Social Media apps are definitely the most used smartphones app category in the world, ranging from Facebook and Instagram to WeChat and Whatsapp. But, what effect do they put on young children, teens, and teenagers.
Positives:
Spread of Awareness: Especially with what’s going right now in 2020, social media is a great way to spread awareness not only to young adults and children, even adults could taste the awareness of social media since news spreads like wildfire.
Social Skills: Social Media is a great way to enhance social skills, because talking with people and interacting with them could really develop verbal and hearing skills.
Express: Social media actually makes a child better about themselves by providing the opportunity of expressing themselves freely.
Negatives:
Bullying: Bullying could be one of the worst issues of social media especially with teens using it for more than 3 hours a day. Also when child gets bullied he doesn’t know who bullied him, especially without being monitored a bullied child could lead to depression and low self esteem.
Self Esteem: As we all know, social media has become an important part of a teen‘s life, thinking always what would people say sbout their looks when they post on social media and getting a low amount of views or likes, this really could affect their self esteem and confidence toward themselves.
Addiction: Social Media gets very dangerous when a child or a teenager is pulled and addicted toward an endless loop of videos that goes on and on with no stopping.
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