Teenagers are Highly Affected by Social Media
Social Media can affect and influence the youth of our dear teenagers. We all can relate to this of how technology keeps on evolving each year or even months. Social Media also focuses on teens and will control them time to time. Social media, WhatsApp and Facebook, are largely used to be in touch with friends and family members and to send messages, but its indiscriminate use by teens is resulting in child marriages and will used them for that. According to the officials of the Women and Child Welfare department, rampant use of social media by teenagers is resulting in child marriages and there are a few such examples in the district. (Ranjith Kandya (May 08, 2019).
There are postive and negative impacts of social media today. Social media nowadays can force teens to do online marriage and can result to bad intentions and bad behaviors, that can lead our teenagers to traumatize and will lose there teenage life. Early marriage is a worldwide problem associated with a range of health and social consequences for teenage girls. Designing effective health interventions for managing early marriage needs to apply the community-based approaches. Today, there are estimated 580 million teenage girls in the world of whom 88 percent live in the developing countries [3]. While the age of marriage is rising for both sexes, early marriage has still remained a problem in these societies (Journal of Environmental and Public Health.2016)
As cited by Jeanille Cogtas (2015),Brody (2006)American teenagers have been observed to have no trouble accessing graphic sexual presentations and they are not even restricted from hearing inappropriate words and thoughts from popular songs despite the high-end technology named V-chips used for movie rating and televised warnings of appropriateness for young people. Education now becomes a minute thing compared to the gigantic influx of graphic messages that portray sexual activity particularly those that talk about or even portray unprotected sex outside of marriage. They come in handy just like eating Big Mac or drinking Coke.
Adolescent sexuality towards social media that can damage the teens mental health and can also damage the choices in there lives. Although sexual content in the media can affect any age group, adolescents may be particularly vulnerable. Adolescents may be exposed to sexual content in the media during a developmental period when gender roles, sexual attitudes, and sexual behaviors are being shaped. West J Med (2000).
How does social media affect Teenagers now. Social Media now keeps on dragging teens to adult content, According to a report released in 2021 by Common Sense Media on social media’s effects on teens, about half of the 1,500 young people surveyed said social media is very important for them in order to get support and advice, feel less alone, and express themselves creatively, as well as for staying in touch friends and family while social distancing. And 43 percent said that using social media makes them feel better when they are depressed, stressed, Newport Academy (july 14 2021).
Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood. teenagers always and will be addicted to it and also with temptation and might do wrong things. Social media wants teenagers to be drag into this to ruin there life, and a lot of them are affected and also interested in it. Wen-Hsu Lin, Chia-Hua Liu (april 10 2020)
Teens and social media is a helpful combination, but there are other social medias that can also be our limit. to prevent this kinds of addiction we should preventing to go to adult links and site, and not to trust click baits so that we wont be affected by the influence of the other side of social media.Social media is a big part of many teens' lives. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 750 13- to 17-year-olds found that 45% are online almost constantly and 97% use a social media platform, such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat.
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