Name : Adelya Shalsa Putri
Class: XII Social 1
Room : 12
Do you think Social Media is good for young people?
Social media has given young people the ability to instantly connect with others and share their lives through photos, videos or status updates. Young people describe these platforms as a key tool for connecting and maintaining relationships, being creative, and learning more about the world.
Social media can connect young people to online global communities based on shared interests. These might be support networks (for example), for young people with disability or medical conditions, LGBTQI teenagers, or children from particular cultural backgrounds. Or they might be sites for commenting on and sharing content about particular interests like games, TV series, music or hobbies.
Young people use social media to have fun, make and maintain friendships, share interests, explore identities and develop relationships with family. It’s an extension of their offline and face-to-face interactions. For older teenagers especially, it’s often a key part of how they connect with friends on school.
That are also have a negative effects of social media on young people is anxiety, we are more curious about knowing what other people are doing rather than spending time for ourselves. Those who spend more time on social media become victims of depression and anxiety because it adversely affects the thought processes and mood and then so many cyberbullying, a cyberbullying is the use of social media to communicate false, embarrassing, or hostile information to specific users. Among the major effects of social media, cyberbullying is an evil that has become such an atypical today. Victims of prolonged cyber-bullying often end up with psychosocial problems like depression, isolation, loneliness, stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and some even become suicidal.
