Influence of Online Social Networks on our Youth

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Venkatesh said:   1 decade ago
Hello Everyone,

My name is Venkatesh, this post is about the Impact of Social Media on Youths Life.

Social Media Plays an Important role in one's youth's life, Social media is one where group or Individuals communicate over an internet. Best example of Social Media is Facebook, It's a vast network where we are connected to our friends, relatives, colleges etc. It helps us to be in touch with our loved ones.

By social media people we get connected to world, we will be having information within a second. It's helping lots of youths to search jobs, share information among others. We even can make a groups and page of like minded people and share the ones thought's etc.

We even can get connected to Mr Narendra Modi, our respected Prime Minister and we can directly share our problems with him. There are so many Politicians, Film Actors whom we can get easily connect through Social Media.

Like Positive points, Social Media has Negative points too. One will waste lots of time spending on Facebook. By recent research it came to know that 10 out of 7 use facebook, it's just a waste of time spending lots of time on Facebook.

Conclusion: It's left to us how we take use of Social Media, it's having both negative and positive points.

Thank You.
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Sanju said:   9 years ago
Nowadays, social media plays an important role on youth. In a positive way, its is used to gain a knowledge and sharing a knowledge and ideas. In a negative way, the spend a lots of time for unwanted chat and they loss their concentration. It will leads to spoil their life. So, its purely based on us.
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Bhanusree said:   9 years ago
Social media is good for gathering information. More people are thinking that it is very bad yes I agree that but problems whichever coming for us is only we are responsible for that we only should what we have to do and what we don't have to do. It only depends on the user. So before using any social media just please ask about it people who already using it.
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Tanvi said:   1 decade ago
Hello, folks.

This is Tanvi here.

Like everyone has said about the merits and demerits of use of social networking, I would also like to put some light on these issues.

Excessive use of social sites being like any other addiction is taking our impulse control. It has become a part of our DNA. The most important impact of it which I found nearby is Teenagers are losing their ability to communicate if not through smartphones. Recent research says that we teenagers are unprepared for the world of work where we will have to actually interact with the people outside our peer group and speak face to face with total strangers. This later results in depression, low self-esteem etc.

Another important affect of social media are it creates disturbances in life when priorities get misplaced and this affects relationships. People start comparing their relationships and partner with the social figures which leads to a drop in romance and development of problems in relationships.

Moreover, one gets influenced by the unrealistic life displayed on social media and thus pressurizes the partner to lead the life as displayed. Even social media makes people more agitated and that too after break-ups; one starts repeatedly checking and rechecking smartphone and reassures if their ex-has moved on if they are happy with the new partner if they are feeling lonely and many other reasons.

People find their online friends the real ones to share their matters rather than with their family.

And this is really very common in youth when their parents ask for some time to talk then they show negligence and avoid it citing the lack of time but on the other hand, they are using these sites on a regular basis. Journals says a billion people uses facebook on a daily basis. And one more reason which comes in the limelight these days is wade in these sites for support is also because of increasing depression in people due to one or more reasons but its excessive use might serve to boost their depression. Because one can't find the real happiness on these outlets where everyone presents a false picture of their lives with flattering selfies, images of holidays, parties etc.

One more point which I would like to add is the excessive use of social media leads to stress, low self-esteem because the lack of shares, likes also makes people feel neglected which affects their brain and health as well.

Bottom line- One needs to learn how to control one's self over the use of social media and introspect one's needs and desires. Also, social media be used in regulated time slots and one should spend quality time with family instead of mindlessly browsing or rather log out when one is upset. Use social media but do not let it take over your life.
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Sambeet said:   10 years ago
Social media has equal number of pros and cons. However I think that the effect of the cons are more dominating the pros. Let me first point out the good effects:

1. It can be used to create and maintain relationships.

2. It reduces distance between the communication.

3. It can be used for advertising products on a commercial level.

4. It can be used to organise events.

5. Finally, It is becoming one of the fastest way to propagate news among youngsters since 70% to 80% of the netizens are youths.

