The Impact of Social Media on Adolescence: A Comprehensive Analysis

The impact of social media on adolescence
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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Current practice.............................................................................................................................10
Comparison of Literature Review and Current practice................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14
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Abstract
In today’s times, every single person uses social media like Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, and
Twitter to communicate with friends and family. Social media impact negatively on the life of
adolescence because they feel need to act on social media always. For communication, social
media is a great platform which is highly preferred by adolescence to chat with friends and to be
touch with them for a long time. It is highly important to educate adolescence about the impact
of social media on their life and growth. If they spend more and more time on social media then
their education will get affected negatively. It is a major responsibility of parents and teacher to
focus on their children and adolescence’s phones to ensure no dangers can arise. This report
literature review which is based on the impact of social media on adolescence through which so
many facts and factors can be identified as gaining more knowledge about the topic. Apart from
this current practice has been examined in which various issues and the problem of social media
on the life of adolescence has been discussed. Also, there is a comparison between current
practice and literature reviews. In the end, several findings have been identifying related to the
selected study which is helpful in gaining lots of new knowledge and information.
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Introduction
Social media becomes most important part of children and adolescence’s life from electronic
mails, shopping, business tool, and education. With the help of social media, people transform
their lifestyle. There are so many social blogs and networking sites which include in social media
that is used by adolescence to connect with each other. Nowadays adolescence uses social media
like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others as a key element for journalists, news and latest
information. There is both positive as well as negative impact of social media on adolescence life
which has been examined in the Literature review. Apart from this so many findings have been
analyzed related to the selected topic with the help of literature review and current practices.
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