Teenagers are affected by Social Media.
Many parents and teachers are worried about the way in which exposure to technology could affect young children from the point of view of development. Some teens keep busy on the screen for hours after school and until well after bedtime. When they are not doing their homework (and when they do) they are online, sending text messages, sharing, provoking, moving the cursor from top to bottom, whatever. Of course, before everyone had social media accounts, teens also stayed busy, but they were more likely to talk on the phone or in person when they went out. Teens send all kinds of messages that in a million years would not contemplate telling anyone in the face. T
he Social networks are a powerful tool and a danger that must be controlled. They are a window to a virtual world of appearances and what is published escapes forever from user control. Therefore, we must teach young people to use it wisely and let them register at an appropriate age. Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter Snapchat may seem necessary to keep up with the times for young people but this is an addictive age and if they become dependent on it for daily satisfaction then it will become dangerous for their healthy development.
What is Social Media? Social media is a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and others.
- The “social” part: refers to interacting with other people by sharing information with them and receiving information from them.
- The “media” part: refers to an instrument of communication, like the internet (while TV, radio, and newspapers are examples of more traditional forms of media).
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-social-media-explaining-the-big-trend-3486616
Social networks have changed the way young people communicate and relate. But for good or for bad?
Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat have become “indispensable” in the day to day of most teenagers and few people give up having a presence in any of these networks. Social Media have their advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages that social networks have is that we can be in communication with our friends and family. We can also know opportunities through social media. But now many of young people misuse social media. Teenagers do not think about the danger that many run. In social media we do not know what kind of people we are going to face. A disadvantage that social media has is that many young people become addicted to them. Many teens do not get enough sleep and not sleeping 8 hours can bring many consequences. Even unknown people start doing bullying that is one of the biggest disadvantages that social media has because most teenagers get upset by any unkind words spoken to them. It is too easy to be a bully online. Depression is a big problem that parents needs to avoid with their children. This can be avoided by having a healthy balance between online time and face to face quality time with friends and family. Parents need to pay attention to teenagers. What photos they publish? Who are their friends? Who they talk?
simon.21 • Apr 24, 2019 at 8:40 am
I honestly believe that social media has changed the lives of many people. People working from home, using their phones and kids using snap, Instagram or anything else. Everyone is different and we all play a part in the social media part of our life. Social media can be a huge issue just as it can be viewed as something great and easy. I would say yes its good but no it has its bad things.
turbo • Mar 1, 2019 at 11:12 am
With the presence of social media, we have the most platforms to exercise our first amendment. Unfortunately many abuse this right, but there are consequences for those who do so. Besides this I don’t see anything wrong with social media. Of course people are going to abuse social media but they will face the consequences. All in all the pros of social media outweigh the cons. There are tons of bad individuals who will abuse their rights weather or not social media is in existence.
oshi • Jan 23, 2019 at 11:05 am
Social media is a great resource but when we overused it, it will be a bad idea to keep doing it, some kids use media for everything, they don’t even have time to play with their friends outside of their house or something, they just keep the whole day on their phone or tablet. This routine will end bad if we continue doing it, we must find a way to stop this without taking something important like social media.
Swagalicous • Sep 4, 2018 at 9:25 am
Social media is important because it helps people share information and communicate without having to call or text from a phone number. However, some people take advantage of the privilege and use social media as way to do bad things. Some teenagers use social media as a way to say things without having to say it in person. People need to use it wisely and should be responsible to use it respectfully so that it doesn’t get ruined for others.
Elpatron • Jun 1, 2018 at 10:02 am
Social media help people to communicate from a far distance , is good that we can use it to communicate easily with our family that live in other places. however there are people that use it in inappropriate ways which means that social media could be a bad or good thing depending on the way people use it.
Br2 • Jun 1, 2018 at 9:21 am
Social Media is alowing us to communicate as never before. This is a great advantage and I feel like we are still adapting to it as new technology is being made related to it.