Effects of Social Networking Sites on Teenagers Essay | For class 10

(609 Words): Human beings are basically social in way of living, behaving and interacting among themselves and towards other living and non-living creatures of the globe. Socialising process through networking sites is creating virtual falsehood platform in this online age. Trust and reality of human persona are losing ground. Everyone of digital world remains in doubt of his reality. Teenagers have become addicted of social media because of convenience of sharing own feelings with other. As they hesitate to share those feelings; when they meet physically. The highest drawbacks of social networking are that everyone has to digest unwanted shared photo or contents that are not needed at the time it should to be.

The teenagers waste their valuable time whereas other school or college tasks remain more important to them. Social networking sites are creating misleading virtual relationship and friendship among teenagers. It doesn't mean that social sites are bad but it is we; who are getting damaged by way of interacting with social media in an uncontrolled fashion. Just like overdose is injurious to our body, in same way overusing social media is dangerous to us. It has been noticed that teenagers are using, chatting and posting photographs and contents on regular basis. They are also showcasing themselves as more technical among their friends and family; which has no value for them. Hackers are   impersonating teenagers for trapping their personal information and misusing their personal data. As involvements with internet social media have got increased therefore teenagers are becoming weak physically. Cyber bullying is creating mental threat in teenagers by few bad element of school or college. As teenagers attend social site daily, they have to take unnecessary hatred words, tension and cyber threat. In totality simplicity 

of teenagers' life is disappeared and they are in complex lifestyle situation. Sometimes they create online friendship but on dating their persona don't match then they get disturbed mentally. It has also been observed that photo of few girls have become viral from social sites and it has been edited to make it naked for taking revenge. And the girl remains unaware of this. His personal life may get damaged.   In past time there are many examples of love story started on Orkut and have resulted to suicide. After these types of accident parents remains surprised about the event that stopped their lives. It is one of the most important tasks of today's time to remain acquainted of their son or daughter's social activity on the networking sites. It is better to restrict them from social sites up to the age of maturity.

How to check social networking sites activity of teenagers: 

It is very simple. Always use branded version of Operating System like Window 7 etc and activate Family Safety on the window. For actuating family safety, one has to create an email account on Hotmail. Thus he gets benefits of Window Live Essential. There are many tools to make social sites unavailable for teenagers. There is weekly reporting for getting on Hotmail and thus one can get weekly or monthly report on his smart phone email box. There are many parameters and data of the websites that usually had been seen by user; who is under family safety.

It doesn't mean that the teenagers are to be distracted from Internet, because today is the age of smart learning. If anyone does so then his children may remain in last queue of success. One cannot ignore electronic media in this century. It just needs monitoring of electronic media to keep what is going on. 

One needs to look after his wards just it is being done in real life.

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