Negative Effects of Social Media on Youth: A Survey Research

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Introduction
The social media, especially the forums such as facebook and instagram whereby the
users post events from their daily lives and that is how people seek the personal touch in their
lives which has been almost lost due to the social and economic pressure and compulsions of the
modern world. Thus the emotional touch of the life is being sought by virtual means, that is
through social media forums like facebook and instagram as the busy modern life has made it
possible for human beings to keep in touch with their loved ones on a frequent basis. This shows
that the social media sites are beneficial as it helps human beings to make up for the loss of
personal life due to the bureaucratic commitments necessitated by the economic and social
pressure of the modern world (Anderson and Jiang).
On the flip side there are several disadvantages associated with the over usage of the
social media sites and they affect the youth especially. In this particular survey research seven
key issues which affect the personal lives of the youth negatively due to the use of social media
shall be researched upon. The currently researches tend to opine that :-
- Social Media diverts attention from studies (Lau)
- Social Media has devalued relationships (Anderson and Jiang)
- Social Media provides an illusory view of life (Lau)
- Social Media causes misuse of personal details (Anderson and Jiang)
- Social Media creates loneliness (Anderson and Jiang)
- Social Media has made sex easily available (Anderson and Jiang)
- Social Media has led to increased marital infidelity (Anderson and Jiang)

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Through this particular survey research the aim is to prove the validity of the
abovementioned 7 hypotheses, which are the research questions sourced from the reading of the
available literature on the negative effects of social media on youth.
Methodology
Three kinds of methodology has been followed for this particular research,
- The qualitative method of literature review to gather the hypotheses and the research
questions. On the basis of reading the literature the seven research questions had been
sourced which was used to guide the research.
- The survey method following the snowball sampling technique for collecting the
responses based on the research questions. A sample consisting of 15 persons, 7 men
and 8 women were sent a set of 10 questions each by online means from within my
university and they were supposed to be answered by means of ticking the Agree,
Disagree or No opinion option for each of the seven research questions.
- The deductive approach of Karl Popper has been used to analyze the data collected by
the survey and thereby either validate or invalidate the hypotheses sourced from
literature review of the existing works of the research scholars. The data analysis
involved the relation between the results of the literature review and the survey
research.