How social media endangers the safety of our younger generations?

Social media platforms are providing us with great free tools for communication to express ourselves, our ideas, and make our voice heard by hundreds, thousands, and millions of people out there. However these platforms forgot one important thing, to protect us from exposing our lives, ideas, activities, and beliefs to a society that most of the time will judge us without any justifications. To a society that will publish fake stories with Taboo headlines, and make our kids who are under 18 exposed to cyber bullying, harassment and sexual abuse.

Its time for these social media platforms to set the limits on what people could say. It is time for them to make the move and protect us, protect our privacy and our lives. Yes I may be strong enough to handle a bunch of hatred comments, which are 100% not true. But what if our kids who are very young are exposed to a world where they could be cursed, bullied, and humiliated by people they don’t even know? 

How will social media platforms protect them? How could their parents protect them? How could the society protect them??

I had a look at the reporting forums of Facebook and Twitter that people could use when they are bullied or harassed and I was shocked with the outcomes. It took Facebook around 16 hours to check your report and even when they do, they get back to you with an auto-generated feedback that won’t even explain to you why they don’t consider the post, picture or page a bullying behavior. 

I was shocked with the outcome and this brought my attention to a new level that made me think of the following questions:

• What does that mean? If something goes wrong it should just go wrong?
• People could ruin my life and I can’t defend myself?
• They could harass me and I have to be fine with it?
• Is that the environment I want my kids to grow up in?

I am sorry to say a big NO to all the above questions. I don’t accept that and I do believe millions of people out there don’t accept that too. We all should be aware of the negative impact of social media on our generation, and how we all could be driven by negative social media that expose hate and discriminate the society into right and wrong.

Protect us and protect our kids