Effect of Social Media Platform for development of career skills of Adolescents

Running head: EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
CAREER SKILLS OF ADOLESCENTS
Effect of Social Media Platform for development of career skills of Adolescents
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EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER SKILLS
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Introduction
The usage of the social media is an integral part of lives of the adolescents. The
adolescents in the present age use the social media platforms like Youtube, Instagram along
with the Snapchat that helps them in staying connected in the world. Around 95 % of the
teenagers have access to the smartphone and 45 % admit to the fact that they stay online
constantly (Moreno et al. 2015). Adolescents in the present age make use of the social media
platforms so that they can develop career skills. The adolescents can nurture the career skills
with the help of the variety of social media platforms like the Youtube and the Instagram.
The social media platforms facilitates the adolescent in the development of the career skills
that helps them in developing the professional career. The adolescents can nurture the
presentation skills along with the time management skills that helps them in the development
of their professional career. The communication with the friends along with the family causes
the adolescents in Australia to make use of technology. Social media has emerged to become
an important aspect in lives of adolescents in Australia as it helps them in sharing the
interests and exploring the identities. The usage of the social media among the adolescents in
Australia helps them in staying connected to the global communities on the basis of their
interests. This literature review throws light on the role that is played by social media for the
development of the career skills among the adolescents.
Social Media Platforms in the Present Age
There are various kinds of social media platforms in the modern age like Facebook,
Twitter, Linked In, Google +, You tube, Pinterest along with the Instagram. Face Book has
more than that of 1.59 billion monthly active user that helps in connecting people across that
of the world (Huda et al. 2017). Business in the present age make use of Twitter so that they
can carry out interaction with the prospective clients. Linked in is another social media

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platform that is used for the purpose of the professional networking. It helps in connecting the
people who are from the similar industries and it helps in displaying the business related
information along with the statistics. The SEO value of Google + has helped it in becoming
popular in the present age that caters to the need of the small business in the present age. You
tube is the name of the social media website that is video-based that is hugely popular among
the young people in the present age. According to Gandini (2016), the social media platform
of Pinterest makes use of the digital bulletin boards that helps the business in pinning the
content. Instagram is the name of the visual social media platform. This platform has got
various kinds of filters along with the photo editing features.
Social Media use that can enhance career skills among Adolescents
The social media tools have become accessible on Internet in the present age and they
can easily be accessed in the present age with the help of various kinds of applications on the
smartphones. It has been argued by Yonker et al. (2015), that the social media helps the
adolescents in the present age in the arena of social comparison along with the self-disclosure
that has made them popular in the recent age. The adolescents can share the information with
the other people by making usage of the platform of the social media. According to Weinstein
(2018), the adolescents take recourse to the platform of the social media for the purpose of
impression management. It helps the adolescents in highlighting the positive aspects in
relation to their self and it minimizes the characteristics that are thought of to be unattractive
in the society. There are various kinds of new social media platforms like the Snapchat,
Instagram along with the Tumblr that helps in the development of the youth in the present
age. The social media is used by the youth for various kinds of adolescent development task
that is inclusive of the identity development along with the aspirational development
(Vermeulen, Vandebosch and Heirman 2018). The adolescents strive for the aspect of the
autonomy in the present age that makes them take recourse to the social media platforms. It