Influenced & Vulnerable: The Social Media Effect On Adolescents
The world has advanced and there is a whole lot more of the advancement to come, we can't stop that. The only thing we can do is, strike a balance and remind ourselves not to be controlled by our own creations. Humans end up controlled by their creations, it is a very concerning situation.
Generally, the world of social media has played big roles in influencing the real world lifestyles and causing many to be vulnerable to what it has to offer. But we do know it is more on our growing children especially our curious adolescents who have access to social media.
No doubt, there are more adolescents having access to social media than in the past where only few had a phone for just calls to keep order at home when parents are away. The phones now allow people access way more than before and so users need more guidance to make use of it.
I remember the first time I had access to a phone that allows me create and grow a social media account (Facebook), I got addicted to it, trying to grow likes and following people who now, I believe were just living fake lives online and misleading whoever would believe them, it's sad.
I can still remember how bad I'd feel when my guardians threatens to seize my phone because I got lazy doing chores and would prefer to chat all day if I'm allowed to. It was crazy really, struggling to sleep when my phone is just lying around was an everyday fight I mostly didn't win.
That was then, there were only a few of us actually earning from social media or online but today, we have lots of our adolescents earning on these social media apps. While that is true and is beneficial for them, there are many wasting all their time doing nothing productive on the apps.
The Effects Are Very Worrisome
- Lack of sleep slowly causing brain damage.
- Total reliance causing no use of the brain.
- Give potential to lead a copied wayward life.
- Get bored so easily and resort to bad habits.
- Loosing the value for real life connections.
I can actually go on and on about the effects social media have on the mental health of our adolescents and yeah, not just them but to many who are addicted or rely on these apps. Our adolescents who can be very curious about everything needs extra attention at that stage.
I believe a family where the children are well engaged at home and taught to enjoy family time, enjoy moments away from social media and value the joy in spending time with family, such a family would rarely have adolescents that are addicted to social media for the wrong reasons.
I've always imagined a world where we would utilize social media for all the advantages it has to offer, imagine our adolescents getting them for good purpose and becoming better persons because of social media, it's one of the great benefits and reasons to let them use these apps.
Sadly, there is always going to be the downside of anything and our parents or guardians have a responsibility towards our adolescents to make the right call when they are vulnerable and exposed to being influenced on social media, we want the positive sides, we should work on that.
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I was really impressed by reading this article. The real picture that the author has presented through his own experience really shows how deep the impact of social media can be. While today's teenagers are benefiting from its good side, there is also no less danger of going the wrong way. There is a great need for writing that makes us aware. Thank you for sharing such constructive words in such a beautiful way.
Glad I shared, hopefully more people will understand this too.
Hmm. We are messing up with our sleep badly and it directly impact on our mental health. Moreover, we are obsessed with social media that we are using social media rather than spending quality time with family members. It also affect us menially indirectly.
There are a lot of negative effects and we have to identify and put a balance.
The lack of sleep part got me laughing cos it’s very accurate. Those days I would stay up all night just bomb on Facebook. It was really a total waste of my time.
Lol total waste of time really.
These days, this youngsters barely have time to sleep and it's not like they are reading. They just glued to their phones ready to devour the latest contents as it drops. The dangers of social media to this adolescents needs to be curbed before it wrecks us all
Lol do we even have much of people reading as in the past anymore, we can only hope that more will be reminded of how things should be done instead.
Every year jamb reduces their cut off mark. Imagine getting into the university with 150/400 that's not even half the mark
Jesus
The part that touched me if we want positive sides of it, we should work on it.
I have a job to do
Let me tighten my seat belt 🥳
Haha I'm sure you got this, God will help you momma 🥰
Like fr I could literally see myself in that part where you talked about struggling to sleep ‘cause your phone's just there calling your name 😅. Social media can be useful, yeah, but it can also drain you without you even realizing. Balance is everything fr.
Lol a lot of us have been there, but we grew and understood better.
Yeah, hoping the GenZ generation gets to outgrow it too, you know
This is a timely piece and a call for urgent digital parenting. We have to be deliberate in guiding the younger ones on the proper usage of social media
Yeah, you're right.
Some of the adolescent has developed the act of addiction to social media and this have affected them alot
It really has, the effects are evident.
Social media has some negative impacts on the adolescent therefore it's good to develop good managing strategy to curb this.
That's just it, we have to fight against the negatives.
Oh yes ma'am
This is really deep, sometimes because of how busy some parents and guardians are, they tend to give phones to their kids to pass away time. Parents have a lot of work to do, they need to find ways to engage this kids outside the Internet.
Yeah, parents get too busy nowadays making their kids engage too much with their phones.
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