Do you think social media is good for teenagers?
Nowadays, social media is widely used by people from all age, from kids, teenagers, even elderly people use social media now. Social media itself is a technology that allow the user to share or exchange information, share ideas, and other virtual expression easily by the internet. It is now becoming a platform where teenagers can meet and socialized with people worldwide.
Social media has a lot of positive impact, it helps teens find the right way to express themselves, get more friends even from different country, improving social skills, increasing creativity and self-confidence. Social media also helps teens in finding their true self, sometimes, too many teenagers feels scared to express themselves, but because of social media they are finally have the courage to show their talent via social media like Instagram, youtube, and any other platform.
Despite all the good, social media also has tons of negative impact, such as increasing anxiety, cyberbullying, and it is so easy for teens to imitate bad influence for influencer without filtering it for good. Social media also can cause addiction that make teen end up becoming antisocial and more aloof from the outside environment. In addition, there are also a lot of teenagers that started to comparing theirselves to other people “perfect side” on social media that make them questioning their self-worth and feels like they are not good enough. Also, some mean people usually share negatives comment on others content that usually harm the creator feeling.
At the end, social media has its own negative and positive sides. It offers a lot of advantages for those people who uses it right, that’s why as a teenagers, we have to take the right way on dealing with social media. We have to focus on the benefit of the social media and we have to be wise enough to be able to prevemt ourselves from the negativity of the social media itself.
