influence of media on youngsters.I need 2 min speech on this topic asap. pls.
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Social media has become a part of everyone’s life that it can’t be ignored. Social media has both positive and negative impact not only on youth but also on elders and children. Let us see some of the positive impacts of social media:
● Positive impacts:
♦ Friends: Making friends has become easier with these social networking sites like facebook, google+ and twitter etc. in olden days it was a bit tough to make friends unless and until one has personal interest of going out and making friends. Later after in the decades of 70’s and 80’s mobile phones helped in connecting and improving conversation with people. And now the exploration of social networking sites sprang up and it has changed the whole idea of making friends once more and forever. We can make unlimited friends worldwide and chat with them without any time limit and even at free of cost. Now a day’s even we can have a video chat which is also available for free of cost. This can be considered as one of the best advantages of having social networking sites. We can connect with friends whom we missed out in out childhood.
♦ Empathy: By connecting with friends through social networking sites we share all of our good and bad experiences with friends. This will improve the relationship between friends and thus creating good bonding. Thus by sharing both good and bad experiences with friends, we will be able to empathize with each other. Sharing one’s experiences with friends will also give mental relaxation.
♦ Rapid communication: Everybody is becoming so busy with their lives that they don’t even have time to communicate with their family members. Our time is getting thinner and thinner with busy work schedule and family commitments. Social networking sites give us a chance to communicate in a speedy and effective manner. Writing in face book, Google+ and twitter will reach as many people as we want just in a span of seconds and with no cost. These sites will allow us to live a life which is unhindered with a small talk.
♦ Be in touch with the world: Not only communicating with friends within the circle but we can also make friends worldwide easily. We can build a network of friends and we can share our ideas, photos and videos through these sites. Through this we can have updated news of friends and family members. We can emphasize our location by using location based services like foursquare and gowalla.
♦ Building relationship and finding a common ground in an open society: We can make a strong relationship with friends and relatives through these sites. This can help foster friendship and more besides strengthen us. Because friend is the only person with whom we can share everything related to our life. Connecting with groups will help in improving one’s own business, thus creating profits. Professional sites like LinkedIn will have many groups based on different criteria. Through LinkedIn people get jobs and some promote their business.
● Negative impacts:
Social media, now a day’s is leaving a negative impact rather being positive. Most of the youth spend lot of time on the internet to visit and check their single or multiple accounts. This will affect students, youth and productivity of work because of the extreme use of technology. The risks of using social media may also include mental health, cyber bulling, texting and revelation to problematical and unlawful content and privacy violations.
♦ Cyber bulling: Usage of social media may create a chance for emotional distress in getting frightening, irritating and degrading communication from another teenager which is called cyber bulling. It’s been proved that cyber bulling will build advanced levels of depression and anxiety for victims and also resulted in youth suicide. Most of the females become victims of this cyber bulling.
♦ Texting: Texting is used to harass people. Using cell phones and social networking sites for instant messaging to threaten, and hassle relationship partners is increasing day by day. One in three teens in relationships has been text messaged up to 30times an hour by a partner to know where they are, what they are doing, or who they are with.
♦ Privacy: Most of the teenagers are not aware of the website policies when setting their profiles and they may not be even aware of disclosing the information to the third parties like the advertisers. Most of the teenagers like to post their information publicly which will affect them when the hackers or people with cruel intension may use their information for wrong purposes.
In the modern 21st century media has become an inseparable part of our lives. But this comes with both pros and cons. No doubt media helps us to communicate better, voice our opinions, come together on one platform but anything in excess is always bad. We all are influenced by media upto a certain limit. But social media has captured mostly the attention of the future of our country. Yes our YOUNGSTERS are greatly influenced by social media. I am not saying that media is all bad. It has its own advantages. But there are more disadvantages than advantages of using social media. According to a study teenagers spend as much as five hours on checking social apps. Not only does this affect their health severely and turn them into couch potatoes but also they lose interest in day to day activities. This has a serious consequences on their studies as they find their minds distracted. Youngsters are forced rather convinced to believe in fake instagram lives .Also a teen is bullied if he/she doesn't use certain apps .This all leads to a vicious cycle of creating inferiority complexes .There are many inappropriate sites on the internet which are knowingly or unknowingly gets accessed by teenagers. Also teens are easy targets for hackers and misusers .I for one believe that one should use social media but only upto a certain extent. We must know where we have to draw a line. Thank you