Journal Writing 2 (First Draft) Chhun VenYuory

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Topic: Social media effects on young people (Cause/Effect Essay)

The number of people using social media is increasing dramatically across the world.

According to studies, teenagers and young adults are the most activist users of social network.

Social network plays an essential role on young adults’ lives. CNN’s report shows that today,

teenagers spend 9 hours a day using the social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube,

Instagram. These sites have enormous impacts on teenagers. Using social network, young people

receive both positive and negative effects.

Social media has varieties of positive effects on young people’s lives. Education is

one of the most significant benefits for teenagers when it comes to using social network. Social

media sites provide a platform where young people can create groups and share things that relate

to their studies. On the other hand, teachers find it convenient to collaborate and communicate

with students. Furthermore, social media is site where young adults are able to get ultimate

information about study programs, scholarship opportunities, study tips or strategies. For

instance, On Facebook, there are many pages offering fruitful knowledge related to tips to win

scholarship, scholarship opportunities from across the world. The information itself is accessible

and advanced.

Additionally, young people start recognizing things happening from locally to

globally by social media. Millions of young adults visit the social media sites every single day,

so they are aware of what is happening to the world. Young adults rarely read newspaper, watch

TV, listen to the radios or visit news websites; in contrast, they visit social media sites. Most of

the news is reported and posted daily on social media. News on social network spreads faster

than other media; as a consequence, young people are likely to be informed about what is going
on around them. Perceiving different types of news, young people are well-informed and

conscious about any issue.

Having positive effects, social media also brings out many negative effects on young adults’

lives. Social media tends to bring people together through the sites; however, it creates social

isolation instead. Spending too much time on social network, youths barely have face-to-face

interaction. Young adults will face losing communication with people around them, for instance,

friends and families. Communication builds closeness in relationship, so lacking of

communication, youths will suffer from solitude. Furthermore, social isolation can lead to severe

mental and psychological problems such as anxiety, depression or isolation. Youths even use

social media during meal time or when they spend time with their friends or families. Social

media obviously gets young adults to stay away from the relationships with friends and families.

Other negative effect of social networking on young people is distraction. Most

youths have to go to school or have to work. As they contribute too much time on social media,

they start losing track of their priorities. Most young people can easily get distracted by social

media while they are doing their works. Young people tend to procrastinate and wait until the

last minute to do the assigned works because of social media. For example, while a student was

doing a research for assignment, her friend chatted to her. They had quite a long conversation;

the student forgot about the assignment and kept checking the social media sites. According to

the example, social network is such disturbance that keeps young people away from what they

are doing.