Write an article (180-200 words) about the impact of social media on children and adolescents
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Social Media Impact on Children and Adolescents
It is a stark reality social media has had an adverse impact on children and adolescents. ‘Social media and networking sites such as Facebook , Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, etc. have become source of major distractions for students. Young boys and girls seem to have become inordinately addicted to these sites. They are thoughtlessly and uselessly wasting their precious time on these sites.
Wise people say time well utilized is time well spent, but the youth of today is only and only wasting time on chatting, messaging, uploading photographs and modifying profiles. The smart phones and 4G connections have made the situation worse. Accessing such sites has become so easy that young boys and girls are using these sites almost everywhere and almost all the time. Similarly they wait for their favourite TV programs with such intense longing! The following questions need to be answered: ‘Where will this lead to? Are we heading towards only Facebook and Twitter perfection? Where are the objectives of attaining the status of an advanced country?’
There are so many challenges that we as a nation face. Challenges, such as population, poverty, unemployment, corruption, pollution, mismanagement of our natural resources, etc. Is it not a pathetic attitude of our youth to lose such objectives out of sight and instead waste their time, money and energy on such social networking sites so recklessly? Will Facebooking, Whatsapping, Twittering, Instagraming, Youtubing, etc. solve our national problems?
Students these days appear to be more worried about connecting to their friends on Facebook than being concerned about doing their studies, assignments and projects! The other major disadvantage of the increasing use of such networking sites is the spread of obscenity. This is having a very negative impact on the impressionable minds of our young children and leading them astray. Sitting in front of the screen for long hours also affects their health adversely in many ways.
The parents, teachers and the government must look into the problems being caused by these networking sites and must formulate a strategy either to curb or completely stop its fast growing negative influence on the minds of our youth. Our youth is the future of our nation. We cannot allow this youth to waste their precious time in doing the Facebook. The same time must be spent on studying, researching and developing leadership or other life-skills. It is our moral duty as well as responsibility to lead our youth on the right path. Efforts should be made in making our youth, especially the school students, aware of the disadvantages of such social networking sites. The concerned government authorities should make and implement some strict regulatory checks on the functioning of such networking sites in our country. Only with concerted efforts of parents, teachers and the government, this problem of addiction of our youth to networking sites can be removed.
We all see that Social media has become an addiction and in today's world we can observe that Children and Adolescents are getting attracted towards it very much. Being at social media is not bad at all when we know the limits of using it. There are many advantages of being at social media which help children and Adolescents to stay connected with each other so that whenever they will need anyone's help then they can consult with each other without any trouble. Social media helps in sharing of ideas and interests with one another which can make the children and adults to get better in Studying and most importantly social media is a sorce of information and educational assistance therefore it helps in getting ideas about study and it helps to solve the problems which are gotten while studying and this can help children and adults to get more information about any concept they are studying, but apart from all of these advanges social media contains disadvantages too. For an example - Cyber bullying is the most common problem which is faced by most of the teenagers, In cyber bullying one person bullies or harasses someone through social media like Whatsapp, facebook,Instagram etc. and in most of the cases when the teenagers don't take any step against it then it results in destruction of their career and future. Social isolation is also caused by social media, Children and adults get too addicted to social media that they get disconnected from their society and people living around them and it results in loneliness and anxiety which may harm their brain and health. Children and teens get too attracted towards social media that they don't take out time for their studies which make them weak in studies and radiations come from phones also harm their eyes.
These problems can only be solved if the adults and children would understand that they should use social media by being in their limits because it has been made for helping and giving information so if they would learn that how to use it properly then they will never get to face any problem in future