Who Lured Underage Girls Off Facebook Shows The Dangers Of Social Media

Name: Londyn LaRose

Virtual Media One-third of the world’s population uses social media ranging from Twitter, FaceBook, Instagram, Google, and many other popular sites everyday? This may seem like a good thing because it provides people with a wider span of access with things that originally were nearly impossible to have access to, but it is not. Studies have shown that five to ten percent of internet users cannot control how much time they spend online. This is caused in instances where social media provides the brain with instant “rewards” or “pleasures” with little effort required. This causes the brain to rewire itself to drive one to crave the stimulations more after each interaction, much like a drug (5 Crazy Ways Social Media Is Changing

Therefore, this shows that social media can cause a downgrade in our white matter, whose purpose is to connect gray matter areas and send nerve impulses between neurons, and affect our

It is surprisingly easy to be deceived online. One example is introduced in an article by Maria Coder, “Prankster Who Lured Underage Girls Underage Girls Off FaceBook Shows the Danger of Social Media: ‘It Wasn’t That Hard’” published on August 8, 2015, advices kids to consider the dangers of being lured into the potential arms of a dangerous predator by releasing a video that features how easy it can be to lure an underage girl out of the safety of her home and into the arms of the supposed danger. In this YouTube video by Coby Persin, twenty-one years old, contacts three girls, with permission from their parents, as a test to see if they would communicate with him as he pretends to be a fifteen year-old boy named Jason Biazzo. From all three scenarios, the last one, including a fourteen-year-old girl named Jenna, was the most shocking of them all, where Jenna is seen to enter a windowless van driven by a man, Coby Persin, who Jenna was told is the fifteen-year-old boy’s older brother. Her parents are hiding in the back of the van with ski masks on. As she gets into the van, her parents grab her as though to give the illusion that she is being kidnapped. Later, they reveal themselves as her parents and confront her (Coder 1). In the end, Jenna’s father, Robert, adds in by commenting, “Most parents, including me, will say ‘Nah, not our kids.’ But yeah, it could be your kid. We learned that people need