Social Media Effects On Teenagers

Karim Amr El-Gohary

Dr. Samar Mohamed Ezzat

ENG 102

6 April, 2015

The Effect Of Social Media On Teenagers The factors that made social media affect teenagers negatively A research paper

Abstract

Do social media have any negative effect on teenagers ? This research paper examine the social media effect on teenagers and how social media became a part of the teens life . This research will focus on the social , physiological and educational effect that social media affected teenagers negatively through them. First, the paper will discuss the history of social media and the beginning of using teenagers to social media and social websites . Then the researcher has explored some elements that has negatively impacted the teenagers socially

Social media started in 1969 with the invention of internet on computers where it was so difficult to use at that time. Internet started to develop with the beginning of spreading of the E-mails on the internet on different websites in 1971 . From year 1971 till 1990 internet developed till internet recorded 2.6 million users . In year 1989 world wide web was proposed until it went public in year 1991 and it begin the appearance of the first web page . In 1998 the most popular search engine appeared which is GOOGLE . From that year till 2001 teens started to explore the internet till mobiles with internet appeared and internet started to be surfed through mobiles . A lot of social pages started to appear until 2004 were the outbreak of the most popular social page which is "FACEBOOK" . It was the beginning of teenagers addiction to social websites . In 2005 the most popular social website for advertising and broadcasting has appeared which is YOUTUBE . In 2006 Google search engine recorded 400 million search per day and in the same year the social website twitter has appeared . Till 2008 where the appearance of the smart phones such as android and IOS on apple mobiles where teenagers explore the internet most of the time and chat with friends through it . By the time some popular social web sites started to appeared where in 2011 social media is

Jeff Dunn is one of those people who had reports about negatives and positives of social media with education. He mentioned in his negatives that social media with all its branches affect teens and make them waste their time without using it in studies . It was also said by him that teens uses social websites a lot in one day that decreases their socialization with other people on face to face chat . Steve Armstrong also added some negatives were students return to internet to get their whole information for their studies and explore a lot of website pages that attracts them to the social websites where they lose their concentration of study and start to socialize and harms their academic life