disadvantages of social media on children
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Popular opinion of the impact of social media on children is that it does more harm than good. Here are some negative impacts of social media on children:
The most well-known downside of social media is the addiction it creates. Constantly checking the news feed of the different social media sites becomes an addictive habit. Experts think that some of the features such as ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ activate the reward centre in the brain. This reward circuitry is highly sensitive during adolescence and may partly explain why more teenagers are into social media than adults. These features further influence our moods. Being social creatures, we value interaction and connection, both of which determine how we think of ourselves. This drives a lot of our behaviour on a day-to-day basis to be centred on social media.
Youngsters addicted to social media end up spending hours each day watching videos, photos and other content posted by their friends and accounts they follow. This addiction disrupts other activities such as school work, sports, study and other productive routines. They end up wasting a substantial amount of time every day resulting in poor grades in school. Some heavy users of social media admit to checking their feeds as many as 100 times a day and sometimes during school hours too. Some of the kids also realize that they are wasting a lot of time on social media and that affects their mood negatively. It also builds in them a defeatist attitude.
Psychologists have also long observed bad effects of social media on the mental health of children. One finding suggests that children spending more than 3 hours a day on social media are twice as likely to suffer from poor mental health. Their immersion in a virtual world delays their emotional and social development. The effects on teens are much stronger. One report by the IZA Institute of Labour Economics suggests that spending only an hour a day on social media can make a teen miserable. It could be due to the influence of social comparisons, cyberbullying and decreased person-person interactions.
As with just about all things, social media should be used moderately to stay in touch with the times and trends. Trouble begins only with excessive indulgence.
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