Social Media Utilization - Article

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Social Media Utilization, Youth Presentation, and Negative Consequences
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Selected Article Related to the Issue...........................................................................................................4
Excessive Use of Social Media and Lack of Control......................................................................................5
Psychological Impacts on Classroom Attendance and Distorted Body Image..............................................6
Addiction to Internet and Facebook Depression.........................................................................................7
Psychological Impacts on Academic Soundness and Performance..............................................................9
Psychological Impacts Leading to Declined Family Connections...............................................................10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................12
References.................................................................................................................................................14

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Social Media Utilization, Youth Presentation, and Negative Consequences
Introduction
The representations of young people in the twenty first century often get extremely
complicated and heavily mixed with a number of different aspects that address different parts of
their mentalities and behavioral approaches. A great part of the general population's scrutinized
perception of youngsters rotates around guardians' apparent powerlessness to be required with
their kids and show them the correct esteem (Theocharis, 2015). It is not quite recently the
elderly who question the absence of qualities they find in the youth; guardians of young people
share similar concerns. Youngsters appear to be powerless against solid outer powers: drug,
liquor, savagery, sex, and the social media. Without the correct esteems to vaccinate them from
negative impacts, adolescents could succumb to these weights. Among these aspects, the part of
social media empowered by the internet seems to be the most influential. The regularly
proclaimed easily accessible availability of internet-based services has been accepted and
appreciated whole heartedly specifically by the youngsters (Kim, 2016). Historically, until the
twenty-first century, the youngsters have had never delighted in such a chance to make
themselves obvious to and heard by, assorted gatherings of people. Along the same lines, this
introduction is associated with different hazards. In addition, there are sexual orientation
contrasts in the web utilization and online networking use example of the young. The substance
posted by the users on various social media platforms exhibits an online self. Self-introduction is
by and large thought to be persuaded by a want to establish an ideal connection on others or a
feeling that relates to one's goals (Blair, Claster and Claster, 2015). All things considered, self-
introduction is midway engaged with impression administration and the projection of an online
personality. In this regard, it would be extremely important to assess how the youth are

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represented on the media and especially on the social media platforms. The current paper will
evaluate and critique a particular online article which demonstrates a report describing the
impact of social media platforms on the youth. Thereafter, it would be critical to evaluate how
the youth are presented in a general manner on the media platforms in twenty-first century.
Selected Article Related to the Issue
The selected article explores that Instagram has proved to be the most negatively
affecting social media platform on the metal health and psychological status of the youth (Fox,
2017). The author has cited a report which has surveyed a number of social media users on
different platforms and discovered the outcomes. It has also been demonstrated that Snapchat
also has a immensely negative impact on the psychological status of the youngsters. However,
Instagram seems to be the most influencing due to its offered features. As Instagram provides the
users to filter their photographs so that the virtual existence becomes more beautiful than the
reality, it might exploit the inferiority complex, anxiety, and the desire to cope up with the virtual
beauty at large (Fox, 2017). In this manner, when an user notices a photo on the platform and if
he/she does not consider the fact that the photograph has been altered and filtered, it might have
a significant impact on the psychological status of that user. It is indeed a fact that such features
and services might create a misleading conception among the youngsters regarding the actual
reality of the body image and might also lead them to use similar services so that they can
develop a feeling that they belong to such digitized aspect (Fox, 2017). In this manner, the
facilities are extremely detrimental to the psychological status of the youth and the author has
appropriately assessed this in the light of the report.