The Impact of social media to the Youth Nowadays

I am going to detail on a topic that is related to almost all of us. I am going to express my views
on ‘Media Addiction and Its Impact’. ‘Social media and networking sites such as Facebook , Instagram,
YouTube, Twitter, etc. have become source of major distractions for students. Young boys and girls
seem to have become in excessively addicted to these sites. They are thoughtlessly and uselessly
spending their 3time 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 favorite TV programs with such intense longing! The following questions need to be answered:
‘Where will this lead to? Are we heading towards only Facebook and Twitter perfection? Where are the
objectives of attaining the status of an advanced country?’

There are so many challenges that we as a nation face. Challenges, such as population, poverty,
unemployment, corruption, pollution, mismanagement of our natural resources, etc. Is it not a pathetic
attitude of our youth to lose such objectives out of sight and instead waste their time, money and
energy on such social networking sites so recklessly? Will Facebooking, Whatsapping, Twittering,
Instagraming, Youtubing, etc. solve our national problems?

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 abusing or body shaming.
This is having a very negative impact on the impressionable minds of our young children and leading
them astray. Sitting in front of the screen for long hours also affects their health adversely in many ways.

The parents, teachers and the government must look into the problems being caused by these
networking sites and must formulate a strategy to completely stop its fast-growing negative influence
on the minds of our youth. Our youth is the future of our nation. We cannot allow this youth to waste
their precious time in doing the Facebook. The same time must be spent on studying, researching, and
developing leadership or other life-skills. It is our moral duty as well as responsibility to lead our youth
on the right path. Efforts should be made in making our youth, especially the school students, aware of
the disadvantages of such social networking sites. The concerned government authorities should make
and implement some strict regulatory checks on the functioning of such networking sites in our country.
Only with concerted efforts of parents, teachers and the government, this problem of addiction of our
youth to networking sites can be removed.