Do you think social media is good for teens?

Social media is a platform that facilitates people to have conversations, share information, and create web sites in virtual communities around the world. Social media plays a big role in teen culture nowadays. Most teenagers are online almost nine hours a day. Definitely, it gives positive and negative effects 

Social media has many advantages. One of the advantages is improving teenager’s social skills. As technology advances, teenagers prefer to have an interaction with others online than meet face to face. Social media also creates online identities and builds social networks. In addition, it can be used for entertainment and self expression, teens nowadays often feel stress from many aspects. Usually, they use social media as a place to refresh their mind.

However, social media also has negative effects, some experts worry that teens are more anxious and have lower self-esteem because of social media and texting. Also, there are so many cyberbullying that happen, it can make a lot of teens depressed or have anxiety. And then, social media can make teenagers addicted to staying on their phone to access social media. Because of social media, they can avoid people around them and are distracted from learning. Social media can make teens lose the ability for face-to-face interaction.

As you can see, there are different advantages and disadvantages of social media for teens. We can’t conclude if it is good or bad for teens. It depends on how they use and manage the use of social media.  Also, all of the parents must protect and pay attention to their children while using social media. The challenge is to learn how to take the advantages and throw the disadvantages of social media while minimizing the identified risks.