sit down together and eat home cooked meals without distraction from any source of media so parents talk to children to find out what is going on in their lives. Family values will only return when parents do this.

When a child has a problem to solve in life, he or she should be coming to parents first instead of getting that information from friends or strangers from Internet social media sites.

Every family I know of where the parents set these types of limits and rules where family time was family time and all distractions had to be off and/or were limited and children did not have easy access to the Internet without supervision, the children grew up earning a good education, were polite and interested in other people face to face and did not demonstrate the problems we have been seeing from children that do not grow up in these types of old fashioned homes that are now endangered.

Really good points. Social media brings out the showboat in people of ALL ages.

When I first friended offspring of my cousins, I was aghast to see … ok, yeah, questionable behavior. Drunkenness and stonerism across the board, body piercings and extensive tatts in fair haired second cousins of the female persuasion. Being hung over and late for classes, etc.

They were just bragging to their friends, “nanner nanner, my life is more exciting than yours.” Once in a while I would “like” something that was humorous or positive. That was about it.

In one case a favorite “threatened” to cross a dangerous river on ice floes. I was glad I saw that one; he would not be the first to die that way. I like to think my caring and panicked response made him change his mind.

Sometimes nobody listens. On Facebook someone usually does. For some of us, that makes social media a lifeline.

I’ve noticed an interesting development this year. The cousins are starting to post long hours spent on the job, the high price of filling their tanks and the desire to have their own digs. They’re growing into responsible adults.

I’m more concerned about those who have grown silent.

Facebook and other social media sites that encourage the gathering of imaginary friends don’t create stoners — they attract them. Any person who dedicates their time to building hordes of imaginary “friends” is a total f***up who does not have the capacity for real relationships and meaningful interaction.