Impact of Social Media on Youth

Abstract

Social Networking sites offer a large platform for discussion on burning problems that has been unnoted in today’s emerging world. Usage of social networking is among the most common activities of today’s children and adolescent. These sites offer today’s youth a medium for entertainment and communication, and these have grown expendably. Parents and teachers become unaware of the nature of mixer media sites, thus they do not know that not all of them are healthy environments for their children. The study is conducted to test the impact of social networking sites within the youths and various problems associated with it. This is often a survey sort analysis and here the information is collected through tests. The tests are related to favor kind of social media for youth to see the perspective of youth towards social networking sites. Negative use of social media is deteriorating the connection among the countries, how adversely and positively is the youth affected by the employment of these websites but also will help the youth to understand the effective utilization of these networks. The paper also emphasizes the users on various sites like Facebook, Twitter. This aim of this paper is to analyze the growing issues on youth due to the constant use of Social Network.

Keywords: Social Networking; Facebook; Twitter; Social Media; Youth