Abstract This study aimed to identify the nature of social relations through these sites, and to detect the positive and negative effects of social media on teenager’s life resulting from the use of these sites. To achieve these objectives, the study relied on the social survey methodology and used the questionnaire to collect data. The study reached a number of results, the most important of which are social media does have an important effect on teenagers whether in communication , education or other. Keywords : Social media , Teenagers , Society ,Internet, Effects Introduction Social media is a rich source of information and knowledge. It is a stimulating and entertaining educational tool for children.
Children and teenagers embraced the internet and social networking technology since the first time it appeared in their lives. During this period, social media was and have always been one of their first priorities and a significant aspect of their daily routine. Most adolescents prefer to spend their whole day connected to a social network site rather than communicating with their surrounds; they could get access to a number of social media’s accounts at the same moment without mixing up between them. As one might expect, this technology offers opportunities for young adults; it keeps them in touch with the wider world just by using a small electronic device. As with many other innovative technologies, social networking has it owns impacts on the teenagers; it could affect them whether in a positive or a negative way.
In addition, social media can be operated as a voice of reason in the public arena. Different informal communication locales, for example, Facebook and Twitter are being used by the adolescent to make a voice for the voiceless the substance of treating everybody similarly. Seventhly, social media has empowered more youngsters to be imaginative and inventive and for the most part rely upon dynamic interest and sharing of various substance. This makes it so youngsters conceive brand new ideas and concoct new substance when sharing information. Lastly, social media has
Introduction This research proposal is a study investigating whether the ‘selfie’ culture on social media is a main concern that leads to the rise in narcissism behaviour among Singapore young adults. In this IT-savy society, the word ‘selfie’ are a ever-present phenomenon in almost every young adults. Oxford English Dictionary defined ‘Selfie’ as a self-photography of ourselves, usually using digital devices such as smartphone and be shared to social media. The act of taking ‘selfie’ and sharing to various social media has become a part of life among young adults nowadays. Young adult, aged 18 to 33, are very connected with technology.
Social networking describes the phenomena found in, participatory and self-expressive websites such as Facebook, Twitter, My space, and Youtube. Social media is becoming an ubiquitous in today’s society and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using some sites to access in a public life. Social media 1 Negative effects of social media on education A lot of students are using some sites that can distract them from their doings especially on their studies. Yes, social media gives everything what a person will need. Social media is a great way to have a person communicating with another person but we also do know that it could give us a big impact that could be problem to our studies.
Seventy-one percent of adolescents, between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, have some sort of social media account (Pew Research Center). Eighty-eight percent of adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are also connected to social media in some way (Pew Research Center). Some believe that parents are entitled to be a part of what their teens post and see on their social media accounts feeds. Adolescents are entitled to their own personal privacy when it comes to social media. Privacy provides teens an independent voice in society, gives them a chance to be productive and innovative with their own personal ideas, and aids them in learning social skills imperative to real world situations, on their own.
Social networks can be defined as any form of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content such as videos. (Webster online dictionary).This makes social networking tools more dynamic compared to the learning management system. Most of the students in this century is using technology throughout their day whether to stay in touch with their family members and friends, listen to music and watch videos or read the latest updates within their circle of friends or news. As communication have been such a success using social media, learning also has taken a drastic shift from the traditional paradigm with the infusion of social media into online learning. According to Friedman and
Based on a research, high school students are more opened to share their opinion on social media such as WhatsApp’s group class than responding in the class. This way can slowly help and train students to be braved speaking and throwing their opinion in a right way in the future. Hence, technology helps a lot in nowadays
For example, learn English by utilizing the call or video call facility provided on social networking sites. Social media is also a learning media that is very useful for students with this students can learn lessons that they do not understand because in social media there is a video tutor learning that is easily accessed whenever they want. Social media is also used as income field.Dengan develop self creativity, especially among adolescents. Like making video content on youtube about beauty tips, sports, healthy lifestyle and which is now a trend is a daily personal vlog or video game play. From the video content they create, it will get a lot of audience and that's where they get money from the result of their
Moreover, The Pew Research Center, which frequently conducts surveys on use of technology in United States, states that approximately 92% of teens in the United States report going on the social media daily (Lenhart). Keeping these information in mind, news about problems caused by social media and teenagers occurs in the media regularly. Therefore, people think SNS as a harmful and destructive thing. However, the internet and social media provide young people lots of benefits and as a result social media can help teens in terms of connectivity, knowledge, and education. One main reason students should use social media is that it can provide them connectivity.