Written By Adebambo Adedayo Abimbola
Social media refers to all applications and websites or blog that enable people around the globe to interconnect via the internet, chats , and share content, video call among many other functionalities it offers to its users . For a person to be a member of any social media, he or she has to first signup and then sign in to access content and to be able to share and chat with other users of that social media platform. Some of the common and widely used social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat many among others
Over the past two decades, social media has gained so much growth and fame worldwide to an extent that many researchers are now interested in learning more about those social platforms and their effects on the community. It is to this light that researchers has found that those social site impact the life of our youth in a society a great deal in terms of moral, behavior and even education wise . The use of social media has both negative and positive impact on our youth today. In this paper , I aim to bring the light on the impact of social media specifically to the youth of this generation, these impact are both positive and negative.
The positive impact of social media on the youth today include making them up to date on the event happening around the globe and also enable them network and stay connected with their fellow youth and friends without physical meetings. I’m additionally youth can create pages and groups in a social media platforms based on their profession, faith among other dimensions of their lives and it leads to more connections being built and more opportunities being opened for their respective disciplines ..
The negative impact on social media on the youth today include making them misspelling of words and misuse of words and tenses through the use of short forms and abbreviations. It also affects their language capabilities directly and this lead to poor grades in languages . It also expose those teens to pornographic content being spread in some social groups online . It can also lead one to join groups of cults and illuminate people, which in turn can also lead to frequent killing of people in society especially loved ones as a sacrifice to those cults.
In conclusion, social networks has been proved to have both positive and negative effect on our youth. Individuals should make a conclusion whether to go on using the site or stop or even moderate on their usage. Parents should guide and advice their children on the current matter like the usage of social media and warn them of its negative impact to them when misuse or over used. The education curriculum also should be revised so that it can include social media studies in its disciplines so as to alert students that they need to be careful on their social media usage.
Adebambo Adedayo Abimbola is a student of icon universal polytechnic
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