Influence of social media in interpersonal skills on teenagers

This study analyzes the impact of social media on teenagers' interpersonal skills. It discusses the influence of social media on teen depression, social comparison, and health hazards. The study concludes that social media helps teenagers develop communication skills, but obsession over curated content and intense desire to follow favorite personas can negatively impact their emotional intelligence and nonverbal skills.

Influence of social
media in interpersonal
skills on teenagers

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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Social media is now becoming a essential and big part of teenager's life, as per the
survey it has been revealed that teenagers of age group 13-17 years are constantly online and
majority of them are using social media platforms like Instagram, Youtube, Facebook or
SnapChat. Pressure to be available 24/7 over social media sites is a really challenging for
teenagers as well as worry for parents as long exposure to the such platforms affects their mental
and physical developments. Like technology, social media also has its upside and downside as
when it comes about studying the impact it has both pros and cons on the lives of teenagers
(Purba and Istiana, 2020). This study on the topic is significant as internet is easily available and
accessible to the people without any limits and age bar which makes a impact over interpersonal
skills and development of people especially teenagers as they are in the stage of development. In
this study, analysis of social media on education of teenagers can not be included as the prime
objective of the report is to mark the influence of extensive use of social media platforms in
development of interpersonal skills in teenagers.
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A. Topic sentence : Teen Depression and Negative behaviour
B. Supporting sentence: With the extensive use of internet and staying aimlessly, scrolling
updates feeds and stories of followers and following over Instagram has caused a great sense of
teen depression and mental illness (Orben, Dienlin and Przybylski, 2019). Due to over watching
of fancy images and videos on social media platforms creates a intense desire for the person to
become or act in a desired manner which is showed over such platforms and which makes an
appeal to viewers to follow and likes the posts due to their unique features and attributes. When
teenagers watch attractive and appealing content on such platforms and creates an intense desire
to complete that whim or wish. In ability to complete such desire creates frustration and results
into negative and unaccepted behaviour that results into depression and anxiety. Obsession and
intense desire to look good among teenagers has lead to the mental illness and depression
(Salomon and Brown, 2019).
Whereas, some times these factors also act as healing factors for the teenagers who feel
isolate and unaccepted by the society. Social media platforms plays a important role in providing
support, advice and confidence to teenagers who feel alone, wants to express their views,

creativity and expressions and staying in touch with the family, friends and loved ones. For
example teenagers of LGBTQ community can stay connected and socially interactive with the
people.
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A: Topic Sentence: Social comparison
B: Supporting sentence: Evidently, teenagers spent most of their time over social media
platforms by watching the image and video content of their friends, family and relatives which
gradually develops the sense of constant comparison and affects their self esteem, confidence,
body image and development of further skills. Another factor is when teenagers come across
several accomplishments and illusive content of their followers they become jealous and develop
a feeling hatred. For example: when peers post curated image of luxurious things or some other
possession which seems difficult to get, creates a feeling of covet and intense dislike for that
person which affects their emotional intelligence (Boers, and et. al., 2019).
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A: Topic Sentence: Health hazards or healthy inspiration
B: Supporting sentence: With over indulgence over social media platforms teenagers gets
influenced and effected by the social media content. When teenagers watch social media
influencers, artists, actor or actresses, they create an intense desire to look like them and follow
their routines, health and diet charts. Calorie counting, fasting and over exercise are the some of
the threats which can cause harm to the health of teenagers (Hawes, Zimmer-Gembeck and
Campbell, 2020) .
Conclusion
Therefore, it has been concluded that social media some how helps the teenager in
developing communication skills to be able to interact with other friends, family and loved ones.
From the above stated information it has been observed that obsession over curated content and
intense desire to follow favourite persona makes a significant impact on teenagers. Furthermore,
the from the study conducted it has been seen that it affects the teenagers emotional intelligence
and non verbal skills as by making comparison it affects their ability to maintain good body
postures while taking as there is lack of self esteem.

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