Determinación de los peligros en las redes sociales en entorno a niños y adolescentes para uso y prevención

Abstract

The technological advancement in recent years has led to the appearance of social media, which has allowed people to interact with other users through these means. Still, we must understand the dangers that are often encountered and have knowledge of the most vulnerable population. Children and adolescents have easy access to this creation and social media; therefore, this is the target population and the easiest one to manipulate. Just by observing or reading the news, one finds cases such as cyberbullying, sextortion, grooming, contact with dangerous people, and human trafficking. Cases like those mentioned above result in self-injury or death. In addition, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic led many people to depend on and use social media more, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, among others. For this reason, exploratory research and the deductive method were used for this article to avoid the mentioned cases like self-harm and even death. At the same time, to understand what influences the constant use of social media.