Effects of Social Networking on Youths

Social media refers to all applications and websites or blogs that enable people around the globe to interconnect via the internet, chat, 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 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.

Positive Effects of Social Networking

Education has become very convenient with the help of social media. Students can easily share important data for class work or assignments. It is also effective for gathering information to prepare project reports and other educational purposes. Teachers find it’s easy to keep their students updated with the class and exam schedules.

Social sites like LinkedIn, Naukri.com etc., save the effort of doing the whole employment process by traditional methods. It gives opportunities to candidates who are seeking for particular job profile. Employees as well as employers can search for jobs or people of their choice to work for or work with.

Negative Effects of Social Networking

No good thing comes without bearing consequences. As effective as social media is, there is a high chance that you are using it for wrong purposes. People are found wasting hours over hours on social sites acquiring zero productive information. Discount commercials influence people to spend unnecessarily.

Most sites used to have an age limitations earlier, but now with that being gone, youngsters are getting indulged in surfing at an increasing rate. And due to their immature age, they usually fall prey to the cyber bullying. This causes severe effect on the mental and emotional health of the youth.

Happy Learning!

Anamika Gupta 

IAAN