Behavioral Impact

Social media keeps us connected to relatives, family, and friends when they are far away
from us. Social media keeps us updated with current affairs and all those things happen
across the globe.

It is an ideal place for the young generation to express themselves as social media gives
freedom of speech. People feel free to share their feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Social media
also the best place to improve social skills by interacting with new people as youngsters like
to make new friends. The young generation also consider social media a fun place while
interacts with peers.

Source of Educational Help

Social media enables students to keep connected with teachers. Social media also connects
parents to the institutions and it can create trustworthy bond between parents and teachers so
parents can be easily reported about children’s progress.

Social media is a source of getting knowledge about every topic. Detailed descriptions, as
well as videos, are available and students can take help from useful websites in their
academic problems.

Job Opportunities

Behavioral Impact
People of today’s generation make Social media priority. By spending precious time on
useless Social sites makes people lazy. This excessive use of Social media creates unenviable
distance in the family. Parents allow young children to use any social site, which creates
terrible effects on their pre-mature minds and it destroys their personalities before it develops.
Developed countries are complaining of a broken family structure.
Another negative impact is that the young generation gives importance to online games over
sports and physical fitness, this behavioral change affects their health. It is also responsible
for short term memory loss in the young generation.

One dangerous impact is that Social media portrays a virtual side of a person, being young,
one can easily get influenced by those personalities who do not exist physically, social media
user compares himself \herself with virtual personalities, this act is responsible to create
complex in one’s mind sometimes a person does suicidal attempt.

Lacking Privacy
Young generation is unaware about privacy and youngsters mostly don’t take privacy policy
of Social sites seriously. They often share their personal information to any social platform
without realizing that this information can be noticed publically.
It can have dangerous circumstances in the future. Sometimes personal information is read by
insurance companies, advertisers, and other agencies. Criminals can take advantage of the
information that the user shares on social media.

Cyber bullying
Cyberbullying is internationally accepted as a crime but the young generation gets into false
propaganda by exposing themselves to the public forum.

80% of users of Social sites are youngsters; they are easily trapped and bullied by
mischievous minds. Criminal mind people misuse the information shared by random user and
user gets into trauma.

Young people feel shame to share with parents about the trauma they are going through after they
were being bullied. Parents should teach their children that cyberbullying also comes in criminal
activity.

The study finds that the students are facing the problems of Facebook depression, particularly the
male students, as they are fully immersed in it almost all the time. It also reveals that the Facebook
creates a false sense of connection with the people around the world; a lot of the people in the
Facebook roam around with fake ids, which cause innumerable problems. Interestingly, the study
reveals that the closed relationship in the Facebook becomes distant and on the contrary, the
distant relationship in the Facebook becomes closer. More importantly, the study finds that it causes
massive challenges on the socialization process of younger generation and their privacies. However,
it needs to be emphasized that the study finds that the Facebook also brings in positive impacts such
as forming social networks and relationship, sharing and caring the information of others and so on.
In conclusion, it is noted that the usage of Facebook by the younger generation is contingent upon
how they make use of it, either positively or negativel