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Should Students Social Media Monitoring Student's Privacy?

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Social media accounts have been used excessively for cyberbullying. According to the given sources, studies show that cyberbullying over social media has been a problem, and was needed to be fixed. However, people have the right of privacy and invading a person’s social media account isn’t fair. Schools shouldn’t monitor students’ social media accounts because it would invade one’s privacy, and the trustworthy from others wouldn’t be present anymore. Monitoring students social media accounts would invade one’s privacy. In the source, “States Take Steps to Limit School Surveillance of Student Social Media Pages,” by Alex Bradshaw, he says that invading students’ privacy doesn’t stop the harm from bullying. He proclaims, “While bullying, harassment, and gun …show more content…

As stated by “Orange Schools Start Monitoring Students’ Social Media,” by Leslie Postal, a school district has announced they’ve given schools new software that goes through social-media messages on campuses. “[The] new software that would allow it to grab and then analyze social-media messages posted from its campuses, whether from students or staff. The software would also allow the district to search the thousands of messages posted on various sites for keywords that might indicate trouble,” (Source 5). This system can quickly point to harassment, bullying, or negativity online. However, it invades others privacy and doesn't tell people the limitations we can’t say online. What if a person says something because they have the freedom of speech and it’s encouraging, but then the software reads it as a negative point of view? It isn’t fair to be in-trouble for something one sees as a positive point of view as to another seeing it as a negative. If a person or system tries to protect a student from being harmed, there will still be problems after trying from another person’s

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