30-1-22

Monday

Impact of Social Media on Children

1. Social media is a rapidly evolving platform for younger people to communicate with each
other, express themselves, and share content of all kinds. It has given rise to a new cultural
paradigm that drives technology and businesses, while changing the way people interact. As a
tool, social media is a double-edged sword. While it has many benefits, it can also influence
youngsters in unhealthy ways.
2. Spending time online is important for the younger generation to pick up necessary technical
skills they will need to navigate their way through the future. It allows them to be competent
citizens in a digital age, where they can fully participate in the broader society
3. Students are using it to form study groups, where they can easily and instantaneously share
ideas and learning material.
4. Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships.” --- David
Alston, author
5. Social networking has also changed the way kids learn. It has introduced a more peer-based
learning method, where students are motivated to learn from their peers.
6. It has been observed that social media makes people more empathetic, considerate, and
relationship-oriented. They express how they feel, by commenting or liking pictures, videos
or status updates posted by their friends.
7. Kids maintain long-term friendships with others by staying in touch with them online, even
when they can no longer meet each other in person.
8. A popular opinion of the impact of social media on children is that it does more harm than
good.
9. 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.
10. Youngsters addicted to social media end up spending hours, each day, watching videos,
photos, and other content posted in the accounts they follow. This addiction disrupts other
activities, twice as likely to suffer from poor mental health.
11. “Social media is not a safe space.” – Tarana Burke
12. Teens such as school work, sports, study, and other productive routines. They end up wasting
a substantial amount of time.
13. Psychologists have long observed bad effects of social media on the mental health of children.
One finding suggests that children spending more than three hours a day on social media are
14. are also observed to be suffering from “Facebook depression” after spending too much time
on it or other social networking sites. Some also become anxious and moody, as they see that
the lives of their friends are better than their’s
15. While some teenagers get affected by the pressure of having to react to posts of their friends
or respond to messages, others fear not being in the social loop, which is called FOMO (fear
of missing out).
16. 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.