Effects of the Use of Social Media | English Essay

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The purpose of this essay is to discuss the effects of the use of social media on the
adolescent young people of the society. The social media has both positive and negative impacts
on the adolescent people and both those sections will be described in this essay for the
understanding of the readers.
At first, it must be mentioned that the adolescent people are those who are now young but
slowly growing up into an adult. It is very common that these young people will be affected by
the trends in the social media since they have gone through the interesting posts and
communicate with people of various countries (Radovic et al., 2017). As they are developing and
learning new things, they will have tremendous desire of absorbing all the things they learn.
Social media is also in that list. As per the recent statistical data in the year 2018, it has been
shown that the young people up to 95% can have the access to the social media through their
smartphones. On the other hand, around 45% of those adolescent people are online almost all the
hours they are awakened. Most researches have shown that these adolescent people have
tremendous desire to spend all their rimes by using various social media platforms such as
Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and many others. In the next part of the essay, some
advantages and disadvantages of using the social media will be discussed (Radovic et al., 2017).
The first advantage that the social media will give the adolescents is to stay very much
connected with their friends mostly. It is also very helpful to stay in touch with their parents if
they are on school excursions. They can connect with their relatives and peers through this mode
also (Kennedy, 2019). If they stay away from their home in hostels or residential schools, it will
be the only medium through which they could stay connected. In this manner, the adolescents
would be able to give updates to their families and friends about their lives on regular intervals.