Kids today face a whole new challenge... Social media. In the last century technology has flourished from the rise of smartphones to new social media apps popping up by the day. As social media becomes central in our day to day lives it is important to step back and look at the impact of social media on teenagers. Social media affects teens in a negative way because it is a bad influence, can be unsafe, and can be a major distraction. First, social media can be a bad influence. Because anyone can post on social media there is lots of opinions and false information about things. For example, when it comes to drugs social media often finds a way of giving false information or saying it 's cool. All it takes is one teen to believe this …show more content…
Social media can often lead to cyberbullying. In a survey by CBS, 42% of the participants reported they had been victims to cyber bullying. The anonymity provided by social media allows people to be cruel without anyone knowing who they are. Another common problem is people creating false profiles and using a fake names to bully others. Cyberbullying can be traumatic and leave long lasting effects on the victim. Teens are especially susceptible to online bullying as they are going through a turbulent time of change and are often more self-conscious. These online attacks can leave deep mental scars and cyberbullying can be fatal. 20% of kids cyberbullied think about suicide, and 1 in 10 attempt it. Social media is also unsafe because it is addictive. 18% of people reported not being able to go more than a few hours without checking Facebook. These obsessive impulses to check social media turns dangerous and unhealthy when teens start checking while driving, or lose sleep due to excessive social media …show more content…
While social media can facilitate friendship and help teens stay in touch this is only one part of the equation. The other and much more essential part of friendship is face to face interaction. It is impossible to develop good relationships without knowing the person. Friends on social media alone could act different in real life, or not even be who they say they are. Sometimes social media is even affecting real life relationships. According to dailymail.co 34% of 5-15 year olds frequently bring technology to family meals. The presence of tech at what is supposed to be a time set aside for family and conversation is threatening family relationships. 37% of mothers report they are finding it challenging to get their children even to eat with the family. Although the intent of using social media to stay in touch and develop friendship is good in reality friendships developed purely on social media are not reliable and even worse social media is abused and it is beginning to effect real relationships. The evidence is overwhelming: the cons of social media for teens outweighs the few benefits. Not only is it a bad influence, it is unsafe, and can be a major distraction. Teens need to stop wasting their life staring at a screen and start
How do you think your world would be without social media? If you didn’t know there are real dangers when students use social media. Another reason is social media can harm your reputation. Some people are mistaken about social media because it can help you by putting you in social groups, you can even make friends on social media. But teens should not use social media because of dangers, harm to reputation, and mental illnesses.
The information in this article is fairly accurate. The writer lists studies and researchers to back up her statements. Karkaowsky, Aurelle. “Student Examines Negative Effects of Social Media on Teens.” Star News Online.
We read several articles about social media. According to Hilary Stout she believes social media is beginning to lower social skills that kids should have. I agree with Stout’s claim because these things are happening around us. Stout’s first claim is, kids and youths are not as interested in face to face communication with their friends. She gives some examples such as telling her friend all her secrets.
are online, and the vast majority access the internet on their mobile device, making it the most common medium for cyber bullying. From prior knowledge we all know how bullying or any type of hate can negatively affect someone. “Teens Need Policing Online” by Kate Fogarty reveals that, “While online, teens may be persuaded to do things that they do not want to, such as share private information, be sexually solicited, and/or experience public humiliation. Some worst-case scenarios- take, for example, Megan Meier, who committed suicide after being cyberbullied-got our attention and brought changes in the law and policy.” This exemplifies that while being on the internet teens are persuaded to do many messed up things, and get peer pressured into doing that where they are put in a tight position.
