Media and Its Impact on Teenagers

Media has had quite a deep impact on teenagers. This impact has both good and bad side. Social
media and networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become source of major distractions
for students. Young boys and girls seem to have become inordinately addicted to these sites. They
are thoughtlessly and uselessly wasting their precious time on these sites. Wise people say time well
utilized is time well spent, but the youth of today is only and only wasting time on chatting,
messaging, uploading photographs and modifying profiles. The smart phones and 4G connections
have made the situation worse. Accessing such sites has become so easy that young boys and girls
are using these sites almost everywhere and almost all the time. Similarly they wait for their
favourite TV programs with such intense longing!

Students these days appear to be more worried about connecting to their friends on Facebook than
being concerned about doing their studies, assignments and projects! The other major disadvantage
of the increasing use of such networking sites is the spread of obscenity. This is having a very
negative impact on the impressionable minds of our young children and leading them astray.

On the other hand, social networking and the facilities of media exchange formats facilitated by
advancement in internet has made the life and work of so easy for everyone. Everything is available
on social networking sites and platforms. There is not a single sphere or walk of life where social
networking and media are not being used! Education, industry, finance, defense, teaching, learning,
research, medicine, accounting, entertainment, internet, online teaching, telecommunication,
media, and space research and exploration. It is internet and computer everywhere.

In conclusion, it can be said that media is neither good nor bad, we have to teach our teenagers how
to use it judiciously for the betterment of the self

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