Growing Up Online

Kids these days are growing up in a new kind of world. With all of the new technology improving so rapidly, kids spend a lot of their time on social media sites, causing a loss of focus among the new generations. According to the show "Frontline" on  PBS, a big change in the way these children are taught, is due to the rise of social networks. Because kids are always entertained nowadays, teaching them in a generic classroom setting just doesn't keep their attention anymore. Teachers must change the way they teach to involve more media based lectures, which causes more schools to have to spend a lot of money on smart boards and other media-based teaching tools.
However, with the rise of social media comes a decline in real social interaction. Kids can spend so much time online these days that there just wouldn't really be a point of interacting with the world in person. Also, behind the face of a computer, it is a lot easier to be harsh to others, because we can't physically see the pain it causes them. If you wouldn't have to confront a certain person in real life, why would you really care what happens to this person? That is the poisonous mindset that a lot of these kids are growing up with, making it really easy to be a bully and hurt others. These kids aren't able to realize the power of words, and therefore let their mouths, or rather their keyboards, run wild.
Social media is a door to another world, with which some kids choose to become a different person. Many people have faced trouble growing up and they just had to push through and deal with it. Nowadays, kids don't have to deal with it when they can express these trouble online or become a person that doesn't posses the same problems. One girl was very awkward and shy in school, so she decided to become a provocative model online, gaining many followers. She didn't have to deal with being the awkward girl because she now had a whole other world where she was famous. More and more kids are doing stuff like this now, and we all know that avoiding your problems instead of dealing with them can be an extremely unhealthy habit and can lead to bigger problems in the future. There is no way to eliminate social media from the next generation, so we have to find ways to educate them about the dangers of it.