English investigatory project

TOPIC – SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECT ON

TEENAGERS
Session – 2022-23

GUIDED BY PRESENTED BY
Ms. Shraboni Pragyesh Patel
Chatterjee Mohit Rai
Nishant Ramareddy
PV Hemanth Kumar
Krishna Singh
 Index

1.Statement of Purpose
2.Topic
3.Acknowledgement
4.Certificate
5.Action Plan
6.Evidences
7.Group Reflection
8.Report
9.Learning Experiences
10.Bibliography
11.Thank You
•What goes on in the minds of teenagers when they engage with
social media, seemingly lost in their screens? It’s a question we as
individuals often ponder as we fret about the effects of social
media on the youth well-being.
•As social media use has expanded and evolved, concerns about its
role in the youth lives have grown as well. Linking social media
use to technology addiction, the decay of in-person social skills,
and multiple harms to the youth mental well-being make for good
headlines but may obscure and confuse the actual role of social
media in the youth lives. This report is designed in part to help
shed light on some of those concerns. As technology becomes
more accessible, are youth preferences changing from face-to-
face communication to online interactions? To what degree are
the youth occupied by social pressures regarding how they
present themselves online and how they compare to others? How
widespread is cyberbullying, and how the youth is coping with it?
Is social media contributing to or helping to alleviate depression
and loneliness among adolescents, and how has this changed, if at
all, over the past years?
•The Project examines a Study on Social Media And Its Impact On
Youth. It talks about the Positive and Negative Impacts of Social
Media and the Way Forward to protect the youth in this Digital
Age.
•Many of the insights in the report are likely to challenge our
notions of whether social media is “good” or “bad” for youth.
Because youth involvement with social media is something many
of us have personal experience with, it can be difficult to step
back and take an objective look at what is happening in the
world as a whole. Our own immersion in this world can easily
affect our ability to observe and understand social media’s
broader role in society and in the lives of youth.
Social media
effect on
teenagers
We sincerely thank our Principal Dr. Shruti
Gupta and English teacher Ms. Shraboni
Chatterjee for their guidance,
encouragement and support throughout
the duration of the project. Without their
motivation and help the successful
completion of this project would not have
been possible.

Then we would thank our parents who have

helped us with their suggestions in various
phases of the project.
This is to certify that Pragyesh Patel, Mohit
Rai, Nishant Ramareddy, PV Hemanth
Kumar, Krishna Singh student of class XII
Science have successfully completed the
below mentioned project under the
guidance of Ms. Shraboni Chatterjee, during
the year 2022-23 conducted by AISSCE

Signature of Signature of
Teacher Principal
•Social Media has reduced the world into a global village where
people can interact with each other just by a click of a button.
Technology's ability of widespread instantaneous connection has
led to its usage in social media and its use is among the most
common activities of today's youth which has a paramount
impact on them. These sites offer today's youth a medium for
entertainment and communication but the problem with the
excess usage of social media is that today's youth is tomorrow's
future and we ought to be using the Internet to build ourselves, to
be well equipped with the skills and the knowledge required to
build a utopia for all but instead we are using it to destroy
ourselves and each other.
•The following steps will be followed to complete the study:
1.Reviewing Websites, Blogs, Essays, Articles, Research Papers
and YouTube Videos related to the topic.
2.Writing the report based on the review. The report will cover
subheadings like Introduction, Manipulation of Users by Tech
Companies to Spend More Time On Their Devices, Effects Of
Social Media On Social-Emotional Well Being, How Social Media
Effects Stress?, The Dark Side Of Social Media, Positive Effects
Of Engaging In Social Media, Conclusion.
 Evidences
https://drive.google.com/file/d/
1n7arvypSJ1n8REldyzMROMfhFBqHMdu8/view
 Glimpses of research work

