Dangers of Unrestricted Access“Social media websites can enrich children's lives, but they can also be dangerous to their mental and physical health” (Hellmich). (Social media sites) “can enhance children's creativity and help them develop technical skills. They can also lead to cyberbullying, depression and exposure to inappropriate content” (Hellmich). While the Internet can help the children of our society, parents, teachers and principals must consider all the risks and decide whether children should have unrestricted access to everything on the Internet. Social media sites can be very risky. Parents and other adults need to create rules and regulations to govern and monitor Internet use. With these restrictions, cyberbullying, depression and misuse of these sites can be prevented. Teens who use the Internet without supervision or rules are more likely to experience cyberbullying. Along with cyberbullying, teens can also suffer from depression because they believe everything they read on the Internet. This also includes when teens see too much on the Internet and believe that what they see is always reality. Allowing teens to use the Internet for social media without any restrictions can lead them to abuse the sites and inflict emotional harm on themselves or others through cyberbullying. Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and other photo-focused social sites allow many teens to judge and bully other teens without their parents knowing. “Parents need to know that unrestricted media use can have serious consequences. It has been linked to violence, cyberbullying and a variety of other problems” (Ocala Star-Banner). Facebook is a popular social media site to meet friends, but it's k...... half of paper ...... and if their children browse the Internet often, chances are they have experienced cyberbullying at some point point. Without parents monitoring whether their child is a victim of cyberbullying, the child may go into depression and perhaps start thinking about suicide if he or she is never helped in time. Any parent or adult can help stop cyberbullying by checking in with their children and viewing what they post on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. Works Cited “Documents for Parents: Limit Kids' Texts, Tweets, Online.” Ocala Star-Banner. 28 October 2013: np SIRS Issues Researcher. Network. April 18, 2014. Hennick, Calvino. "Reflection on the scholastic role of Facebook." Boston Globe. 27 Sep. 2012: REG.1. SIRS problem researcher. Network. April 18, 2014. Hellmich, Nanci. “Social media websites can be helpful for kids, but…” USA TODAY. 28 March 2011: B.8. SIRS problem researcher. Network. April 18. 2014.