Detrimental Effect of Social Medial on Youngesters

Running head: DETRIMENTAL EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUNGSTERS
DETRIMENTAL EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUNGSTERS
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INTRODUCTION
Social media is the way to communicate and share information through internet
connectivity (Obar and Wildman 2015). This media enables ones in expressing self, reach the
people in seconds, and communicate with people in distance as well as to reduce the stress
and provide the entertainment. Social media is constantly surrounding the everyday life of
people and especially the young generation. They always remaining engaged with their
phones, laptops or other gadgets all day long. They are literally got addicted with it which
leaving a detrimental effect on their ability to interact with others or being sociable , study,
mental as well as physical health and causing cyber bullying.
Detrimental Impact on Social Skill:
Verbal communication is an inevitable part of daily life. Nowadays the people
especially the youngsters prefer to interact with the peers, friends through e-devices without
being engaged in face-to-face communication. Even when they are in public place without
concentrating on the people present in their side and sharing feeling, view or discussing any
other information they just used to look on their device and prefer texting as well as
interacting in the virtual world. Thus, the excessive use of the social media makes the people
to interact less in person and more through social network. This trend gradually creates the
social anxiety which instilling the fear among the young people, as they are unaware about
the proper way and techniques to speak in person. They are unaware about the way to
approach anyone, how and where to hold and give smile. This inability leaves them isolated
(Griffiths 2013).
Detrimental Impact on Education:
The consequences of social networking for the students proved to be very devastating.
The students generally carries phone with them and become busy in surfing the internet even

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when they are in the classroom and be inattentive to their study. The students get distracted
from their study and prefer to waste their time on social networking. Nowadays the students
are becoming less attentive to study or research about something. They just used to surf the
internet and take the available information provided there. They do not sleep properly just
stay awake late night only to go through the social network and even after waking up; they
are habituated to check their social account. This makes their brain dull and leaves depressed
as well as unproductive with minimum score in assessment (Pieters et al. 2014). Sometimes it
can also make the students got fail in exams. (Samaha and Hawi 2016).
Reason of Cyber bullying:
Cyber bullying refers to the act of using the electronic devices to threat someone,
create fear within the person intentionally. Social media works for cyber bullies as an
opportunity or a platform to disturb and threat the targeted one easily than doing it physically.
They used to create insecurities within one through insulting on look, specific race and social
status and many other things. This can lead to serious mental problems like, depression,
stress, anxiety. This can make life unhappy and sometimes it can lead to death or suicide
attempt, which is evident in case of Dolly Everett, the 14-year-old girl who committed
suicide due to cyber bullying (Thompson 2018). There was another 13-year-old girl called
Emily Stick, who committed suicide due to constant physical and verbal cyber bullying as
well as peer abuse in her school (NewsComAu 2019). Thus, the youngsters’ immature
handling of social media increasing the rate of cyber bully and creating other harmful
consequences.
Admittedly, the social networking has many beneficial aspects like, it enables people
to reach and connect with the people worldwide. It enables the long distance relationships to
sustain. It makes the people specially the teenagers or the students able to search, gain