Muhammad Irfandy Zahari

XI MIPA 4
Social Media
Social media is an online media in which the users can easily participate, share,
and create the content of blog, social networking, and the virtual world. Blog
and social networking is the form of social media that mostly used by the
community around the world.
Social media, with its various features which are provided, certainly brings
positive impacts for the users. On the other hand, social media can also cause
negative impacts if it is not wisely used, especially for children and teenagers.
In this case, it really needs attention from parents and teachers to monitor the
children and teenagers from the negative impact of social media. For the worst,
we have to restrict them to use social media.
There are many negative impacts of social media for children and teenagers.
First, children and teenagers become lazy to communicate in real world. Their
understanding of the language is disturbed. If a child is too much
communicating in the virtual world, then their knowledge about the details of
communicating in real life, like body language and tone of voice, will be
declined.
Second, social networking sites will make children and teenagers more self-
interested. They are not conscious of the environment around them, because
most of their time is spent on the internet. This can cause children to be less
empathetic in the real world.
Third, the assumption that internet is identical with pornography is not wrong.
With its ability of information dissemination owned by the internet,
pornography is rampant. To anticipate it, the producers of browser complete
their program with the ability to choose a home page that can be accessed. On
the internet, there are many images of pornography and violence that can be the
impulse to someone to do criminal acts.
Last, social networking site is fertile land for the predators to commit a crime.
We will never know if someone new whom our children just know on the
internet, uses the real identity or not. Fraud is rampant in every field. The
internet is not excluded from an impostor’s attack. The best ways is not to heed
or confirm any information you get from the information provider.
In conclusion, social media has many negative impacts to children and
teenagers. They have to be restricted in using social media due to many negative
impacts of it. That is not good yet for them since they cannot decide which one
is good or bad.