Social Media and Teen Mental Health
Before I blinked my eyes, my niece, a teen living with me, had already told me news about the war between Israel and Iran when it began initially, even when I was yet to know what was going on.
That's the power of social media on adolescents of this era. They are getting exposed to the global news as well, along with many other things out there they are being exposed to through social media.
However, I wouldn't deny that there is the need for them to be exposed to digital literacy to avoid being misinformed and suffering greatly from the negative effects of social media.
This prompt is focused on the positive and negative impacts of social media on adolescence, which mostly influence the adolescents mental health.
Obviously, the negative impacts mostly influence the adolescents mental health, but to me, I will say that the main thing lies in the usage. Social media has clear advantages and disadvantages, and so far, the mental health of adolescents today has been affected greatly mostly due to the usage. Do you allow your gadgets to control you, or do you control them instead? The mental health effect of social media can be curtailed if you choose the latter!
Our adolescents of today are so curious. They want to know how, why, and what. And then social media becomes a handy tool to quench their curiosity. Most of them are using TikTok, Instagram, and others to learn public speaking, and that's great. Some intelligent ones are exposed to skill through the same means, while some learn more about their education through the same means as well. That's on the positive side.
On the negative side, some of these teens are very addicted to social media. Their studies don't matter anymore; it's all about scrolling from one click to another, burning their precious time, and before you know it, 4 hours are gone! They see some luxury life from people and think that life is so rosy that way, not knowing that lots of fake life fills the streets of social media. What do you expect when people are looking for traffic? They would post attractive videos, or text, or images just to draw attention, whereas they are all lies. An innocent adolescent consumes all this content unfiltered and begins to feel inferior to him or herself. Comparison sets it, and if not careful, depression follows. All these affect their mental health negatively, and that's exactly what they see daily at each scroll through social media and many unthinkable things.
Let's not even forget how distracted they get just because of social media, which in turn affects their sleep quality and what they can achieve daily. I admire how this same media helps them connect with friends even across the globe and helps expose them to varieties of knowledge these days, but yet, they won't escape suffering the mental health implications if left unmonitored. And I repeat, they surely need to be informed; otherwise the negative impacts will continue to override.
I have work to do, you have work to do, and all parents and guardians have work to do if we really want to see our adolescents utilize the positive side of social media without feeling the negative impacts that much.
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It's so sad how these young teens just consume any and everything without filtering them. I just wish there was a way or system that could filter what young people consumed on the Internet.
Parents really have a lot of work to do
It's worrisome indeed
We must do our part
The distraction that cokes with social media is one thing we don't talk about that much, even as adult once you start watching a video on tiktok, exiting becomes a problem what more an adolescent.
Everyone is affected..both adolescent and adults ...we face it's negative impacts !
Yes, it all boils down to our they use social media, and most importantly, parents and guardians have their roles to play in curtailing them from excessive use of social media when they could be using the time for other things needed for their growth.
Yea..the issue is in the usage
It's terrible!
some teens are so distracted and addicted to social media in the wrong way, this is why parent need to be observant of what they do on their phone
Yesoo..alert alert we should stay on these teens
That's just the fear the negative part of it which is a must do for many of them because some of them enjoys it most and have been carried away by it. You just said it all parents, guidance are too reluctant over it living them to do whatever they like with their gadget no caution.
Unmonitored phone usage by the teens is always a problem . We should do better
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Truly depends on the usage, a lot of adolescent got addicted to stuffs on social all of these social stuffs breeds comparison n distractions all leading them to do things they ought not to have, putting themselves in harms way....
Exactly ...they simply need close monitoring and guidance otherwise they lose it
Even adults too
We all have work to do.
A little girl in JSSS2 used her dad's phone in the name of "I want to study some online quiz. She held that phone for only two hours in her room but her dad's 3gb data got finished.
Upon enquiry, she confessed that she was watching tiktok videos secretly in her room. Her dad vowed never to give her his phone again.
Social media is not for teenagers. The teens we have now ehn, if you give them allow, they will take allowance and shock the parent in the process.
Hahaha 😃...they will take allowance indeed and begin to shock us..lol
It's unimaginable to think of what this teens do with phone this days
Unbelievable indeed o 😁
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Social media is a blessing, but it can be a curse if it's not used properly. I mean, we need to know how to avoid negative influence. It depends on us how to use social media. I think we spend too much time on social media, and it's causing both physical and mental issues.
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We burn a lot of our time on social media and cant escape it's negative impacts ..not only adolescents but adults too
You are right we can get information about many things from social media but also it becomes addicted to our youth too especially when they don't know this addiction would result in something really bad
The addiction is a strong negative effect sis
Yes being addicted to it results in something not good
Social media has a more negative influence on adolescents and the rate of addiction is growing very fast. Immorality has grown a lot among adolescents because of the things they see on social media.
That's a pure undiluted truth !
Being addicted to social media is the worse thing that can happen to anyone. This kids need to be guided because the social media is unhealthy for them.
My dear .ultimate guide oo