With trust and self-disclosure, the adolescents can use digital media to develop deeper relationships that anchor on the values and cultures of the society (Howard & Katie, 2013). Finally, the authors argue that restoring imagination and creativity should involve the designers of the apps developing platforms that allow exploration and expansion of new ideas without the help of the
Do you ever think about the negative effects social media has on our youth? Everyday social media lowers a teenager’s self-confidence. Teens today are more focused on social media than their school work. Online predators are all over social media looking for their next victim. Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter can cause teens to fall into these negative situations.
Per research on teen social media use done by Indiana University, “... the participants’ personality scores reflected the observer ratings better than the idealized self-descriptions.” (Herring & Kapidzic 7). This data proves that teens use social media to project a different image of themselves to impress viewers or followers. Moreover, teens in middle school are impressionable, and so they should be more constructively monitored when using technology. One way to prevent cyberbullying in middle
Technology can be useful for many things like making information more accessible or communication. However, there are many disadvantages to technology. The article “Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds”, written by Elise Hu, is about how social media has a way of putting people down and upsetting them. In the article “No, Kids CAN’T study while they’re texting: Research finds teenagers struggle with multitasking”, written by Jenny Awford, talks about how teens have difficulty multitasking when technology is present. The article “Colleges grapple with cheating in the digital age”, by Carla Rivera, is about how college students use technology to cheat on their assignments.
They can access more with this technology. A decade ago things in this matter were limited. Social media enhances students brain knowledge. With social media students and teachers can get ahold of more information to help each other learn. Social media is a great learning utensil.
The second article “The Upside of Selfies: Social Media isn’t all bad for Kids” by Kelly Wallace is about who social media can help teens and there problems around the world for teens”. Firstly social media is a dark place where teens can go and learn things and do things for fame that they should not do because it can harm them. The first example of this is in paragraph 4 of “Student Examines Negative Effects of Social Media on Teens” by Aurelie Krakowsky it states “They also put too much effort into following trends they see online instead of being themselves.” This shows that the internet can harm teens and have an effect on them teens are putting social media before themselves and others. All because of some of the trends it is making people so obsessed with social media. Some teens are getting hurt because of some of the trends they are doing to be popular and some of these trends can and will kill you.
According to Triandis (19711980), those people that experience the feeling of elation, joy pleasure or depression, disgust and hate has an effect and impact on the person behavior in using the technology for instant. Some researchers claimed that perceived enjoyment is categorized under an intrinsic motivation whereby the behavior is evoked through the feeling of pleasure, joy and excitement. In parallel, the perceived enjoyment significantly affects the intention to use the e-learning among students as proved by Davis et al. (1992). From Internet context, the perceived enjoyment have brought positive effects in terms of usage activities.
With today’s technological advances communication is easier than ever before. Although, text and multimedia messaging have allowed people to communicate anywhere, anytime, with the induction of social media, communication has gone even farther. In fact, social media’s popularity has had such a significant growth “that almost everywhere in the world, it is not unusual to see people facing down towards mobile devices to check social media while walking and doing or doing any activities” (Sriwilai & Charoensukmongkol, 2015, p. 427). However, this rise in virtual communication has slowly diminished the importance of intimacy and the need and/or desire to interact in person. Furthermore, it has created more opportunities for the malevolent.
We live in the time where social media is the main medium of communication. Twenty-first century learners spend a lot of free time online. They use it extensively to get global access. It becomes a raging craze for everyone nowadays. Although social media may have change the world for the better, it may also cause distraction to students, it changes the way they interact with others and it causes psychological changes or other health problems.
Mainly in terms of the positive effects, harmful effects and how it can affect the Accountancy Business and Management Senior High School Students towards their stay in the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. This caught the interest of the researchers in studying this particular issue. This study is very significant to the researchers and the readers because through this, people will be able to know the possible perceived effects of using social media. This study will be able to help the students to manipulate the positive attributes, negative attributes and perceived effects of using social media for their