•Introduction
•Social Media is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. It is an
interactive technology that facilitate the creation and sharing of information,
ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities
and networks. The fast development of technology has brought about many
advantages of living in a connected world yet we feel that our relationships are
not meaningful which metaphorically means that we are suffering from social
isolation. Digital connections may offer us the illusion of companionship
without the demands of friendship and hence we would rather text than talk.
•Manipulation of Users by Tech Companies to Spend
More Time On Their Devices
•All the social media apps have a very carefully tailored algorithms which
ensure that we are hooked to our phones. They are made to be as addictive as
possible. To be humans means that you are persuadable in every single
moment.
•Engagement with social media and our cell phones releases a chemical called
dopamine. It is the exact same chemical that gives us instant gratification (i.e..
makes us feel good) when we smoke, when we drink and when we gamble.
Those little tidbits of time when the youth think they have free time and using
their phones, they can actually add up to a pretty big number. A big chunk of
our day is spent on our phones. Our generation (a bunch of smart, talented,
self aware, hardworking, motivated individuals) are
•constantly falling prey to these social media apps. If we continually
prioritize the social media apps over our long- term goals which
require patience, consistence, discipline and actual effort, what
arises is procrastination which is fueled by the fact that we are
addicted to our devices.
•Effects Of Social Media On Social-Emotional Well
Being (Concept of ‘Filters’, ‘Highlight Reel’ and
‘Social Currency’) – The expectation of Fame and
the Importance of Being Liked
•Social media is great at providing that one thing that we all love
‘filters’. We filter our very life before projecting it to the world, we
show the happiest, the best versions of ourselves, sometimes fake
versions of ourselves out on social media. People look like that they
have a much better life than they really do. Some of the happiest
seeming people are actually some of the saddest people in reality.
Every youth today on social media has a highlight reel which is the
collection of his/her best and brightest moments. Social media is our
own personal highlight reel which is the cause of most teenagers
insecurities today. We are comparing our struggles and behind the
scenes to other people highlight reel.
•The youth of today is vulnerable to social approval and use others as a
mirror or benchmark for how they should look, how successful they
should be, or how they should live. On Social media the likes, the
comments, the shares has become the form of social currency for
which we ourselves are the product. We are tying up our self worth
with what others think of us.
How Social Media Effects Stress?
The entire generation of today don’t have the coping
mechanism to deal with stress. So, when significant
stress starts to show up in their lives, the youth of
today lacking the skillset to ask for help, they are not
turning to a person, they are turning to social media
which offers them temporary relief and when they
don’t have access to it or their phones, this stress
very quickly turns into a social anxiety that causes
rational withdrawal symptoms.
•The Dark Side Of Social Media
•Technology’s ability of widespread instantaneous
connection has opened the doorway to
cyberbullying and negative exposure of all kinds
leading to anxiety, addiction, violence, child
pornography, depression and even suicide. In
addition to this the negatives of Social Media
include:
 A Detriment to Work and/or School
 Lack of Privacy
 Users Vulnerable to Crime
 Spread of Misinformation / Fake News etc.
•Social Media is a boon if it is used for the right
purpose. It is very rightly said, Don't be an
audience to the world, Be a creator. Thus, Social
Media as a platform should be used to create
and to express
•ourselves and our talents. It
depends on us how we use it and
the moment we start valuing
ourselves, the world starts valuing
us.
• According to the Teen Social
Media Statistics 2022, below
are some interesting statistics
regarding teenagers and their
technology and social media
usage.
• 85% of Americans own a
smartphone (Source: Pew
Research) & 95% of
American teens have daily
access to a smartphone.
• 46% of teens report being
online almost constantly
(Source: Pew Research)
• TikTok had a total of 78.7
million users in the United
States as of 2021. (Apps like
this leads to short attention
span of the youth which may
be a sign of an attention
disorder or mental health
condition
• An average of 5+ billion snaps
are created every day.
 Teens’ preference for
A Study shows that
face-to-face
an average person communication with
now spends more friends has declined
time each day on substantially, and
their phone and their perception of
computer than they social media’s
do sleeping. interference with
personal
interactions has
increased.
•Positive Effects Of Engaging In Social
Media
•It’s well said that Positive anything is better than
negative nothing so apart from it’s negative impacts
Social Media is quite beneficial and has a lot of positive
impact on youth. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and
Twitter give teens and young adults a sense of belonging
and acceptance and connect people and loved ones who
feel isolated and marginalized. It’s all round effect was
clear during the pandemic. Social media inspires young
people to develop new and healthy habits by finding
positive role models online. Social media has allowed
teens to develop a voice of advocacy. This can be a very
positive influence when exposed to the right outlets. A
study has shown that young people who express their
opinions on social media experience increased well-
being. It is a gateway to talent as it provides students
with a platform to share their creativity and ideas and
get an honest response from the audience so that they
can better shape their skills. Social media can be a
vehicle for making an impact in the community. It
exposes them to essential issues not only in their
community but all over the world as well.
•According to the Social Media, Social Life: Teens
reveal their experiences (2018) survey –

