Should social media platforms be monitored and controlled?

By Nethania Latisha Anjani (Grade 8B)

Nowadays, we can easily access a lot of social media platforms. Social media platform is a place where we can get information; Instagram is an example of it. Any age — from babies to elders — can use it too. As the number of modern problems increase, there is a call to monitor and control the social media platforms. Here are some for and against.

A lot of people say that it is a great idea to monitor and control media platforms. It’s great to control, so that underage kids can watch something that is suitable for their age. There are a lot of cases where kids are watching content that is not suitable for them, and as a result they get negative manners. Other than that, it’s also a good thing to control the social media platform, so that the creator doesn’t give a bad effect to whoever is watching.

In the other hand, people disagree with monitoring and controlling media platforms. People who disagree with it say that there will be no privacy when it is controlled. They might feel uncomfortable, too. Moreover, it is also unsafe, because the people who monitor and control can get our personal data. Seeing our personal data can be risky: people can sell our data, or even see the data that isn’t supposed to be seen by other people.

In my opinion, I agree to control and monitor social media platforms so that I can’t see what I’m not supposed to see. But I also feel that I’m not going to have any privacy if they did. As a child, I prefer to agree, and when I turn into an adult, I prefer to disagree with it.