Studies on the Effects of Social Media on Teens

The Effects of Social Media on Teens
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The Effects of Social Media on Teens
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Wood, Bukowski, and Lis wanted to enlighten society on the possible effects of social media on youth. They studied the behavior of the child both in the preadolescent stage (10-12 years) and the adolescents (13-17 years). They monitored how and the length of time spent on any medial social platforms for their dependant variable to measure their impacts on the emotional wellbeing of the adolescents. According to the hypothesis, social media has positive effects on adolescents using it with the conscience that it could harm them and negative impacts on those posting and following creations recklessly. The results of the study indicate that social media helps the youth in battling loneliness through the identification of friends, creating and maintaining meaningful intimate relationships. While some teens benefit substantially from social media, the research shows that others develop relational issues with their immediate people around them and end up in terrible and reckless lifestyles due to dependence. Also, social media can impacts boys positively more than girls. Although teens from both genders may use social media on similar platforms and pace, boys tend to benefit more than girls. The study does not provide the reasons for the decisive advantage of social media use on boys and the likelihood of a negative impact on girls despite its substantial support to the hypothesis. We could understand the implications better and gain more knowledge with an explanation of the origin of the varying effect on the different genders. This research is useful to the paper because it shows the results positive and negative impact of social media on teens depending on the time spent and the content in question.
Radovic et al. intended to bridge an understanding of the impact of social media use of depressed adolescents. They researched the use of social media on 23 teens (18 females and 5 males) diagnosed with depression. The dependant variable, different media platforms, measured how they can be influenced and also how they can influence psychological issues like stress. The hypothesis revealed the use of social media has both positive and negative effects on depressed adolescents compared to teens who kept off the media during such health conditions. The study reveals that searching for positive impacting content for humor, entertainment, and content creations helped the victims battling with depression to cure faster than depending on the medication only for recovery. However, the study found out that engagement has negative impacts on adolescents. Despite the help of a quicker recovery process, social media can indulge risky behaviors such as cyberbullying and generate a self-comparison loop for the teens. Besides, the teens have to share, and the only thing for the ailing individuals could be stressed posting that could iterate to hate feelings and low self-esteem if probably the targeted population did not respond as anticipated. Hence, the medical treatment context shows that the use of social media depressed adolescents is more negatively than positively impacting. However, the study could have presented all adolescents better with equal numbers of their representation in research rather than using more females than males. Future studies could avoid bias by collecting data using a similar number of individuals from each gender. This study is relevant to the assignment since it gives the impacts of social media use on teenagers.
Siddiqui and Singh wanted to enlarge our understanding of aspects of social media and their impacts not only on youngsters but also on society at large. They indulged in s study on the positive and negative effects of social media use on youngsters generally. Instead of focusing on a particular group of teens, they looked into the percentage use of different media platforms by the demographic. They researched on cell phone texting-72%, other channels such as Face book- 73% and online video watching sites like Youtube-63%. The hypothesis for the study revealed that youths spent more than 50% of their time on social media. However, the impact depends on the type of engagement with media platforms. The results reveal that youngsters can stay connected with their mates, exchange useful information, and find online support that may lack in traditional relations, get answers for their career goals and acquire advice on the vital development stage. Also, social media use has negative impacts on teens such as the engagement with strangers whom they do not know their motive on the media where some adolescents can be lured to meeting potentially dangerous individuals, reading of inappropriate blogs that influence adolescents to aspects like violence and wastage of most time on chatting, which can be harmful to their health. Although the study gives a clear insight into the effects of social media on teens, it does not provide exact data to identify the impacts on a certain number of the population. Future studies will be excellent with the provision of precise figure...