Among 13- to 17-year-old social media users, percent

who say using social media makes them feel:

• Teens are much more likely

to say social media has a
positive rather than a
negative effect on how
they feel.
• Social media is an important
avenue of creative expression
for many teens - More than
one in four teens (27 percent)
say social media is
“extremely” or “very”
important to them for
expressing themselves
creatively.
•CONCLUSION
•The effects of digital technology on youth is important
because these effects will color their adult behavior
and the way future societies will behave.
•Values are the very foundation of our beliefs. These
values can direct us to deal
•with the problems mentioned above as well as guide us
to decide exactly how and what to use our social media
for. We should be ourselves as the very fact that nobody
is us makes us perfect. A dedicated social media policy,
safeguards for inappropriate behavior online, parental
control, limits to screen time, constant communication
with kids, promotion of outdoor activities etc. can be a
way forward to protect the youth in this digital age.
Group Reflection

Krishna Singh
As a student I have worked in many
group projects assigned by the school,
but this project was something different
and I have experienced so many new
things and also, the topic was very
interesting. I was fortunate enough to
have experienced many different sides of
project.
 Nishant Ramareddy
All the members did their best in providing
content for the project and helped each other in
every other way possible. This project enhanced
our communication skills, thinking ability, group
coordination and many other social skills. I would
like to thank our all members who worked
together in this group and helped each other to
make it work and for providing me such a
marvelous experience.
 Pragyesh Patel
My experience of this group project as an
individual has been very sustaining and
gratifying as I experienced group coordination
and patience while you work together. With
this project we tried our best to bring out
various aspects of Social Media Effect on
Teenagers .
 Mohit Rai

It was a great opportunity and a very

innovative learning and exploring
experience to work with cooperating group.
This subject and all the activities related to
this are my personal favorite. I am also
thank full to my school for giving us such an
amazing project. I enjoyed doing this
project a lot.
 PV Hemanth Kumar
I was overwhelmed by working on this
project and when it comes to subject like
English, I am an enthusiast person. I come
in the category of extroverts and I enjoy
being an extrovert, it always helps me to
meet new good people. I am also thanking
my teammates who coordinated and
supported me throughout the project. I am
also thank full to my school for giving us
such an amazing project. I enjoyed doing
this project a lot.
• This report covers the topic “Effect Of Social Media
On Teenagers" which we took for our school's
English project of Term-2. Firstly, we worked
together as a group by discussing and gathering
relevant information related to our topic. Then we
decided to take interview and know the opinion of
other more knowledgeable person on this topic.
Finally we decided to take the interview of 3
knowledgeable person
• Rakesh Uncle
Rakesh uncle lives near the nishant’s house who has
a good general knowledge.
• Gulshan Chandra

Gulshan Chandra is a senior Mathematics

faculty at Premier Academy who gave his
opinion on the issue of effect of social media
on teens.
• Abhishek Verma

Abhishek Verma is the senior

economics teacher who gave us his
valuable advice and a solution to teens
on how to use social media and an
suggestion to all the social media
platforms.
• After hearing all opinions we get to
know that social media has some cons
and pros, teens should use the social
media in a limit, and the teens should
not skip the physical activity due to
social media.
Learning Experiences
Learning Experiences
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
• YouTube Videos :-
https://youtu.be/soHn6t_jjIw

https://youtu.be/vMc816GiT48

https://youtu.be/fhwlHTXteJY

https://youtu.be/e2Tq2gvGt80

•Websites, Blogs, Essays, Articles and

Research Papers :-

https://smartsocial.com/post/social-media-statistics

https://turbofuture.com/internet/effects-of-social-media-on-our-
youth

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/05/31/teens-social-media-
technology-2018/

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/uploads/research/2
018_cs_socialmediasociallife_executivesummary-final- release_3_lowres.pdf