The Impact of Social Media on Children's Minds and Brains

Running head: COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Communications and Social Change
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1COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Before attending class
Social media has been a very strong medium of influence on the people of different ages.
Especially it has a very long lasting negative impact on the minds of the children. All types of
media like the television, comic books and the comic games. The social media has laid huge
impacts on their minds for several years now (Childmind.org, 2018). The parents are very much
worried about the fact that the use of technology is harming the mind and the brains of the
children. This is why the growing time of the children is very much important for the growth of
their skills too (Madden et al., 2013).
The use of technology and use of social media tools like Facebook and Instagram have
been increased a lot in this era. This is why most people have become quite addicted to it. It has
been seen in many cases that the little children start playing with the iPhone or iPad of their
parents (Strasburger et al., 2013). The bad impacts of the social media are that it deviates the
mind of the people from their normal course of work. This is why the children should be kept
away from the use of the social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram (Boyd, 2014).
However, the children can also gather some good habits from using the social media as well. The
children should be able to learn about the adult issues from the social media platforms like
Facebook (Childmind.org, 2018).
After attending class
It is a very important fact that the children should be guided in the positive ways indeed.
However they should teach about the adult issues as well (Strasburger et al., 2013). This is why
the parents themselves should make them understand these issues by the help of the social media.
As the parents are the best teachers they should take the initiatives of teaching the children about