EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTH
INTRODUCTION
Social media is a platform or application that allows people to share their views or perception in the public through an internet connection. It can also refer to an electronic site where users or people share their ideas through networking. Social media has got negative effects on youths as well as impacts or advantages too. Types of social media are Facebook, Tweeter, Skype, Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube.
EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTHS
Social media can cause suicide or self-harm since teenagers or youths can do something wired to attract the attention of the people on the social platform. They imitate how to commits suicide to show their brevity. This situation may worsen and they start sharing it through social media and this may encourage others to engage in the same act of suicide behavior through imitation.
Social media can lead to internet addiction as many people get exposed to new things in social media like chatting, watching pornographic movies, watching movies on YouTube this taking too much of their time to do meaningful things like domestic chores, doing homework. They then get addicted which can affect their personal life. Like teenagers, this can affect their performance in school or health status. It can also cause sleep Deprivation this is where teens can be active on social media chatting with friends until late hours. Especially Facebook where people post or share their views throughout the day and night without sleeping.
CONCLUSION
Social media is a good electronic platform which should be used for good purposes on doing research on jobs opportunity and also learning it can also be used to exercise our skills and therefore if not used wisely it can also bring negative effect to users such as sleepless night, poor performance in schools and therefore under eighteen should be restricted to logging into bad sites that can affect their lives negatively.