media impact on teenagers
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n this new technology filled world that we live in today the rise in social media websites is not surprising. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are just a few of the sites that help keep us in contact with our loved one and friends. However, in teens it appears that the trend seems to be taking a turn for the worst. Teens are notorious for spending ample amount of time on the phone talking to their friends. Now more than ever they have access to thousands upon thousands of new people to communicate with online and that can take up a lot of time in their lives. The excessive use of social media sites in teens can have a negative effect on teenagers' physical and psychological health.
In almost every classroom that you walk in to they now have signs that says no cell phones, or in the computer lab the signs read no Facebook, Twitter etc. It has become such a big issue with teens checking their accounts in school. Students may be in class, but their minds are on how many "likes" their picture got last night. Teachers are having a harder time getting a grip on the situation because it interferes with classroom studies. When teens get home after spending all day at school they could care less about doing homework. Instead they hop onto their profiles and see what everyone else is doing (Marwick, Boyd). Their sleeping habits can also have a negative toll on them. Teens stay up to 12 or 1 AM scrolling down their newsfeed. They end up only getting four to five hours of sleep which is definitely not enough to function properly through the day (Marwick, Boyd).
Cyberbullying also has risen in the past few years (Khan, Wohn, and Ellison). Now people can't escape the torture they receive at school, for it follows them everywhere now. In many occasions, what people are not willing to say in person, they have the guts to say it online. They are hidden behind a screen where they are safe from seeing what effects their words have on people. Addition...
In almost every classroom that you walk in to they now have signs that says no cell phones, or in the computer lab the signs read no Facebook, Twitter etc. It has become such a big issue with teens checking their accounts in school. Students may be in class, but their minds are on how many "likes" their picture got last night. Teachers are having a harder time getting a grip on the situation because it interferes with classroom studies. When teens get home after spending all day at school they could care less about doing homework. Instead they hop onto their profiles and see what everyone else is doing (Marwick, Boyd). Their sleeping habits can also have a negative toll on them. Teens stay up to 12 or 1 AM scrolling down their newsfeed. They end up only getting four to five hours of sleep which is definitely not enough to function properly through the day (Marwick, Boyd).
Cyberbullying also has risen in the past few years (Khan, Wohn, and Ellison). Now people can't escape the torture they receive at school, for it follows them everywhere now. In many occasions, what people are not willing to say in person, they have the guts to say it online. They are hidden behind a screen where they are safe from seeing what effects their words have on people. Addition...
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Media has quite a deep impact on teenagers. Impact of both good and bad. Social media and networking sites such as Insta, Facebook etc.have become source of major distraction for teenagers. Boys and Girls seem to have become inordinately addicted to these sites. They are wasting their precious time on these worst sites. Wise people say time well utilised is time
well spent, but childrens of Morden time only wasting time on chatting, messaging, uploading photos and modifying profiles
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