This has affected our society by allowing teens to have a quick and efficient way to communicate with others worldwide. Also it allows them to hide behind screens and limits their face to face interactions, and can cause loneliness, anxiety, and put them at risk of being attacked by cyberbullies. As you can tell there are many positives and negatives of the use of social media in teens, but can you truly hinder one's social experiences by not allowing them to use social networks? In the era of technology in which we live in today our lives on the internet have become just as important as our lives in reality so to think that you should not allow a teen to connect with his peers through social media is obscured. By doing this you could not only make them miss out on many social events you could leave your teen social
Does social media have a negative effect on people? Review on literature: Social media may seem like a harmless sight of the online world, but it is filled with things that children, teens, and even adults may find extremely inappropriate. For teens and children, it’s filled with dark secrets. There are strange people who make bad content, and it could inflict them fear, and change the way they think. I use social media every day, and I find these things EVERYWHERE.
It causes you to lose brain tissue and if you do not get your 7 hours of sleep you might suffer from bad moods. While Teenagers feel that social media is more important than the real world. The internet has a negative effect on social media because it can take over brain cells , become more addictive and teenagers spend more time on social media than having
While Teenagers feel that social media is more important than the real world its alot of negative effects of social media. One is that it can take over brain cells and effect mental and physical health. Being On social media every day, every hour, and every minute can really cause damage to your brain cells. Our brain grows as when learn new things and when we learn the new things it changes after we done experienced it. It Changes the way we think and feel.
Some people say that social media is dangerous for kids because it changes their behaviors and more importantly it affects their learning for school. It is dangerous because, they never know who they are chatting with online. Social media changes children 's behaviors because they do unhealthy things that are intended for people over 18 years of age. It also affects their education in a bad way by using abbreviations or slang that threatens their skills in writing. However, others say that social media is beneficial for kids because researchers see them expressing themselves on it.
Many people, especially young people, have been consumed with the use of social networking. Nobody can take their eyes off of their phones, and that has resulted in real relationship connections withering. When a family is eating together or watching a movie in the living room to have some family bonding time, children lose attention and instead focus more on what 's going on in social media. When people hang out with their friends, they are still consumed with their phones even though
Imagine that 20 years ago the only way to stay in touch with a person was to mail a letter. In a modern world with the invention of social media, people can converse with someone using the internet and get a response within seconds. Although in the course of time all generations have started to take advantage of the novations that social media has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most active users of these networks. According to numerous research studies in the area of online social networks, it has been shown that such sites are impacting the lives of the youth significantly. Understandably, there are a lot of different opinions about its positive and negative influence.
In the fast developing contemporary world, it seems to be that people cannot spend a day without social media, despite the fact of its numerous negative effects. The vulnerable teenagers should limit the use of social media by spending less time on the Internet as it can cause a number of negative consequences: it can lead to health as well as social problems. Proponents, however, argue that social media changed lives to the better as it made communication easier and faster and there are no negative effects from social media. They might also say it is impossible to withdraw from the Internet at all. This may be true and their argument is valid, nevertheless, all the negative impacts on one’s physical as well as mental health and social life outweigh the mentioned advantages.
According to Canneil University’s (Steven Strogatz, 2005), “Social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media”. When the young people prioritise these less than meaningful relationships, the more important connections like parents-children and sisters-brothers relationship will weaken because the less they communicate with each other, the higher the risk for the meaningful relationship to be damaged. They also score low in schools because of the distractions like video games, watching videos, and chatting with known and unknown person in social media sites. People never realise that all of these kind of distractions are actually the distractions that they created themselves. Young people may cause their future to be beaten by their own current attitude because ‘how’ they think now is ‘how’ they are going to be in the
3.3 Impact on Youth Social media tools are woven into many young people 's day-to-day lives. Young people are in conversation and communication with their peer groups using a wide variety of different media and media devices every day. 10 years ago, young people may have only been in touch with friends and peer-groups when hanging out at school, or meeting up in town. Now young people can be touch through instant messaging, social networks, online games and many other tools. Young people are growing up in a constantly connected society[2].This SNSs impact on youth in both positively and negatively.
A report by WebMD News shows that teenagers who spend time on social media sites may be more likely to smoke, drink alcohol and use drugs according to Columbia University 's National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse