Social Media has a Lot of Positive Sides

Today if you create a product or have an idea, you can sell that product, or share that idea with a substantial audience quickly and cost-effectively through these platforms.

Sherpa Marketing found that more people follow brands on social media than follow celebrities. On Instagram alone 80 percent of people follow at least one business. 

If you’re not taking advantage of social, you’re missing out on a fast, inexpensive, and effective way to reach almost half the world’s population.

Fourth, social media can be a source of entertainment. Chatting with friends, video calls and video games can be entertaining.

It helps in changing your mood sometimes.

Watching motivational videos can make teenagers feel more confident by changing their lifestyles, their way of thinking and their habits.

On the other hand, it’s true that social media has a lot of positive sides but it also has its negative ones. Others believe social media has had a negative impact on their self-esteem: 26% of teens say these sites make them feel worse about their own life. 

First of all, social media can be the main reason behind anxiety.

Spending the whole day on social media can affect the teenager’s mental health. Instead of working on themselves, they compare others lifestyles and become victims of this unreal world. The world of social media is full of fake posts, unreal perfection and unbelievable shining pictures. All of these facts can cause anxiety for social media users and create that “hate” towards their selves. Linda Charmaraman, a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women and director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, has also found that 21% of teens 'felt down' about themselves after looking at social media. 

Second, cyber bullying is one of the most dangerous issues caused by social media.

Teenagers are being cyber bullied on their posts.

This problem is a major one and often leads to psychological diseases like, depression, loneliness, stress, anxiety and even some of these victims become suicidal.

Results from a separate study from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine showed that the more time young adults spent on social media, the more likely they were to have problems sleeping and report symptoms of depression. 

It’s very important to know how to deal with such problems; especially from the parent’s side.

Parents have to be so conscious and make deep conversations with their children;

Plus, they should give them the best advice...

Third, social isolation can also be caused by social media. Teenagers that communicate with others on these platforms, makes them less isolated. But in fact when a person spends his whole day in front of the screen, he will be missing what is happening around in real life and that’s real isolation.

In the end, social media has a lot of benefits and disadvantages. And it has a great impact on teenagers especially. Some of them will know how to keep everything under control and the rest will let social media control them.

So everyone should be aware of how to make social media a source of benefits and never let it destroy his inner or his mental health.

If we know the limit we will be safe; because when we believe everything we see on this screen, we will be living a big lie called perfection that never exists.

“Beware of your kid's screen consumption time - it's a matter of life and death - of psychological life and psychological death. Raise them in a way that they do not lose their sense of community in the fake crowd of hashtags and emoji’s.” 

To make sure that we’re not in danger we should always remember that people created social media for their good and not the opposite.

So, on which side you want to stand? The real one or the unreal?

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