Now, lets take a look at the darker side:

1. Although social media can be used to build up relationships, the internet is an infinite ocean where anyone with good experience can leak out personal and private information. Your security is always at risk.

2. Even though social media was introduced to make communication more convenient, people today have reached a point where they've literally stopped communication the conventional way. Also, there has been tremendous rise in the usage of internet slang and people are slowly losing their knowledge on the English language.

3. We see a lot of products advertised on the internet. However, statistics suggest that for most of these companies that advertise, the income they get through online trajectory is way too less compared to other means. So online advertisements are not much of an effect.

4. The social media has almost replaced TVs as the primary source of entertainment. And major share goes to the memes created and posted in the social media. These memes depict in a way the current scenarios or may be something related to daily happenings and they depict them in a sarcastic way. When such things are conveyed in a sarcastic I tone, it surely affects our level of understanding of the issue.

5. This is the most negative impact of social medias on youth. We all are addicted. And it is increasingly becoming serious. We stay online most of the times literally doing nothing. It greatly affects our productivity.
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Ajay yadav said:   6 years ago
Hello everyone, This is Ajay Kumar.

Today my topic is the influence of online social networks on our youth.

In my point of view in recent days, social media affects a lot in youth. Like a coin has two faces it also has two aspects that is pros and cons. First I want to talk about pros:-.

By using social media we get to know about information across the world.

It also helps to connect to the people across the world.

It also helps to increase the speed rate of business trade.

By this we also able to study online at home.

Cons:-.

Nowadays cyber crimes increasing day by day.

By using social media it distracts the path of youth in many ways.

It is also a time-consuming thing that many peoples stuck in social media throughout the day.

So, at last, I want to say that it totally depends on us how we use it. So, be alert while using social media.

Thank you.
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Jayasri said:   5 years ago
Hi friends, my name is Jayasri.

Today we have got the topic impact of social media on the life of youth.

Like a coin has two faces, every topic has pros and cons. Social media helps us to know what is happening around world. Youth can use online platforms like Byjus, udemy to enhance their skills instead of browsing on Facebook or any online platforms and wasting their time.
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Bhavani said:   9 years ago
Social media is a good platform where we can easily communicate with the people today there are lot of social medias like Whatapp, facebook, twitter etc.

Most of the people are busy with their work in this competitive world so they have no time to read newspapers and listen to the radio so by doing their work and also at the same time they easily get to know what is going on in this world. Here one can share and exchange the knowledge but nowadays youth are spending a lot of in chatting so one must have a presence of mind to use in a right manner.
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MAD said:   9 years ago
In today's world, where everything is just one click away. Social networking sites have become the need of the present world.

Social networking sites and social media has revolutionized the world, bringing us closer than ever before and making life easier. They are very much useful not only to the youths but to all generations.

However, every coin has two sides and addiction to anything is always bad. Being on social networking site means one should be social but we are social more on networking sites and are keeping our self\'s away from social life.

These networking sites are changing the mindsets of the youths, people are living in the virtual world and trying to present a virtual picture of their life and updating on social sites. We are not enjoying our real life but trying to pretend our virtual world to be perfect. We are publishing our personal life for a few minutes of attention among few people in the virtual world.

Too much use of social networking sites is making individuals dumb. Thus, today's youth are engaged in cyber crimes. In the end, I would like to say social networking is a medium through which we can learn things broadcast our knowledge, experience, and views. We can either misuse this or use it for a better life. All depends upon us and the choice is ours.
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Pragya malviya said:   5 years ago
Hi guys,

This is Pragya,

The impact of media: social networks on youth is one of the most important topics because in the event of an epidemic, many people spend time in media and it is very negative for our health, but on the other hand it is also positive.

So let us discuss their pros and cons.

First, we discuss the pros -.

1. It helps a lot to know the state of the world.
2. It helps us to be a more creative and knowledgeable people.
3. We can learn and study more things from this media and social networking platform.

Another aspect is opposition. So let's discuss that point -.

1. In our daily life, we are all addicted to this social media and networks.

2. It affects our health like our eyesight is not good, our mental state is not good like most of the youth are depressed.

3. And the last is the most important, it takes a lot of time.
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