A case study on the negative effects of social media on adolescent behaviour.
This is a stage of transformation from childhood to adulthood physical and mental
behaviour. Lack of guidance or follow up from appropriate sources like parents and
school teachers on teenagers may lead them making bad decisions which may affect
them adversely.
Social media is defined as the means of interactions among people in which they
create , share and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and
networks (communication and marketing). People think that social media is so
important in our society today to an extent that it is virtually very difficult for people
to take you seriously unless you are on social media platforms. Generally everyone is
in social media be it young , rich , old, or poor. The most popular social media
networks include ; snap chat ,Facebook, twitter ,Instagram and the What Sapp.
Popularity of social media keeps spreading all over the world and therefore it
influences people.
Media can influence how children and teens feel , think ,learn and behave. The
influence sometimes can sometimes be negative. (healthy children. Org). These
negative effects of social media on adolescent behaviours include;
, One of the negative effects of social media on teenagers is Facebook depression. Of
course its caused by using the social media. Teenagers tend to post about their day to day
activities on social media. The social media counterparts may make a teenager to feel
inferior by maybe giving or commenting negatively on the post that a teenager had posted.
This may in return result to lowering self-esteem of the teenager or even end up being
depressed. This depression is the one that is referred to as Facebook depression. Its all
caused by the feeling that you want to fit in or be accepted by the Facebook friends.
Social media can also cause anxiety. Teenagers tend to be more anxious about
knowing how other people way of life and they really spend a lot of time on stalking and
forget about themselves. These teenagers become victims of social media because their
moods and thoughts are affected. It is therefore advisable to spend little time instead of
spending the whole day on social media. We all need good mental health for our personal
life (study finds 2022)
Social media can lead to teenagers joining cult group practices and illuminate people.
Social media consists of all different kind of people. All these people of course have different
way of life and different religion and different ways of worship. If the person who the
teenagers admires so very much or even the person they consider as their role model is in
some practices like cult or illuminati, there is a high possibility that this teenager will want to
start doing the same for either fame or to look like the role model. These illiminati and cult
groups can lead to killing of other people in the society especially the ones they love which
is considered as a sacrifice to these cults.
This is a stage of transformation from childhood to adulthood physical and mental
behaviour. Lack of guidance or follow up from appropriate sources like parents and
school teachers on teenagers may lead them making bad decisions which may affect
them adversely.
Social media is defined as the means of interactions among people in which they
create , share and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and
networks (communication and marketing). People think that social media is so
important in our society today to an extent that it is virtually very difficult for people
to take you seriously unless you are on social media platforms. Generally everyone is
in social media be it young , rich , old, or poor. The most popular social media
networks include ; snap chat ,Facebook, twitter ,Instagram and the What Sapp.
Popularity of social media keeps spreading all over the world and therefore it
influences people.
Media can influence how children and teens feel , think ,learn and behave. The
influence sometimes can sometimes be negative. (healthy children. Org). These
negative effects of social media on adolescent behaviours include;
, One of the negative effects of social media on teenagers is Facebook depression. Of
course its caused by using the social media. Teenagers tend to post about their day to day
activities on social media. The social media counterparts may make a teenager to feel
inferior by maybe giving or commenting negatively on the post that a teenager had posted.
This may in return result to lowering self-esteem of the teenager or even end up being
depressed. This depression is the one that is referred to as Facebook depression. Its all
caused by the feeling that you want to fit in or be accepted by the Facebook friends.
Social media can also cause anxiety. Teenagers tend to be more anxious about
knowing how other people way of life and they really spend a lot of time on stalking and
forget about themselves. These teenagers become victims of social media because their
moods and thoughts are affected. It is therefore advisable to spend little time instead of
spending the whole day on social media. We all need good mental health for our personal
life (study finds 2022)
Social media can lead to teenagers joining cult group practices and illuminate people.
Social media consists of all different kind of people. All these people of course have different
way of life and different religion and different ways of worship. If the person who the
teenagers admires so very much or even the person they consider as their role model is in
some practices like cult or illuminati, there is a high possibility that this teenager will want to
start doing the same for either fame or to look like the role model. These illiminati and cult
groups can lead to killing of other people in the society especially the ones they love which
is considered as a sacrifice to these cults.
