The Negative Effects Of Social Media On Children

As todays youth suffer from major consequences of social media, people should become more aware of its effects, or to some they should know that it has effects that will impact their children. Hence, Parents should take caution as it has a negative effect on their children. Outset, social media is a set of web applications that permit production, aggregation and sharing several other content to the net. It is well known that children starting from the age 12 and up start using social media, they start to interact online and they begin to get exposed daily to different sources of social media. Many of todays websites or social media allows everyone to expose themselves to new sources of interaction, even virtual websites could make children

Cyberbullying is very common nowadays, and can occur to any child causing intense psychosocial outcomes. And again, parents should take caution that children can easily get depressed just by reading negative comments on their profile or receive awful messages just from posting one picture, someone could easily make them feel like they are not worthy, thus they can make them think about suicide. Moreover, cyberbullying has also been the cause of many suicides according to the article “the effects of social media on children” this shows how Important this effect, and how it could shape someones life, one must make sure that they are around people who care about them, and will make sure that they will never even think about killing oneself. parents need to make sure their children knows their worth and that they are loved, to prevent any psychological

In The journal “A study on the Negative Effects of social networking sites such as Facebook among Asia pacific university scholars in Malaysia” The authors: Aida Abdulahi, Behand Samadi and Behrooz Gharleghi. Did a comprehensive study on the Negative Effects of social networking sites such as Facebook among Asia pacific university scholars in Malaysia, they highlighted the importance of the privacy issues and security as millions of people around the world including children who use social media, according to this journal manny people misuse the information stored in the databases, they compared identity theft to real life, such as fraud or vandalism and showed how serious this could be as they gave the example about Facebook; to create an account one must fill out personal information including birthday and contact information, without noticing they have “a comprehensive snapshot” of who you are and what you like, just because they have a list of everyone you know ‘friends” and what interests one might have when they follow a page or like a post. With this type of information people can use it for a negative cause and affect ones life horribly. showing that people can misuse the information a child goes online just to play a game and use it for a different cause, taking their personality and changing it to whatever they want. Another research was done according to Angela barnes and Christine laird, on “the effects of social media on children”