Impact of social media on adolescents.
Being an adult is not something easy I must say, life has been showing differently from the past times, the more one ages, the more one gets to realize what it takes to become one. Gone were the times when we have always wished to become an adult so bad. Only if we knew what adults were passing through then we might have wanted to remain our age and way of life then.
Now I wish I could just go back to my adolescent age and try correcting one or two, but I think it's already too late to go back. What matters is the present time I am living now, how am I handling it?
I can say the internet and social media has made a lot of impact on our children and even adults. But still fair enough for adults because they already saw life in a better way compared to children. Though not all adults could see it better, and not all children are seeing it the wrong way.
Social media nowadays is filled with various things, if you want it academically then you will get it, if you want entertainment, there is a section for it, maybe you want to build connections then that's another. It just depends on what you want.
Another funny thing about it is that it already got programmed that they keep bringing you to anything related to what you feel interested in watching or doing. So the more you dig, the more you see.
Impacts on adolescents.
This is one of the most delicate stages of human life, and this is because at this point it’s like an introduction to life. The point of view at which an adolescent sees life will have a strong impact on how the rest of their life will be. For those who are early to mature physically sometimes get tempted to feel pride from their stature and through that make the wrong move and decisions.
As an adolescent, we were not that much familiar with social media and this is because it was at that time when social media came to limelight. So I can say we are like the stone age of social media.
But in recent times adolescents are already into social media even beforehand. They already got the exposure, and familiarise themselves with it. So it’s nothing new to them. A lot of them get the goodies out of it and many of them get the other side of it.
I have seen a lot of teenagers take advantage of the media to learn more and also improve their life through learning from what they saw online. This is the positive impact social media could have on us, some might get inspired and motivated to even do better with what they saw on the media.
On the other end there are also a lot of distractions from the media too. There are times when you watch some adolescent dress inappropriately showing off sensitive parts of their body just to seek likes and follow on their accounts. Some do it for the monetary aspect of it but the question is at what cost and to which extent will they have to keep up with that? Where is shame and the reputation of their family and generations to come.
Social as a advantage and disadvantages. We have some adolescent they will search some skills they want to learn while some will just search what they suppose not to search. It remind when I was scrolling through my Tiktok I came across a girl maybe 15 years or even lesser than that, wearing inappropriate dress not only that she was showing off how big her breasts was, I was like what why her parents doing for allowing her to do such thing. I must say she came across such thing when she was scrolling through her phone.
The moment she started giving them money and tell her she is earning from TikTok, maybe parents that doesn’t care or know what the media is all about. They might encourage her. But it’s a pity that she was only after the moment and forgot the future.
It’s a two sided coin. The choice is left for us to make.
social media has its advantages and disadvantages it all depends on us how we use it for good or for bad.
Teenages this days doesn't care and the fact that their parents support them is even alarming. No kore fear of parents anymore
When you talk about the distraction social media causes it's numerous, it has taken away the real happiness from some family, and it will continue if nothing is done about it.