Social Media Negative Influence

Social Media and Its Negative Influences on Children
Introduction
At the beginning of twenty first century the phenomenon named social media entered massively our lives and still continuing to do to all of our everyday activities. Many fields-advertising, management, service industries had adapted to and benefitted from its existence. Definitely, communication is one of the spheres which it influenced substantially. However, usage of social networking is not for only adults. There is significant children presence in social network. This presence basically means children might have access almost every feature as adults have. However, they are not distinctly protected from possible harms. Available filtering technologies are as effective

A study conducted by Byron et al. (2012) demonstrates that content which includes sexual health promotion are more likely to be presented in social network, which are not pleasant materials for children to face. Such promotions also raise the issue of privacy because it is considered as specific interventions to these sites. Another research done by Rodriguez et al. (2016) highlights the point that drinking identity and Facebook posts which are associated with alcohol usage correlates the posts related such content in an individual’s news feeds which inevitable influence young social media

As Yost (2014) claims in her study can lead lack of communication skills in children. When children spend too much time online, at some point, they may think of social media as a replacement for the real world. Consequently such substitution may lead ignorance about behavior related interpersonal contact. Moreover, it may result in witnessing hate speech and increasing social distrust. Obviously, hate speech is a part of virtual world because of poor censored content and existence of huge number of unknown or fake accounts. When, children face hate speech in social media, they may adsorb such behavior and start to trust people less considering the case in virtual world to be identical to the real-life situations. For a number of children, being online for long duration may cause addiction. As Wu (2013) points out having game application inside social media site can increase the chance of game addiction alongside addiction to social network itself. Such children feel the urge of checking their status on both game and the site which isolates them from real world. Even though they or their parents attempt to decrease online hours, they fail. Undoubtedly it left a trace on their academic and social