Teenage Facebook users have easy access to information about sex and to pictures with sexual content. Being an active user of Facebook for a teenager means, Their point of view on sex and their sexual lives is strongly changing and the feeling of shyness and being awkward is fading away.
Tracey Cox, a well known sex and relationships expert said: "On the positive side, it means teens are much better informed about sex and almost all research suggests access to good, non-judgemental information about sex decreases the incidence of pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections”. It might seem useful that the youngsters are being informed about sexual content, but it is important to point out that many information they get from Facebook and from the Internet in general may be false. When a teenager have older friends in friend list on Facebook, he or she tries to be equal with the older ones and postings or photographs they upload in order to feel mature and interesting to other people are very often not appropriate to teenagers age. "There's no doubt that Social Network Communities have had a dramatic impact on teenage sexuality and their access to information about sex."
The fact that teenagers have the access to information with sexual content is no longer something unknown, hence parents should be aware of it and try to educate their offspring about the consequences of premature sexual behavior.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2627672/Teens-becoming-sexually-bolder-because-of-Bebo-Effect.html
Annie, the statement, that Facebook increasing sexuality or sexual life of youngsters seems very interesting to me. I have never thought about it this way but I would slightly disagree for many reasons. Facebook seems to me one of the more mature ways of talking to people when it comes to different social networks. There is thousands of chatting rooms all over the world but since the beginning of my use of FB, I feel like I am able to decide who will be my friend, who will I talk to as well as who from my friend are able to see my wall, photos or statuses. I agree that sexual life of young people is increasing but I would not blame Facebook but the new technology including internet, social networks, chatting rooms, or virtual communication servers such as Skype, MSN. More new technology we are surrounded with in more danger we can be. I have to agree with you when it comes to dealing with the problem or finding the solution. Parents should care about who their children talk to, as well as what are they doing on different social networks before it might be too late.
OdpovedaťOdstrániťI think that facebook is more useful than harmful in terms of sexual content. Young people have access to information that can help them with sexual development. It is definitely better if they spend much time facebooking than viewing porn pages, which is no problem today, even for non-adults. Facebook has the advantage that your friends can see everything you do on your wall, including your parents (as long as they have account). So they can check their children’s activities on facebook and control them. Having older friends in friendslist is a matter of everyday life of teenagers. If they have older friends they will talk to them about things even face to face so facebook does not have such impact in this case.
OdpovedaťOdstrániťI think thatif children want to find anything with sexaul content on the internet they will, and facebook is just another way to find it. If a child wants to do something that he thinks is wrong, he will still find a way to do ti, even with his/her parents checking on them all the time. I don't think that facebook is a big problem for this issue, because there are many worse web pages that makes it easier for under aged people to find what they want to find, and I don't think at this stage, facebook should be the main concern.
OdpovedaťOdstrániťAnnie I agree with you in the thing that parents should know friends with whom their children talk to through out the web, facebook in this case. But this is very hard, when the teenager is in a puberty, the last thing what he or she really wants is to talk with parents, so it is quite hard to be informed what your child does during sitting in front of the PC for a long hours.I agree with Iva that facebook is more usefull than harmful. You can decide with whom you would like to talk to, if you have some friends request, and you do not know this person, you can easily refuse him or her. I am not sure if checking children activities is to right way how get know about your child activities. To find a solution is the most hardest problem I think.
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