“Social Media negatively affects teenagers”. Whether you agree with this statement or not social media today has a huge impact not only adolescents but the wider community in general. The impact of social media can not only have effects on your business, your whereabouts’, your thoughts, pictures, employment both negatively and positively depending on its use. Teenagers of today are getting on board the social media bus and using this type of communication to be seen and heard. With many new and improved social media sites coming out, there is a danger for today’s generation to miss-use, be misguided and to be prayed upon. A delete button does not necessarily mean it is gone. Pictures and words stay on the internet forever - on the ‘cloud’.
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Magazines are telling your children to be perfect and social media sites like YouTube; where kids ask an internet audience to tell them if they are pretty or ugly. Teenagers are turning to the internet for body image validation because they see that in a way the internet acts like a super peer which provides them a quick route to satisfy themselves and how they want others to see them. The answers and reactions from their Facebook/ Instagram peers may not be the reaction they are looking for. This in turn can cause many varied reactions within the adolescent. If it is a bad reaction this can cause anxiety, depression, eating disorders, feelings that you are not good enough; bearing in mind that these comments/posts can be vindictive, insulting, trashy and in their hundreds to thousands. This bombardment of abuse can have a bad effect on any teenage mind. On the other side if it is a good reaction with affirming, gratifying and generally positive feedback, this in turn could add to someone’s self-worth and many make them post further more daring pictures for more feedback. The main thing to remember with any social media is the tone of feedback is often varied and can turn from good to bad very quickly at the touch of a button. Remembering also that friends of friends of friends can see your posts if your settings aren’t up to standard so your one …show more content…
My target age group (14 – 18) use Social Media on a daily basis – this was a staggering 72%, or every second day being 14% 1 – 2 hours a day. The oldest group 41 – 50 had a 60% every day to 40% never used and the usage time of only 10 – 30 minutes a day. This shows that the older generation don’t hold Social Media to the same status of teenagers, and probably hold more face to face conversations/visits as their choice of communication. The current trend for adolescents is to communicate on a wider basis through Social Media and this is growing. My personal opinion is that Social Media affects teenagers today and for the future due to new applications (apps) being invented bigger and better than the last. It also affects you in the way that you post both words and pictures because it will still be there in many years. To delete doesn’t get rid of it off the
Magazines are telling your children to be perfect and social media sites like YouTube; where kids ask an internet audience to tell them if they are pretty or ugly. Teenagers are turning to the internet for body image validation because they see that in a way the internet acts like a super peer which provides them a quick route to satisfy themselves and how they want others to see them. The answers and reactions from their Facebook/ Instagram peers may not be the reaction they are looking for. This in turn can cause many varied reactions within the adolescent. If it is a bad reaction this can cause anxiety, depression, eating disorders, feelings that you are not good enough; bearing in mind that these comments/posts can be vindictive, insulting, trashy and in their hundreds to thousands. This bombardment of abuse can have a bad effect on any teenage mind. On the other side if it is a good reaction with affirming, gratifying and generally positive feedback, this in turn could add to someone’s self-worth and many make them post further more daring pictures for more feedback. The main thing to remember with any social media is the tone of feedback is often varied and can turn from good to bad very quickly at the touch of a button. Remembering also that friends of friends of friends can see your posts if your settings aren’t up to standard so your one …show more content…
My target age group (14 – 18) use Social Media on a daily basis – this was a staggering 72%, or every second day being 14% 1 – 2 hours a day. The oldest group 41 – 50 had a 60% every day to 40% never used and the usage time of only 10 – 30 minutes a day. This shows that the older generation don’t hold Social Media to the same status of teenagers, and probably hold more face to face conversations/visits as their choice of communication. The current trend for adolescents is to communicate on a wider basis through Social Media and this is growing. My personal opinion is that Social Media affects teenagers today and for the future due to new applications (apps) being invented bigger and better than the last. It also affects you in the way that you post both words and pictures because it will still be there in many years. To delete doesn’t get rid of it off the