Social Media's Impact on Adolescents

This assignment delves into the multifaceted influence of social media on adolescents. It explores how social media platforms shape adolescent socialization, communication patterns, and educational experiences. The essay analyzes both the benefits and drawbacks of social media use among young people, considering issues such as online safety, privacy concerns, and the potential for addiction.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA
ENHANCES ADOLESCENT
WELL-BEING

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Sources ..................................................................................................................................1
CRITICAL EVALUATION............................................................................................................1
STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE ..................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Adolescence is the physical and psychological development with the beginning of the
puberty in which the child is transforms into an adult. It is the stage of life of a living person in
which it reaches to the level of its maturity. Nowadays the social networking sites are becoming
popular among the adolescents. These are the social sites that permits the users to make the
online profiles which affects adversely.
Sources and evaluation using social media enhances adolescent well-being
Source 1: Lothar, D., 2012. Social Media Privacy: Myths and Facts. [PDF]. Available
through :< https://journals.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/stanford-technology-law-review/
online/determann-socialmediaprivacy.pdf>. Accessed on: [18th August, 2017].
Introduction The myths about the privacy setting: The myths about the inadequate privacy settings to
protect ones online profile. The new technology has revolutionised young people for
being cheap, fun, convenient, and instant with the use of social sites. There are very less
positive ways the social site might be used and help the children protection. People keep
on posting too much of their personal information which may be annoying to others
(Fuchs, 2017). A lot of people share their personal information now and then which is not
safe for them as it may risk their personal life.
Evaluation
The myths about the privacy settings: The impact of media over the youth is in the form of
adaptation and using media as a model by this they shape their thoughts and beliefs. Like, in
video games there is exposure to violence and aggressiveness and long term exposure to such
games gives the arousal to aggressive thoughts in the mind and make nature rude and hostile.
The studies also shown that such exposures led to antisocial mentality and aggressive tendencies
among the today's youth. Media exposure is also found to be associated with such undesirable
outcomes as negative self-perceptions.
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Source 2: EU, 2017. Risk and Safety on the internet. [PDF]. Available through :<
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media%40lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20II%20(2009-11)/
EUKidsOnlineIIReports/D4FullFindings.pdf>. Accessed on: [18th August, 2017].
Introduction Filtering of the personal information is necessary for the safety of the individual: The
participant's emphasis on selective information one could choose to display online.
Updating the personal numbers and address on the social media sites were described as
unsafe, foolish and dangerous (Mao, 2014). This has an important impact on social as
well as the sexual wellbeing of adolescent. The personal details and information can be
available in the public that can be seen by anyone then they would be face to face
interactions due to the unwanted anonymity.
Evaluation
Filtering of the self-important personal information is necessary for the self-security: As
every advancement comes with its own threat, similarly with the increase in the advancement of
media technology, cyberbullying came out as a one serious problem as a new form of antisocial
attitude. Through this type of online communication many people transformed to come out as a
person who carries out harmful and immoral act similarly on the other hand spending much time
online can also increase the chances of being cyber bullied (Bolton and et.al.,2013). So the
increase use of internet can lead a person being cyber bullied repeatedly. The social media
activities has an adverse impact on the mental as well as health issues of the victim.
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Source 3:
London school of economics and political science. 2016. [PDF]. Available through :<
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/35849/1/Social%20networking%2C%20age%20and%20privacy
%20%28LSERO.pdf>. Accessed on: [18th August, 2017].
 The appropriate age limits for the social media users: There had been a discussion
regarding setting the age limit for the social site use were prominent as allowing the
young teens on social sites would irritate older adolescent in the past years. Participants
were instructed to follow the age limit but they used to fill the wrong data to use the
social sites which lead them to cyberbullying (electronic communication which is used to
bully or to threaten a person (Leonardic and et.al., 2013).
Evaluation
The appropriate age limits for the social media users: Nowadays the internet has changed
everything including the childhood. In this generation the children cannot imagine their life
without internet as it works as fuel to them (Dron and Anderson, 2014). The main negative
aspect of social networking is losing of face to face contact with the other people or friends. It
has been seen through various researches that the people are now feeling comfortable with the
virtual friends than their real ones.
STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE
From the all above sources it can be stated that the appropriate source which can be made
safer for the use of adolescents is The appropriate age limits for the social media users because
as it can be noticed that internet is essential for the youth and the majority thinks that it is easier
to communicate with the virtual friends as they lack in communication skills and feels introvert
to the real ones (Casler and et.al., 2013). To overcome this mentality the parents, teachers, etc
can push their children to face and overcome their loop poles by lessen the use of internet and
making real friends rather than virtual.
CONCLUSION
Today the social media site have become prominent part of culture and helps to define
the youth of latest generation. Even after the enhancement of socialization, communication and
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education many adolescents lived the impact that the social media use has been negative on
balance. The addictive use of social media has led to many health problems as well as the
privacy problems which may have an adverse impact on the personal life of the user.
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REFERENCE
Books and Journals
Bolton and et.al.,2013. Understanding Generation Y and their use of social media: a review and
research agenda. Journal of Service Management.24(3). pp.245-267.
Casler and et.al., 2013. Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via
Amazon’s MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing. Computers in
Human Behavior.29(6).pp.2156-2160.
Dron, J. and Anderson, T., 2014. Teaching crowds: Learning and social media. Athabasca
University Press.
Fuchs, C., 2017. Social media: A critical introduction. Sage.
Leonardic and et.al., 2013. Enterprise social media: Definition, history, and prospects for the
study of social technologies in organizations. Journal of Computer‐Mediated
Communication.19(1). pp.1-19.
Mao, J., 2014. Social media for learning: A mixed methods study on high school students’
technology affordance and perspectives. Computers in Human Behaviour. 33(7). pp.213-
223.
Online
Using social media enhances adolescent well-being. 2017. [online]. Available through:
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21540/pdf>. [Accessed on 14 august
2017].
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