The impact of social media on adolescents mental health

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One of the greatest gifts technology has brought to us is social media. The advent of social media has really brought about a whole lot of development and exposure to the human race and to the youth vogue most especially.

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This advent of social media has really made the whole world a small village. Not only that, it's also helped to build human relationships and communication globally as people can now relate and communicate with others around the globe.

Aside from this, social media has brought about solutions to most of the human problems and also helps people to generate money and build our financial strength.

Also, social media is a platform that has helped individual humans to build and develop their talents.

If I should continue with the advantages of the social media on the human race since it's coming, the sun will rise and fall and the whole day would not even be enough for me to state all its advantages but to be sincere with us all, the social media has really been a blessing to the entire human race.

But as good as social media is, it also has its effect on us, most especially those who are in the adolescent age bracket and this is because it renders them useless without them wanting to do anything on their own. In fact, some of them rely so much on social media to live their life for them thereby affecting their mental health.

Furthermore, the negative effect of social media on our adolescence cannot be overemphasized as it has eroded our cultural heritage completely. This can be seen in the way they behave in society. Some of them behave as if they were not being brought up by responsible parents. This can be attributed to the way other cultures or the world have been imported into our culture via social media which in one way or the other affects the way they behave and their mental health.

In addition, as good as social media is, the way it enhances fake life is so pathetic. Though some are real, but a larger percent of social media life is not real and this is the kind of life that most of our adolescents are dreaming of living and as a result, they are always going to far to live such a fake life which they thought it's real and this is really affecting them and their mental health.

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Hmmm, what of the other atrocities being taught and learnt via the social media by the adolescent. Some time ago, a guy was arrested for killing his friend for ritual and when he was being arraigned, he confessed to killing his friend for ritual and when asked where he had learnt the ritual practices, he said he learnt it from one of the social media platforms. Can you now see how mentally derailed this guy was to have killed his friend.

In conclusion, social media like I said has been the greatest gift technology has handed over to us, but the other side of it if not checked can affect the human race, most especially the youth of this time.

This is my entry to the scifi multiverse weekly prompt.

Thanks for reading.

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