SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTS ON ADOLESCENTS (AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE)
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Adolescents are children between the age of 13 to 19years of age and at this time there is a growth spark among them there are changes in character ,development ,social changes and health risk.
Social media is an application that comprises of websites where people connect and share ideas and communicate reaching out to the world at large .
Social media has negative and positive impacts .
The positive impacts include
It fosters education as there are many educational contents on the internet.
Content creation most individuals have so many talents to be brought to the public eye for engage in .
Business management and advertisement social media is a very important platform to advertise your business and attract many audience to buy your products .
Communication social media helps to improve our communication skills and opens up so many platforms for communicating .
The negative impacts includes
Addiction and improper time management adolescents tend to spend most of their time on the social media and this stops them from being able to archive other important things.
Misinformation most of the news that are posted online are fake and pass the wrong information about a lot of things.
Cyber bulling and most adolescents are victims of cyber bulling and this can affect the state of their mental health and make them have low self esteem.
Well looking at it on the contrary the negative effects of social media on adolescents is more prominent than the positive impacts looking at the way the youths of these days are reckless and wild.it influences the adolescence mental health more .
Comparing the advantages and disadvantages
The advantages are exposure to good educational materials, content creation ,business management strategy and good communication skills .
While
The disadvantages which comprises of addiction , poor time management ,misinformation ,cyber bulling.
About the future of todays adolescents mental health.
Its indeed the mental health of adolescents in the present economy is not to write home about ,because in as much there is good things on the social media the bad contents that are posted online even on the dark web.so adolescents need proper advice and supervision to keep them and monitor their to aid them in making right decision .
And if they have gone to far and need therapy it should be given the chance to see one by their parents.
Social media is very good but should be used wisely and not misused.
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The way you brought balance to this theme is what makes me very happy. Social media has made negative impacts on some individual like addiction, poor usage of time etc. while the positive impacts are obvious especially in the educational sector amongst several others
Tools are never to blame; it is how we use them that matters. As you rightly say, teenagers are still developing their brains, which is why they are more affected by what they see on social media. I think the solution you propose is the right one: they need good guidance from the adults in their lives, their parents and teachers. Good reflection.
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STOPThe truth is anyone that is addicted to social media it kills within because some say social media calm a spirit that is upset but is also a means of getting some one mentality shorten either by death of premature madness like some that got addicted to social media behave abnormal but how we can deviate from that is by having a focus and also know our health matters
Rightfully written, Children at this age need to be advised not to be carried away by all the things they see as contents on social media
The good thing is to let children know the good and the bad side of social media before even introducing them to it .