Family Social Media Usage

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The site demonstrates some of the issues inherent in social media and its effect on children, adolescents, and families, and it gives guidance on the risks and benefits, cyber-bullying, online harassment, sexting, and privacy concerns.

After reading the recommendations or doing your own search on general recommendations about the use of social media (if the link above does not work, definitely do your own search), write a minimum 3 page paper that includes:

• Benefits and risks of using social media
• One specific topic you find applicable or interesting (e.g. cyber-bullying)
• A brief analysis of your family social media usage / a hypothetical family’s social media usage.
• Be sure to include the source(s) you used and submit an APA formatted reference page. Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below.

  Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

  Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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