INTRODUCTION
Online social media have gained amazing growth around the world and its popularity has led to attract the attention of many researchers worldwide. Although eventually all generations have come to embrace the changes in the social network has caused, adolescents and young adults are most fanatical users of these sites. According to various research studies in the field of online social networking, has revealed that these sites are impacting the lives of young people greatly. By using these sites as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, there are both positive and negative effects on youth.
POSITIVE IMPACTS
It is inevitable to overlook the fact that today the social network plays an essential role in the lives of adolescents. Most young people are spending at least an hour in these popular social media sites. Overall, 1 in 7 minutes are spent online by most that can access the internet is spent on Facebook as Shea Bennett. One may wonder how to spend all that time on social media sites can have a positive impact on them. Well, the media helps youth and other user-date with what is happening worldwide, help teens stay connected and interact with each other even if they are many miles away. This strengthens your relationship even finished school and moved to other places to stay connected and updated each other. Additionally, social media sites have provided a platform through which young people can create groups and pages based on their common discipline and finish building connections and opportunities for their careers by updating discuss various subjects. Young people who have been interviewed say that social networking has become their lifestyle and makes life easier and more efficient.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS
While in social networking sites, first seems to bring people together and connected on the other hand social isolation in relation to the BBC News report is created. As young people tend to spend many hours on these sites, rarely have face to face interaction. Various studies evaluating scientists determined that social isolation can lead to a number of emotional, psychological, physical and mental problems including anxiety, depression and somatic complaints among many others. Other negative effects of social networks including several people suggested encouraging bad spelling and grammar, the exposure of minors to online predators, allowing the spread of misinformation that is perceived as fact, decreasing productivity as those who are supposed to be working to spend time in chat sites, providing a perfect platform for cyber bullying and all the details that increase the risk of identity theft.
CONCLUSION
Social networks clearly portrays both the positive and negative effects on young people. It is the decision of an individual to do if you want to continue using the site or not.
